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Cara Benson on Cutting Dead Weight and Keeping Readers Turning the Page

Cara Benson on Cutting Dead Weight and Keeping Readers Turning the Page

Cara Benson does not kill her darlings. When a sentence she loves stops earning its keep, she tucks it into...

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Zap, Pow, Bam: On Writing Flash Non/Fiction, By Cara Benson

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Zap, Pow, Bam: On Writing Flash Non/Fiction, By Cara Benson

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Anne Stuart on Opinion, Place, and Writing What Only You Can Say

Anne Stuart on Opinion, Place, and Writing What Only You Can Say

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Cara Benson on Cutting Dead Weight and Keeping Readers Turning the Page

Cara Benson on Cutting Dead Weight and Keeping Readers Turning the Page

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Blake Kimzey on This Podcast Will Change Your Life: Hope, Courage, and How WritingWorkshops.com Began

Blake Kimzey on This Podcast Will Change Your Life: Hope, Courage, and How WritingWorkshops.com Began

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Kritika Pandey on Writing Fiction That Outwits the Pattern

Kritika Pandey on Writing Fiction That Outwits the Pattern

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Student Publication News:

Michelle Boyer: From Workshop Prompt to Anthology Publication

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Celebrating The Best American Essays 2026

Celebrating The Best American Essays 2026

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Dan Robert's Debut Novel The Monster's Wife Sells to Dutton in a Pre-empt

Dan Robert's Debut Novel The Monster's Wife Sells to Dutton in a Pre-empt

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Alum Named a 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Poetry Fellow

Alum Named a 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Poetry Fellow

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