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Tag Archives: Essay

Creative Nonfiction: The Righting Line by Elizabeth Muller

May 13, 2021by jmwwblog Leave a comment

There are waters I need to navigate, lessons I’ve begun to learn.

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Creative Nonfiction: One Mouth, Two Fingers, Fourteen Years by Kristine Langley Mahler

April 15, 2021by jmwwblog Leave a comment

There are no more grand reveals.

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On Craft: Want to Write a Better Sex Scene? What Fanfiction Taught Me That My MFA Missed by Jessica Jonas

April 1, 2021by jmwwblog 2 Comments

Writing a sex scene doesn’t have to be harder than writing any other scene in fiction.

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BIPOC MOTHERS AND NON-BINARY PARENTS, WE WANT YOUR NONFICTION (AND WE’LL PAY FOR IT)!

August 16, 2020by jmwwblog Leave a comment

Paid nonfiction opportunity for BIPOC writers!

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BIPOC Mothers and Non-binary Parents, We Want Your Nonfiction (and We’ll Pay for It)!

July 14, 2020by jmwwblog Leave a comment

Paid nonfiction opportunity for BIPOC writers!

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Calls for submission, Essay

Nonfiction: The Cellist by Kendra Stanton Lee

May 27, 2020by jmwwblog 1 Comment

Clara Schumann bore humans and great works of art. My childbearing years are over and I hope the same is not true for me of teaching.

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Essay: Almost Powerful by Rachel Laverdiere

April 22, 2020by jmwwblog Leave a comment

The changes in our trailer make me forget that I was always afraid before my cousins came.

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Nonfiction: My Hangover Killed Lou Reed by Richard Prins

October 16, 2019by jmwwblog 1 Comment

Like many lost weekends, mine started on Thursday. I was twenty-six years old by now, co-producing a Swahili hip-hop festival in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Essay: This Joker Who Wants to Kiss Your Mother by Maggie Dove

April 24, 2019by jmwwblog 1 Comment

There’s a certain hot rage when a man shows up at the door to take your mother on her first date since the divorce. The moment he says, “Hi, I’m […]

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Essay: The Mother Seal by Julia Rocchi

April 3, 2019by jmwwblog 1 Comment

Her shape—long, rotund, dark gray except where damp sand smears her pelt—is the first mass we see at Tunnels Beach on Kauai, Hawai’i.

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