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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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craft essay Archive

May 13, 2019

“What Are You Doing?” and Other Questions to Ask Your Characters

By Ruth Joffre

In my second year of graduate school, I attended a reading by Charles Baxter, who was at that time a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. This was in […]

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