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Weeping for Amelia Earhart

Have you heard the latest about Amelia Earhart? That new evidence suggests she managed to land the plane and survived? That she radioed for help, and her messages were written off as hoaxes? If you haven’t heard, go read this.

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Writer, with Kids: Susan Woodring

Susan Woodring is the author of a novel, Goliath, and a short story collection, Springtime on Mars. Her short fiction has appeared in Isotope, Passages North, turnrow, and Surreal South, among other anthologies and literary magazines. Age of kids: 9

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Homeschooling the public school kid

Oregon public schools are in serious crisis mode. I know this isn’t a unique situation. Public education has been undermined by political policy across the nation for years now. (Why does a certain segment of those in power want the

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Writer, with Kids: Lauren Acampora

Lauren Acampora, author of short stories published in The Paris Review, Antioch Review, New England Review, and other journals. Age of kid: Amity, 2 years What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that

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Revisions, revisions, revisions…

Yesterday I shipped off a freelance proofreading job–my last job until I finish the publisher-requested revisions to The Revolution of Every Day and turn the manuscript back in. Billy and I talked it over and agreed that I need to

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Writer, with Kids: Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, Year of Wonders, March, and others I became a novelist because I had a child. I’d been a foreign correspondent for over a decade, in the Mideast, Africa

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Poultry Pomp and Circumstance

Our girls have moved outside to their coop. I carried them out one by one. I imagine it was the first time any of them had been outside in their lives. It was kind of like chicken graduation. First out

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Writer, with Kids: Emma Wunsch

Emma Wunsch’s short stories have been published in: Lit, The Brooklyn Review, The Bellevue Review, Fugue, J Journal, and Natural Bridge. She is currently revising a YA novel. Age of kids: Georgia 3.5 and Dahlia 22 months What was your

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Big Editorial Meeting

It happened this morning. It went well. Very well. The only way it could have gone better is if they’d offered me a million bucks and a contract on the spot and a guarantee that I’d win the Pulitzer next

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1. This week, one of my top-choice publishers requested revisions on The Revolution of Every Day. We’ll be talking about it on Tuesday. I’m stuck somewhere between excited and terrified, because I have no idea what changes they’ll ask for,

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