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Newsletters / #023 In Case You Missed It

Emergence.

May 24, 2022

  • Anne McGrath

    Behold Invisibility

    The explosive force beneath New York City's steam clouds

    Issue 77

  • Erica Berry

    Beasts among Us

    On a trip to rural Wisconsin—the epicenter of werewolf sightings in the US—Erica Berry searches for the elusive Beast of Bray Road and the local author whose stories have helped keep the legend alive.

    True Story, Issue #13

  • Jill Christman

    Spinning

    For years, Jill Christman has been waiting for her long-lost lover to communicate with her from beyond the grave. Finally, he walks into her early-morning exercise class, setting her world awhirl.

    True Story, Issue #12

  • Ira Sukrungruang

    The Guggenheim Fellowship Career (Non-)Narrative Essay

    What if being a writer isn't a choice at all, but a state of mind?

    Issue 68

  • Bret Lott

    Against Technique

    I’ve been asked to write about fictive techniques and how they have informed my creative nonfiction, and now that I have begun, the truth is that I can tell you just about anything. 

    Issue 17

  • Megan Foss

    East of Everything

    I gained so much weight sitting in jail that my street clothes didn’t fit when they released me. I had to wear county-issue jeans and a T-shirt on the airplane I took out of California's Bay area that last time.

    Issue 13

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