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

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July 10, 2017

Getting Weird at the Chautauqua Institution

By Laura Maylene Walter

When I made plans to teach a workshop during the first week of the Chautauqua Institution’s season this summer, I wasn’t sure how my students might respond. After all, Chautauqua […]

July 26, 2016

Going Corporate: Writing After the Job Offer

By Laura Maylene Walter

Earlier this week, I visited my friend Liz Breazeale in Kansas City, where she recently moved after accepting a corporate technical writer position. In her new apartment, above her writing […]