Columnists
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March 12, 2021Zoom Class: Omar El Akkad and the Challenges of Writing Resistance
By Shazia Hafiz RamjiSometimes there are Zoom meetings that can break you. Last week it took me five days to recover from the nausea, headaches, and light sensitivity caused by one single day of back-to-back virtual meetings. ...
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March 08, 2021On Giving Myself Permission Not to Write
By A.H. ReaumeI know I have to write it. The essay I’ve been trying to write for a year and a half.I will be in the grocery store or out in the muck of a hike dripping with sweat and a sentence of it will come to ...
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March 02, 2021BookTok: Shaping a Generation of Readers
By Ayesha MumalOpen Book and Word on the Street have partnered this year to bring new and innovative content to our readers and patrons. In an effort to share the ideas and experiences of a wider range of people in ...
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February 26, 2021Grinding Out a New Novel
By Waubgeshig RiceWriting a novel is a grind. It’s an arduous, meticulous, and often repetitive process that can take years. There’s the actual typing of words onto the page, and then come the edits and rewrites, which ...
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February 18, 2021Small gifts from writers: The power of writerly connections
By Chelene KnightOn one especially sunny day when I was a young girl sitting at my kitchen table scribbling stories on the backs of old receipts my mother left on the table, I closed my eyes, looked into the future, and ...
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February 16, 2021Book Therapy: The Centaur’s Wife
By Stacey May Fowles“It isn’t just her own survival she’s thinking about. She’s thinking about everyone else. That’s how they’re all going to survive—by thinking about everyone else.”—Amanda Leduc, The ...
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February 02, 2021Why We Need to Question “Hobbies” in the Pandemic
By Shazia Hafiz RamjiOn a rainy Thursday morning at the end of January 2021, I lay in bed staring at the ceiling for far too long... I couldn’t remember what I had done in 2020. I remember the past couple of years clearly: ...
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January 22, 2021Claiming Space for Indigenous Languages in English Literature
By Waubgeshig RiceEnglish is the language of the colonizer. It came with the arrival of settlers to what many people call Turtle Island, or North America. It is a relatively new language to this land, and has only been ...
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January 19, 2021Book Therapy: 100 Miles of Baseball
By Stacey May Fowles“Baseball is about connecting—with people we’ve just met, people we’ll never meet again, people we know, people we love and miss.”—Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs, 100 Miles of Baseball In ...
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January 14, 2021Achievable, Artistic Resolutions for Authors and Illustrators
By Naseem HrabI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love coming up with new year’s resolutions. I love committing to some kind of regular creative activity … no matter the outcome! Last year, I said ...
