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A craft essay on how writers can best depict rural America without resorting to “poverty porn.”

A book of nonfiction written like a novel, moving with and then past the genre of true crime

22.1 contributor Zoe Ballering discusses life spans and storytelling.

A complex essay by Debra Spark in which the story told is someone else’s, a woman who learns about her mother’s past

Former Assistant Editor Lily Davenport interviews author Lydi Conklin about writing for queer readers, drawing comics, and more.

Brenna Womer’s powerful visual erasures of her mother’s letters.

“Running into [Martha] in the bookfairs of various AWP conferences over the years was like catching a jolt of open sky amid the general fog of crowds and schmoozing.”

Only an elite few stories take up residence in your memory as visceral reading experiences. Brett Hymel Jr.’s “Self-Care” is one such story.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan, writer for Autostraddle and a poet.

title taken from Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem I walked like a rage into the body of my life, which insisted the end of grief camein the fulfillment of desire, but desire, like loneliness, is a hunger    it willcome back       I muzzled grief            I desired with a desire beyond desireI repeated the word until it grew …