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Announcing: summer online classes

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Announcing the 2020 Science as Story Fellowship Recipients

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What's the Story #73

From the Editor

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We're "Writing the Tough Stuff"

A new self-guided course starts April 20 more

Spring courses start March 30!

30-Minute Memoir, Boot Camp & much more more

Scrambled Eggs

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Life after brain injury

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COVID-19 & CNF

We're working remotely ... but we're working more

Write Your Book Proposal

A webinar with publishing expert Jane Friedman. more

Science As Story kicks off March 12

Lectures, intimate Q&As, webcasts, and more more

True Story #35 is here!

A poignant post-mortem of a four-year relationship, told in alternating voices. more

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Issue 75, Celebrating a Milestone
Spring 2021

The tremendous power of our small human lives more

What Is Creative Nonfiction?

Lee Gutkind

Picturing the Personal Essay: A Visual Guide

Tim Bascom

How to Write Like a Mother#^@%*&

Elissa Bassist & Cheryl Strayed

What's the Story #75

Lee Gutkind

Two Junes

Maxine Kumin

Immortal Ogallala

Mallory Barnes

Interview with Mary Paumier Jones

The Marrying Kind

Jane Bernstein

How Place Makes Us Human

Rachel Ann Brickner