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

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November 10, 2017

Saying No

By Laura Maylene Walter

It’s a holdover from my time spent working as a full-time freelancer after the MFA: the deep struggle of saying “no” to new freelance work. But sometimes, it’s necessary. In […]

March 7, 2016

The Invention of (Writing) Time

By Laura Maylene Walter

On Leap Day, I led a workshop focusing on developing a writing routine and making time to write. It did not escape me that I was teaching this session on […]