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Issue 73 Memoir
Fall 2020
This issue celebrates stories of the self in the world. Writers find (or, at least, try to find) meaning in familiar as well as unimaginable moments—the loves, losses, and joys that define our lives.
Also in this issue: the seductive dangers of self-mythologizing, the memoir-in-pieces, tiny truths, and more.
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True Story, Issue #35
"Not Your Ordinary Experience of Desire" by Susannah Borysthen-Tkacz and Justin Chen
In True Story #35, a poignant post-mortem of a four-year relationship, told in alternating voices, becomes a catalog of unmet needs and wants … and a path to a hopeful future.
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Issue 72 Games
Fall 2019
Play is serious business! In Creative Nonfiction #72: "Games," writers connect with friends, family, and strangers to play Hanabi and hide-and-seek, mah-jongg and make-believe. Online or in-person, they explore other worlds, try on new ways of being, and find unexpected meaning.
Plus: what writers can learn from video game audience research; the importance of rhythm in prose; Procrastination Bingo; and much more.
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True Story, Issue #34
"Plume: An Investigation" by Mary Heather Noble
In True Story #34, “Plume,” a former environmental investigator applies her forensic skills to a family mystery. What happens to us when we are exposed to toxicity, both literally and figuratively? Can we change what we pass on to our kids? And at what cost?
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Issue 71 Let's Talk About Sex
Summer 2019
In Creative Nonfiction #71: "Let's Talk about Sex," writers invite us to share some of their most intimate moments—first times, last times, and everything in between. By turns joyous, hopeful, playful, wistful, and sometimes even uncomfortable, the stories in this issue expand our understanding of how—and why—people (and houseflies and sea urchins) “do it.”
Plus: five tips for great sex (writing); the eroticism of essaying; the art of the long sentence; tiny truths; and more.
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True Story, Issue #33
"My Monument" by Ander Monson
Surrounded by his neighbors’ maximalist holiday display—104 inflatable Christmas decorations in all, with not a repetition among them—Ander Monson ponders the history of spectacle and considers the meaning of community. Then, he orders a two-story-tall Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to stand among the desert plants of his Tucson front yard.
Online Reading
The Truth Is I Never Left You
V. Alexandra Lytton Regalado
A young girl's seat assignment on the plane ride to America changes everything.
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The Ink that Binds
Sheryl St. Germain
Could requiring community service help creative writing MFA programs become less elitist?
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Encounters
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Patricia Hampl has not lost her sense of wonder
Artwork
Ruminating, Research, and Realizing
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"I have always felt that my mission as an illustrator is to honor the work of past luminaries while creating works that reflect my own era’s thinking."
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