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“Writing nonfiction can feel like a kind of freedom because it gives you power, which you didn’t have when you first lived through your experiences.” —Brittany Perham, author of Executrix

“Write all the truth of your life that you can.” —Paisley Rekdal, author of Heritance

“Just be consistent and show up every day, and it’ll get done eventually.” —Drew Buxton, author of Daytona Teddy Riggs

Create a poem that grows out of an imagined universe, a story set in a haunted home, or a memoiristic account that chronicles an important friendship with someone you have worked with professionally.

Inspired by Ross Gay’s poetry, Just Buffalo Literary Center embarked on a six-month project this year to explore patterns of gratitude and delight with their local literary community. 

New press Lost Kite Editions, launched earlier this year in Minneapolis, has grown out of a partnership between writers incarcerated in Minnesota prisons and non-incarcerated writers from the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.