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I think that it’s helpful to imagine your own people as your primary audience even when you are also writing for an audience that doesn’t necessarily belong to this community.
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Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”
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Contributors to A MAP IS ONLY ONE STORY share reading recommendations.
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FIERCE WOMXN WRITING is designed to help writers “level up” their writing.
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Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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“I was moved to write the unspeakable and unsayable.”
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Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreWhat American teenager hasn’t wanted to run away from an unhappy home?
...more“After the phone call, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But on getting there, I couldn’t sit or kneel or pray, out of excitement.”
...moreGrace Talusan reviews Masha Gessen’s fascinating but hard look at the decision to get a preventive mastectomy, in the context of Talusan’s own decision to get a preventive mastectomy.
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