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A collective blog from a group of diverse writers with more than 50 books and hundreds of articles, poems and prose pieces published between them. Writers include: author Pam Grout, Kansas poet laureates Denise Low and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, travel writer Beth Reiber, magazine writer Susan Kraus, children's book writer Mary Margaret Howe, blogger and writer Mary Howe, and fiction writer Mary Wharff.
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A Wing and a Page: Notes on the Writing Life

English - Writing, Personal Growth, Social Change
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A Wing and a Page · 8M ago

What lies behind and ahead

What lies behind and ahead. Like this:Be the first to like this post.
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A Wing and a Page · 1Y ago

Full moon Friday, and November is drawing to a close.

It’s halfway through Novel Writing November
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A Wing and a Page · 1Y ago

The Transformative Power of Our Stories

I recently was interviewed by Katharine Hansen’s excellent blog, A Storied Career, on the transformative power of our stories, making a living through the language arts, and how Transformative Language Arts has helped people create careers doing work they love and helping their communities fin...
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A Wing and a Page · 1Y ago

The Imaginary Friend of the Page

Here’s an essay I recently wrote on writing as a spiritual practice, posted at the very fine The Spirit of  a Woman website. The website is full of stories that inspire and question, open us up to possibilities and help us see where we’ve traveled.
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A Wing and a Page · 1Y ago

Needle in the Bone: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s New Blog

My book-in-process, Needle in the Bone , explores the against-all-odds stories of a Holocaust survivor, Lou Frydman, and a Polish resistance fighter, Jarek Piekalkewicz, who each started their lived in Poland and ended up being fast friends in Kansas. Based on extensive interviews, historical resear...
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A Wing and a Page · 1Y ago

In Search of Goodness: Diane Silver’s New Blog

Our own Diane Silver has embarked upon a brave and essential project: searching for goodness through a year-long blog mapping her search in addition to interviews with all the usual and unusual suspects, from evangelical Christians to Sufi leaders to hate group researchers to community activists to ...
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A Wing and a Page · 2Y ago

My Own Private J.D. Salinger

The recent death of J.D. Salinger motivated me to read The Catcher in the Rye again, turning back to not only a great work of literature but to a part of my life that felt like a movie I must have watched rather than my own past. I found my dog-eared paperback in the basement [...]
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A Wing and a Page · 2Y ago

Invoking the Invisible: March Write From Your Life

Reprinted from Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s blog. For a podcast of this month’s column, please click here. One of the main things we writers do is to make the invisible — at least the unnoticed — visible. Through images that speak to our senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and sound, we create tr...
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A Wing and a Page · 2Y ago

The Courage of Miep Gies

In addition to the well-known story of Anne Frank and her diary, writers and those who love books should consider the pivotal role of Miep Gies in ensuring that we know about Anne Frank in the first place. Miep was the woman who, among a handful of brave souls, helped to hide the Frank family [...]
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A Wing and a Page · 2Y ago

Anne Frank and the Craft of Writing

If you thought that Anne Frank was a gifted young woman who spontaneously wrote a diary that changed the world, think again. Anne deliberately crafted her journal as a work of art and had a strong sense of audience when doing so. I strongly recommend Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife by ...
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