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My Father’s Obituary by Ty Stumpf

by JHow May 20, 2013

My Father’s Obituary My father kept a folder labeled “When I Die” in his desk. The top sheets, a two-page typed autobiography with a blank for the last date. His [...]

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Writers on Writing #39: Brandon Peters

by JHow May 15, 2013

Palmetto Rose, or What Showing Up, Revision, Practice, and Knowing Your Audience Really Looks Like He starts with the palmetto leaf, long and lean. Three dozen more rest in a [...]

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The Belle Isle Mermaid and the Rumrunner by Mary Alice Rapas

by JHow May 13, 2013

Deep at the bottom of the Detroit River, far beyond the reach of any tow truck or junkyard, there is an underwater graveyard of cars. Many of the sunken vehicles [...]

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Poetry prize winners selected!

by JHow May 13, 2013

Guest judge Aimee Nezhukumatathil has selected Vandana Khanna’s “Prayer to Recognize the Body” as this year’s Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize winner. Khanna’s first book won the Crab Orchard Review First [...]

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Writers on Writing #38: Richard Hackler

by JHow May 6, 2013

On Writing Things that Not Very Many People Will Read I was watching a friend sing at the bar the other night. This was a Wednesday. There are drink specials [...]

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New Year’s Breakfast by Michael Cuglietta

by JHow May 2, 2013

I knew something wasn’t right when I pulled into the driveway. The porch light, which my mother always kept on for me, was off. The shades were flickering blue like [...]

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No Cell Can Hold by Ross McMeekin

by JHow April 30, 2013

One midsummer morning, out in the middle of his acreage, a farmer peeled back the tough, grainy leaves of a fresh husk of corn, expecting to find inside a developing [...]

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Writers on Writing #37: Jacob M. Appel

by JHow April 22, 2013

The Long Hello By any literary standard, I am having a good year. Ten months ago, despite two decades of trying, I had not managed to sell a full-length manuscript [...]

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Passages North’s nonfiction contest winners announced!

by JHow April 17, 2013

Congratulations to the winners of Passages North’s 2013 Thomas Hrushka Memorial Nonfiction Prize! Contest judge Elena Passarello has selected the as the winner Brandon Davis Jennings’ essay, “I Am the [...]

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Writers on Writing #36: Julia Shipley

by JHow April 16, 2013

I. Writing from the Ox-house A human life is like a single letter in the alphabet. It can be meaningless. Or it can be part of a great meaning —Jewish [...]

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