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Posted on April 4, 2019 April 4, 2019

The Sound Of The Bell As It Leaves The Bell

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July Westhale
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grief, national-poetry-month, poetry, spring-cleaning, Therapy, trauma, writing-life

Sometimes amid damaging patterns, the loss of people we love, our creeping self-doubt and bone-tiredness with grey—we need reminding our life has been here, beautiful and shining, the whole time. Read more

Posted on January 9, 2019 January 11, 2019

‘Great British Bake Off’ Or Feedback From My Editor? You Decide!

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Sure, ‘The Great British Bake Off’ is a pleasant, low stakes competition, but any writer who watches the judging portion will likely find themselves seized by frightening flashbacks to the last time they submitted their work. Read more

Posted on December 4, 2017 October 9, 2018

Writer Of The Week: Andrea Grimes

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‘Sometimes I get to use writing to shape other people’s worlds, which is a tremendous privilege. Words, man. They’re a whole thing.’ Read more

Posted on December 1, 2017 October 9, 2018

You are here. And that is enough.

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Posted on November 15, 2017 October 9, 2018

Take a class with The Establishment this Friday!

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