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Micro-Change

Over the last three months, TRUE called for micro-essays that recounted conversations that bridged two opposing view points. Sharing a true story requires courage.This “BRIDGES”..
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A Work in Progress

It’s 3 a.m., my witching hour. Miss K, my therapist, calls it the “common hour” because apparently so many people are awake at this time..
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off with the truth

Book Sellers keep asking me how old I am. They cup my elbows in their bony lady fingers and whisper, can I ask you a..
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The Book Doctor

This spring, I sent the vomit draft of my memoir to what I will call a “Book Doctor.” A trained specialist who came highly recommended...
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Yes All Afghan Women

Free Women Writers is a non-profit, non-partisan, and all-volunteer collective of writers, students, and activists based in Afghanistan and the diaspora, all working for a more..
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On Writing the Other

In a recent blog post for Ploughshares, Emilia Phillips described how the news had begun its tangle through her subconscious like kudzu, but she felt..
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the weapons in our lives

In times of trauma, tragedy, and unrest art becomes even more important. Creativity allows us to cope with and make sense of that which often..
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Shaping a Memoir from Essays

Back in the mid-eighties, I read Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York — a novel in stories. As a novice fiction writer, a novel-in-stories seemed..
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Salaam Shalom

As a religious and cultural minority, the aftermath of the recent election had left me feeling vulnerable and very much alone. The waves of anti-Semitic..
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Wandering, Writing, and a Return

It was the first (and only) class I didn’t try to skip. My teacher’s name was Larry and he had freckles and short spokes of..