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Sue Repko
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Writer. Book Coach. Teacher. Binder. Essays in The Manifest Station, Hippocampus, Brevity Blog, The Independent, Hazlitt, MicroLit Almanac. https://linktr.ee/suerepko
Huge gratitude to @jenpastiloff and @manifest-station for publishing my latest essay, "What To Do With The Bodies?"
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What To Do With The Bodies? | The Manifest Station
I was fourteen years old and The Firefighter was twenty-three when I got lost in his smoldering ash eyes. I don’t remember how it started.
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February 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What does it really mean to a local economy if the National Park Service staff is no longer available to issue backcountry permits this summer?
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What if there's no one to issue backpacking & rafting permits this summer?
Colorado adventure guide explains the ripple effect on local businesses
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February 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did on J6
February 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Rump, MuskRat, the Republican Party & the billionaires hard at work. #itsacoup
February 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Hey writer friends! Here are some thoughts on quickly orienting readers to the worlds you are recreating in your flash nonfiction. Spots still open in my six-week online flash memoir class starting Jan. 27 through Project Write Now. #amwriting #cnf #flashmemoir projectwritenow.org/writers-inst...
Flash Memoir: Using Markers of Time and Place to Ground Readers - pwn wi
Learn three powerful techniques for grounding readers in your flash memoir: time-specific titles, strategic scene-setting, and anchoring.
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January 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Just freshened up my website! I am an editor, book coach, and award-winning essayist, offering trauma-informed feedback to other writers working on personal narratives. Please reach out if you think I can help. Wishing you all the right words, in just the right order, in 2025!
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January 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
ot sure I can make this in person--because lunch with friends!--but I am signing up for this. Definitely need some support in organizing my (writing) life at this moment!
"Small steps. Doable steps. Use a verb. Pick a time. Set your tools. And…forgive yourself. You’re writing a book, not coal-mining."

Join me Jan 15th for Organize Your Writing Life - How to Balance Structure and Creativity, and get your writing year in gear!
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Organize Your Writing Life with Allison K Williams | Jane Friedman
Learn how to set manageable goals and stay focused on your project despite the demands of work, family and home.
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January 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Readers crave vivid description, but details that don’t advance the emotional river of a story can clog the reader’s mind with unneeded flotsam. Wednesday at 3 PM EST, learn how details, when done carefully, can gain power, & become the story itself. #memoir #fiction
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All Details Are Not Equal: The Power of Movement and Desire in Literary Description - CRAFT TALKS
Readers crave vibrant descriptions of people and places, but all details are not equal! Active, emotion-based details can advance your story’s deepest, most compelling currents.
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January 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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We are now accepting submissions for our Short Nonfiction Contest. We are fortunate and excited to have Lucy Ives as this year's final judge!

Find all the guidelines here:
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November 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” - James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 12:08 PM
November 19, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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In this week's Short Reads, Dinty W. Moore (@dintywmoore.bsky.social) remembers the sounds of his childhood in just 183 words.

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#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir
There Was a Time in My Life When I Knew
by Dinty W. Moore | The soundscape of a childhood.
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November 13, 2024 at 5:23 PM