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Community and Resistance: The Writing Process as an Antidote to Upheaval

“A whole civilization will die tonight.” This upsetting nugget was delivered to me during a bit of early-morning social media scrolling, and it may have..
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Craft in Conversation: Following the Scent of the Story with Hyeseung Song

Hyeseung Song demonstrates incredible love through truth-telling in her debut memoir Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Docile explores Hyeseung’s..
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Between the Claim and the Designation

Criticism has long been imagined as a neutral sorting mechanism—a procedure through which the good is separated from the bad by something other than desire...
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Cracking Open: Accessing Vulnerability as an Emerging Writer

One thing people don’t tell you about college is how quickly you have to get used to crying in public. In high school, I had..
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Memoir in the Margins

The dance between journalism and memoir is like two old friends reconnecting at a party—there’s an awkwardness, a curiosity, and an undeniable chemistry. When I..
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The Writing is the Permanence

I stopped writing in my journal recently. Stopped cold. I convinced myself that I could dictate instead, to try and be 2x more productive, maybe..
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Daily Photographs

On a slower pace, writing, and realizing what time brings.
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The Conversations We Weren’t Meant to Hear

"As both a nonfiction writer and novelist, I've discovered that these overheard conversations contain the most authentic speech, revealing their generational differences and cultural identities."
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Writing on Memory, Considering When To Do So

"All genres have a central expectation, and that of memoir is wisdom," writes Kutlay in this meditation on history, memory, and writing about ourselves.
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Swim Lessons

[Runner-Up for the 2024 Proximity Prize] They checked our military IDs as they stood in camouflage outside our high school and slung M-16 machine guns around their shoulders. And their eyes lingered a little too long on shy, sophomore girls standing in line.