Huge gratitude to @jenpastiloff and @manifest-station for publishing my latest essay, "What To Do With The Bodies?"
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What if there's no one to issue backpacking & rafting permits this summer? Colorado adventure guide explains the ripple effect on local businesses

What does it really mean to a local economy if the National Park Service staff is no longer available to issue backcountry permits this summer?
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did on J6

Rump, MuskRat, the Republican Party & the billionaires hard at work. #itsacoup

Flash Memoir: Using Markers of Time and Place to Ground Readers - pwn wi Learn three powerful techniques for grounding readers in your flash memoir: time-specific titles, strategic scene-setting, and anchoring.

Hey writer friends! Here are some thoughts on quickly orienting readers to the worlds you are recreating in your flash nonfiction. Spots still open in my six-week online flash memoir class starting Jan. 27 through Project Write Now. #amwriting #cnf #flashmemoir projectwritenow.org/writers-inst...

Just freshened up my website! I am an editor, book coach, and award-winning essayist, offering trauma-informed feedback to other writers working on personal narratives. Please reach out if you think I can help. Wishing you all the right words, in just the right order, in 2025!
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ot sure I can make this in person--because lunch with friends!--but I am signing up for this. Definitely need some support in organizing my (writing) life at this moment!

All Details Are Not Equal: The Power of Movement and Desire in Literary Description - CRAFT TALKS Readers crave vibrant descriptions of people and places, but all details are not equal! Active, emotion-based details can advance your story’s deepest, most compelling currents.

Readers crave vivid description, but details that don’t advance the emotional river of a story can clog the reader’s mind with unneeded flotsam. Wednesday at 3 PM EST, learn how details, when done carefully, can gain power, & become the story itself. #memoir #fiction
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I Can’t Watch the World Burn, Because the Fire Will Burn Me First The image circulating across social media — a group of Black women calmly drinking coffee atop a skyscraper while the city burns below —…

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The Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest is now accepting submissions. This light blue and white graphic shows an author photo of this year's final judge Lucy Ives.

We are now accepting submissions for our Short Nonfiction Contest. We are fortunate and excited to have Lucy Ives as this year's final judge!

Find all the guidelines here:
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” - James Baldwin

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There Was a Time in My Life When I Knew by Dinty W. Moore | The soundscape of a childhood.

In this week's Short Reads, Dinty W. Moore (@dintywmoore.bsky.social) remembers the sounds of his childhood in just 183 words.

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