Join us at #AWP26 for our first-ever offsite reading! Thursday, March 5, 7-9 p.m. at Luckie's Liquors in Power Plant Live. Co-hosting with Beautiful Things, @ShortReadsOrg, & @SweetLiterary.
Read IALA member Laura Rink's piece "Geraniums" published in @ShortReadsOrg and discover how a flower blooms into a personal history. 🌺 💬
Check it out: short-reads.org/geraniums/
"I can’t tell you why my brother and I no longer talk." Great flash essay by Darien Hsu Gee (@dariengee) via @ShortReadsOrg. (Loved seeing Darien Hsu Gee in an AWP panel recently.)
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for now, she is Margot until she presents her passport at the border, when she will become someone else, though only for a moment, because she has been, always will be, Margot
powerful essay about hope by @JeanetteMroz@ShortReadsOrgshort-reads.org/literally-any
I've returned to this @ShortReadsOrg piece by Brenda Miller for three Passovers now, making it a yearly tradition of sorts. "Elijah" gives me a bit of everything--grief, faith, hope, and inspiration--and I am so grateful for it. 🙏💙
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I had no idea when I wrote this piece, "Still," about the death of my beautiful son that it would live forever (or what seems like it). So now Eric and his big energy, his light, live on too. 🩷 Thanks so much to Short Reads for giving it another round.
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"I’ve been trying to remind myself lately that we are all human: plumbers, street fighters, kidnapped princesses."
Sarah Carson goes on a quest in today's Short Reads:
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#FlashFriday Today we recommend, “Dig” by Lori McDole found on @ShortReadsOrg! The captivating imagery, bits of alliteration and urgency in this piece completely suck you into the narrator’s world. Definitely give it a read!! short-reads.org/dig/