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Parallel Practice

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Parallel Practice explores the other practices and disciplines that inform but are separate from our writing practice. The essays highlight how the other things we choose to do with our one precious life allow us to think expansively, take risks, pursue technical excellence, show up for ourselves, and everything else that goes into generative work.

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Parallel Practice: How to Break a Sentence

  • Randle Browning
  • February 20, 2025
Which color might capture the word “would,” for example? And which stitch?
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Parallel Practice: Haunting in Theory/Haunting in Practice

  • Lauren Brazeal Garza
  • December 19, 2024
Salt is used for food, not purification. Candles should be burned for ambiance, not to manipulate energies.
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Parallel Practice: As Ever, Your Totem

  • Danielle Shi
  • October 17, 2024
The imaging tools beckoned to me, their still repose enticing in the periphery.
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Parallel Practice: Story at the End of My Fist

  • Button
  • August 22, 2024
I will throw a lot of punches. Thousands. Hurl my fist. Aim for the target. Do it over and over. Fail.
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Parallel Practice: Aftermath

  • Joshua Roebke
  • June 20, 2024
This is often all I need from it. To make sense of some immediate piece. To ease the ache of existence.
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