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  • All
  • Carl Douglass
  • Cil Gregoire
  • Evan Swensen
  • Mary Ann Poll
  • Mary Flint
  • Rebecca Wetzler
  • Rich Ritter
  • Robin Barefield
  • Steve Levi
  • T. Martin O'Neil
  • Valerie Winans
  • Victoria Hardesty
Evan Swensen

A Word After a Word: Lessons from Margaret Atwood

“A word after a word after a word is power.” Margaret Atwood’s observation has lingered in classrooms, libraries, and the …

Evan Swensen

Cedar Valley News – September 20, 2025

The Question Beneath the Noise By: Samuel Whitaker From the fictional town of Cedar Valley, where characters from Quiet Echo …

Evan Swensen

Cedar Valley News – September 19, 2025

The Weight of Words By: Dan Larson From the fictional town of Cedar Valley, where characters from Quiet Echo continue …

Carl Douglass

HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY

PART XVII Oceania, continued: New Zealand: How to speak British beyond England (continued), course 309 Africa and the Atlantic, continued …

Evan Swensen

The Quiet Art of Gathering Readers

A writer once asked, “What is the best way to grow my email list with the right readers?” The question …

Evan Swensen

The Longest Sentences Ever Written

Every reader has faced a sentence that seems to stretch like a ribbon in the wind—elegant, relentless, and entirely unwilling …

Steve Levi

Northern Lights at Noon

Solomon Mongopoorok cursed in Inupiat when the steaming Colombian coffee splashed over the lip of his stoneware and scalded his …

Steve Levi

The Matter of the Snatched Slime

Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville, North Carolina, Police Department, was up to his ears – so to …

Steve Levi

The Matter of the Parmesan Flake Flight

Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was savoring an Italian meal in a restaurant in Manteo …

Steve Levi

The Matter of the Missing Mountain

The Matter of the Missing Mountain Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was having an unusual …

Steve Levi

The Matter of the Missing Manikins

The Matter of the Missing Manikins Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was working on a …

Steve Levi

The Matter of the Lost Monday

Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was helplessly trapped in a departmental meeting with blatant undertones. …

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