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Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes

How The Cult of Masculinity Can Poison Creative Writing Programs

by Aaron Gilbreath September 20, 2019October 19, 2022

There are numerous ways to tell stories. In her turn MFA program, one writer encountered a literary culture that espoused gendered aesthetics and fostered toxic masculinity.

Posted inArts & Culture, education, Nonfiction, Quotes

It’s Not a Literary Renaissance When You’ve Been Telling Stories Since the Dawn of Time

by Aaron Gilbreath March 5, 2018October 19, 2022

A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Portrait of the Artist as a Single Mom

by Sari Botton January 2, 2018October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, created with support from the non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Stephanie Land chronicles her struggle to support herself and her two daughters while attending college and trying to make a living as a writer.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Disguised in Plain Clothes, but No Superman

by Sari Botton September 5, 2017October 19, 2022

After a shooting at Iowa State, Chris Wiewiora let his teaching contract there expire, and chose to instead drive a municipal bus. His passengers were often former students.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story

Woman of Color in Wide Open Spaces

by Minda Honey March 29, 2017October 19, 2022

While visiting national parks to detox from the oppressive whiteness of the MFA experience, Minda Honey is reminded the only places to retreat from whiteness in this country are the spaces women of color hold for each other.

Posted inEssays & Criticism

Woman of Color in Wide Open Spaces

by Minda Honey March 29, 2017October 19, 2022

While visiting national parks to detox from the oppressive whiteness of the MFA experience, Minda Honey is reminded the only places to retreat from whiteness in this country are the spaces women of color hold for each other.

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