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Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

Courtney Maum Recommends Memoirs That Seesaw from Past to Present, Personal to Universal

By Courtney Maum | May 4, 2022

Courtney Maum on Finally Learning to Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

Courtney Maum on Finally Learning to Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

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Going to Dinner with Your Troll, and Other Tales of Writing Gone Viral

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Courtney Maum on Dealing with Internet Fame

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Small Acts: Finding Friendship with My Online Spanish Teacher

Small Acts: Finding Friendship with My Online Spanish Teacher

Courtney Maum on the Way Worlds Open Up Through Language

By Courtney Maum | July 12, 2019

Why I Founded an Interdisciplinary Retreat for Artists and Writers

Why I Founded an Interdisciplinary Retreat for Artists and Writers

Our mediums can be vastly enhanced by learning about someone else’s

By Courtney Maum | May 11, 2017

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