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From The Writer's Life

Q&A with Emma Donoghue, author of 'Room'
The author chats about the inspiration for her latest work. Read more » What Do You Want To Write?
Guest blogger Susanne Dunlap asks the seminal question for every writer. Read more » Confessions of a Porn Researcher
Guest blogger Gail Dines talks about reactions to her work. Read more » Weekly Writing Prompt #9
Post your response to this week's writing prompt! Read more » Juncturing
Marissa Matrazzo blogs about the beautiful accident that became her book Drenched. Read more » Framing the Past
Guest blogger Zetta Elliott: How can we study representations of trauma when trauma resists representation? Read more » Read more from this blog

From inContext

My Happy Life: The Disturbingly Sane
In My Happy Life, Lydia Millet takes the view that the members of society that do not fit in are insane to various degrees and turns it on its head. Read more » Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing and Married Women Today
Well, I did it: I got through all 578 pages of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing. I survived the flowery 19th century language and constant satirical jabs... Read more »

One World Cafe Virtual Reading Series

Hollace Metzger performs in the One World Cafe

Chronicling a journey from the subways of New York, travels across Europe, and into Parisian life, Metzger's work is a portrait of transition and a search for one's creative voice. Listen now »

Studio HCE Virtual Gallery

More Than Fifty: Women's Labor & Migration in the 21st Century

In this special exhibition artists Myrna Balk, Lizza May David, Frau Fiber, subRosa, and Moira Zoitl explore the complexity of women's migration and globalized labor practices, probing issues of the garment industry, domestic work, and the sex trade. View the exhibition now »

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