Tag: Grief

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Love the Creature

“And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it…But this is for myself; my readers..
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A Glimmer of Hope Among the Ruins

Shannon Tsonis talks with Kristine Ervin and reflects on her new book, Rabbit Heart, a memoir not unlike her own.
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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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When the Writing Is the Grieving

After the death of her husband, Dominque Conway reflects on words, grief, and writing.
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Finding Solace Among the Birds: A Conversation with Joshua McKerrow About Making Art from Grief

Megan Reilley and Photojournalist Joshua McKerrow discuss "Today's Birds," and the act of creating through grief.
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A Conversation with Melanie Brooks

I first met Melanie Brooks, author of Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma, at The Iota Short Prose Conference in the..
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Monsters

As a five-year-old, I had this recurring nightmare about a giant, hairy monster lumbering down the street towards my bedroom window. If you’re of a..