Venita Blackburn on being the flash fiction propagandist of her time and writing "How to Wrestle a Girl" for young women of color
Marie-Helene Bertino on how to honor the rules of storytelling while breaking the rules of physics
A companion reading and watching list to Marie-Helene Bertino's master class
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Support"Becoming Amish" by Rachel Ephraim, recommended by Electric Literature
The author on the unifying experience of reading Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" during an uncertain time
In reading colorblind to my children, I erased Peter’s Blackness from the story
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"Becoming Amish" by Rachel Ephraim, recommended by Electric Literature
"Reverse Takoyaki (How To Uncook An Octopus)" and "Quintet For Harvard Square," two poems by Haolun Xu
An excerpt from "Happy Hour" by Marlowe Granados, recommended by Alexandra Kleeman
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