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Behind the Magic: Why Writing About Writing Works

By Andrea A. Firth

I’ve always wanted to know how a magician does the sawing a lady in half trick. I see her climb into the box, chat with the magician on one end, and wiggle her feet at the other. Then I hear the buzz saw and watch th...


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Brevity 81: On "With the Braves On, My Father Washes Me” and Finding the Right Form

By Josh Martin

The latest issue of Brevity Magazine, edited by Dinty W. Moore and Zoë Bossiere, is live, and some of our authors are writing for The Brevity Blog about their craft.

For nearly a decade, I t...


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A New Issue of Brevity: Essays on Love, Loss, and the Sweet Sting of What Could Never Be

Brevity literary magazine’s January issue features outstanding flash essays from writers Alex Sokol, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, Nicole Walker, Rocky Halpern, Sean Thomas Do...


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Writing Long: Unlocking Your Story with Deep Work

By Kathy McKernan

They say that one way to heal from past trauma is to write it down. The story. The facts. The things that happened. Pour the words onto a page, hand them to the universe, and move on. Write it out. Let it go.


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My Mother’s Red Pen and What I Did About It

By Heidi Croot

My mother was my first editor. Having wangled me into writing a weekly column about my high school doings for our village newspaper, she would sit at the kitchen table with her jubilant red pen and...


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