On Reading a Killer’s Manifesto
Over Memorial Day weekend, I enjoyed an idyllic three days with friends. When they left on Tuesday, I returned to the world…
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The Fire Rises
My father was an Eagle Scout when being an Eagle Scout meant something. When I was young, he taught me the proper way to build a campfire…
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Vela’s First Nonfiction Contest: Results
Vela’s first Nonfiction Contest received over 500 submissions. We were humbled to read the stories women writers shared with us and impressed by their breadth…
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Women We Read This Week
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ “Resegregation in the American South” in The Atlantic Focusing on the experiences of three generations of Tuscaloosa, Alabama residents, Nikole Hannah-Jones paints…
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Vela Writers On: Storytelling
Where do fictional characters come from; what does it mean to bear witness; is information the death of story? In three short essays, Vela…
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Our Own Ocean
During the longer days of our cross-country road trip I slept in the car in the early afternoon, dozing in the passenger seat as Cam’s Toyota…
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Women We Read This Week
Madeleine Schwartz’s Interview With Vivian Gornick in The Believer Here’s one for the writers in the house. And the ladies. And especially the writer ladies….
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On Running Again
Last Saturday, the first almost-warm day of the year, I went for a run along the river, into town, through the park – a four mile loop in perfect, breezy, sunny conditions.
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Vela Writers On: Money
I remember years ago – five years ago, to be precise – after I’d decided not to take another teaching job, I announced to my…
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Women We Read This Week
Mac McClelland’s “How to Build a Perfect Refugee Camp” in The New York Times Magazine Mac McClelland always brings the spot-on reporting and her latest…
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A Story About Hanoi
This is a story about moving to Hanoi. This is not a story about moving to Hanoi as an American.
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Walk It Down
I caught my first salmon off the seawall in Kotzebue, Alaska in the very early morning of August fourth. I used a snagging hook…
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