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The Writing Life: How Teaching Helped Me Reclaim My Voice

Olga Katsovskiy explores getting over the writer's block she faced after her dad's death through teaching others to "find the question that needs to be answered."
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Meeting the Complexity of Grief

Pam Anderson shows how B.J. Hollars takes on the complex task of writing about grief without sounding cliche or trite in his memoir, Year of Plenty: A Family's Season of Grief.
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Catnapping

We have 40 miles to drive, and this is the back seat configuration: parent, adult child, parent. I duck my head and get in first. Mom squeezes in from the driver’s side, then Dad from the passenger’s side.
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Writing My Truth

My son is doing that thing with his fingers. He’s done it his whole life whenever something makes him anxious—the top of his pointer finger..
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The Root of the Writing

Sharon & David Mathews are a mother and son duo from Chicago. The pair recently started co-writing poetry and recently published their first poems. They..