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Back by Popular Demand! "The Insider’s Guide to Writing Personal Statements and Applying for Grants & Residencies"
Join Abeer Hoque this month to learn how to create compelling applications and land the writing opportunity of your dreams.
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Brendan Spiegel
He Was a Star Student—He Had Also Committed a Grisly Murder. One Teacher Tries to Make Sense Of It.
Twenty years ago, Matt W. Miller found himself teaching a man who was responsible for an unimaginably horrific crime. He turned his back on him just…
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Last Call for June Narratively Academy Classes!
Grab one of the last seats in our first-ever book study, our queer writers workshop, or the upcoming June generative prompts class.
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Our Latest Mysterious True Crime Story
Years after dozens of infants died at a top children's hospital, one writer decided to investigate what happened. Had this been a mass murder or a…
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Story Update: "The Lost Prince of Yacht Rock" Finally Gets His Encore
In 1978 he was music’s next big thing. Then his album bombed, he began a long slide into obscurity, and a bizarre fraud sent him to prison. Dane…
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The Real Story of Black Martha’s Vineyard
Beyond the beautiful beaches and glitzy galas, Oak Bluffs is a complex community that elite families, working-class locals and social-climbing summerers…
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America’s Most Flamboyant Private Eye and the 8,000-Mile Manhunt
Jay J. Armes is a legendary and controversial Texan investigator with hooks for hands and six decades chasing criminals. This was his most epic murder…
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The Acrobatic Immigrant Who Invented Pilates in a Prisoner of War Camp
Interned during WWI, circus entertainer Joseph Pilates used found materials and his fellow prisoners as his test lab, and imagined an exercise system…
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Her Best Friend Was Her Secret Stalker
A 19-year-old student was inundated with lewd messages and fake Facebook profiles pretending to be her. The most shocking part was the person behind it…
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Meet the Male Sex Worker Upending the Nevada Brothel Scene
In remote northern Nevada, a truck-stop brothel advertises “Ladies 24 Hours.” Inside, one 49-year-old grandfather is betting there’s a market for a…
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Hallie Lieberman
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Secret Life of an Anonymous Speechwriter to the Stars
At work, I’m a ghost: always heard, never seen. But mastering the voices of celebrities and politicians helped me learn to speak for myself.
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Claire Rudy Foster
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Meet the Obsessive Role-Players Who Live Inside the World of Grand Theft Auto
Renegade developers co-opted this controversial video game’s source code to build a complex alternate universe where breaking character is the cardinal…
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Meghan Gunn
The Greatest Piano Prodigy You’ve Never Heard Of
Natalie Trayling was one of the world’s most wonderful pianists, but her genius was nearly lost to history because she played and lived on the streets…
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Sue Smethurst
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The Magic Poop Potion
An Indiana grandma killed off a devastating superbug with a homemade fecal transplant and then embarked on a crusade to win over the FDA.
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Lina Zeldovich
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In booming Pennsylvania coal country, immigrant Italians were exploited by corporations and terrorized by mafiosi. One brave insider turned against…
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