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"Write What You Know" is Not Good Writing Advice

Kate Southwood Offers a Warning to Young Writers

By Kate Southwood | May 16, 2017

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Sharecropper Emma Woods on Meeting James Agee

Archival video from Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

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Poet Alan Felsenthal Brings the Light With Him

The Lowly Author on Joy, Regret, and Ghosts

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A Muslim YA Author on Belonging at a Tennessee Book Festival

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In <em>Kintu</em>, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

In Kintu, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

How Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel Offers an Important Corrective

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Ballast, Grounding, Subject Matter: On Writers and Their Mothers

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On the Books We Read (and Write) to Get By

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Death Shall Have No Dominion Over the Literature of Grief

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Stephanie Powell Watts on Writing Hard Times in Small Towns

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