Issue #74, Moments of Clarity
Winter 2021
Creative Nonfiction #74: "Moments of Clarity" features stories of sudden realizations, things that can’t be unsaid, and power dynamics laid bare: a seventeen-year-old flirts her way into trouble; a daughter’s offhand remark shatters a family’s fragile peace; an employee quietly decides HR’s focus on diversity is actually kind of racist, and more.
Also in this issue: epiphanies in nonfiction, legal advice for writers, and tiny truths.
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"What's the Story" by Lee Gutkind
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"El Valle" by Aurelia Kessler
An early lesson in strength and fragility -
"The Desert Was His Home" by Eric L. Muller
There are many things we don't know about Mr. Otomatsu Wada, and a few things we do
Table of Contents
What's the Story #74 Lee Gutkind ... read more
The Turning Point of All Things Randon Billings Noble
El Valle, 1991 Aurelia Kessler ... read more
The Sea Mackenzie Branson
In the Matter of Alice Berkley Caitlin Horrocks
Nemesis Baņuta Rubess
Quantum Physics for Mothers Susan McCarty
Women's Work Eileen Garvin
Sorry, Dada Liz Iversen
Latinx Heritage Month Melissa Lujan Mesku
The Desert Was His Home Eric L. Muller ... read more
What Will We Do for Fun Now? Jane Ratcliffe
Law 101 for Writers
The Resume Catherine Elcik
Contributors
Randon Billings Noble
Randon Billings Noble is an essayist. Her collection Be with Me Always was published by the University of Nebraska Press in March 2019, and... read more
Mackenzie Branson
Mackenzie Branson is an editor at JuxtaProse and has a degree in English and creative writing. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her... read more
Catherine Elcik
Catherine Elcik is a writer and tutor in Winthrop, Massachusetts, who usually writes fiction about misfits and subcultures. She holds a BA... read more
Eileen Garvin
Eileen Garvin is the author of the novel The Music of Bees, which is forthcoming from Dutton, and the memoir How to Be a Sister: A Love... read more
Lee Gutkind
Lee Gutkind, recognized by Vanity Fair as “the Godfather behind creative nonfiction,” is the founder and editor of Creative... read more
Caitlin Horrocks
Caitlin Horrocks is author of the novel The Vexationsand the story collections Life Among the Terranauts(forthcoming 2021) and This Is Not... read more
Liz Iversen
Liz Iversen's essays have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and elsewhere. read more
Aurelia Kessler
Aurelia Kessler lives in Alaska, where she works at her local public library. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including... read more
Susan McCarty
Susan McCarty's essays have appeared in Ecotone, the Iowa Review, Utne Reader, and elsewhere. She is the author of the story collection... read more
Melissa Lujan Mesku
Melissa Lujan Mesku is an engineer and the creator of the recursive literary project ➰➰➰. Her writing has appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly,... read more
Eric L. Muller
Eric L. Muller has been studying and writing about the removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans for more than two decades. He is a... read more
Jane Ratcliffe
Jane Ratcliffe's work has appeared in the Sun, O, The Oprah Magazine, Longreads, Guernica, Vogue, New England Review, the... read more
Baņuta Rubess
Baņuta Rubess is a writer and director with a string of innovative productions to her credit for audiences in Europe and Canada. One of the... read more
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