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You Are The Protagonist: Memory and Memoir
Sheree L. Greer
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Story Basics Boot Camp
Katie McDougall
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Writing the Senses: Beyond "Sensory Detail"
Lee Conell
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Foundations of Creative Nonfiction
AM Ringwalt
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Finding Humor in the Pain
Natalie Lima
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Immigrants Write
Nina Adel
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Putting the Narrative in Narrative Nonfiction
Minda Honey
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Writing Into and Beyond Grief with Visiting Writer Jenny Qi
Jenny Qi
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Tiny Fables and Other Everyday Magic
Catherine Moore
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Foundations of Fiction
Eliana Ramage
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Intro to Short Fiction
Lucas Schaefer
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Finding Your YA Voice
Stewart Lewis
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Storytelling 101
Michael McRay
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American Bodies and Political Poems
Meg Wade
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Look Closer: Writing the Familiar Object
Julia Ridley Smith
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Nuestras historias
Melanie Márquez Adams
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Social Media Workshop for Writers
Kim Baldwin
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Writing the Fragment
AM Ringwalt
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Apr 9
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Virtue and Villainy in Stories About Home with Visiting Writer Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon
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From Page to Publication: Self-Publishing 101
Cecelia Tichi
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Origin Stories
Michael McRay
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Accessing The Personal Narrative Through Traditional Stories
Jamie Figueroa
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A Mind for Metaphor
Julie Sumner
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Pick a Platform: Building Brand for Writers
Sara Wigal
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The Lyric Essay
Gary McDowell
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Reading (and Prepping) Your Work Like An Editor
Paula Whyman
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Intermediate Short Story
Loie Rawding
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Writing the Body
Lydia Peelle
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Novel Jumpstart
Mary Adkins
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Create and Calm: Writing as a Mindfulness Practice
Melissa Jean
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Going There: Memoir and Scene
Sheree L. Greer
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Queer Writing
Eliana Ramage
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So You Want To Be A Travel Writer
Margaret Littman
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Paths to Picture Book Publication
Tonya Abari
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Speculative Poetry: The Basics and Beyond
Amie Whittemore
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The Nature of Death: A Series on Grief and Healing Through Landscape
Meg Wade
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The Art and Craft of the Sentence
Freya Sachs
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Self-Editing Picture Books
Tonya Abari
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Rise to the Top (of the Poetry Slush Pile)
Kristin Robertson
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The Origins of the Original with Visiting Writer Rebecca Makkai
Rebecca Makkai
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Inside Out: Writing the Interior Self in Narrative Non-Fiction
Jane Marcellus
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The First Twenty Pages of Your Novel
Ginger Eager
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The Divine Refine: Radical Revision in Fiction and Non-Fiction
Loie Rawding
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