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

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May 30, 2019

The Wow Moment: On the Joys of Teaching

By Ruth Joffre

June 2009. My classmates and I are gathered in a dimly lit room in Rome, where our instructors, Stephanie Vaughn and Michael Koch, lead Cornell’s annual summer creative writing program […]

July 13, 2018

On Transforming Yourself

By Caroline Hagood

It can be a visible change or something so far down inside that only you know a thing about it. Sometimes it takes years and sometimes all it takes is […]