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Unique Craft Masterclasses with The Common

craft masterclasses with headshots: Jim Shepard, W. Ralph Eubanks, Vievee Francis, and Curtis Bauer 

Give your writing a boost this spring. Join The Common for a series of craft classes with these literary luminaries.
 

    • Jim Shepard: Generating Fiction from History [register]

    • Vievee Francis and Curtis Bauer: Writing Toward a Poetry Chapbook or Collection [register]

    • W. Ralph Eubanks: How to Turn a Place into an Essay [register]

 
Each class includes a craft talk and Q&A with the guest author, generative exercises and discussion in breakout sessions, and a take-home list of readings and writing prompts. Students also receive exclusive access to a free “Behind the Scenes” session about what literary magazine editors look for in submissions. Recordings will be available after the fact for participants who cannot attend the live event.
 
Each class is $125, or $75 for current subscribers or past Weekly Writes participants. 

 

Unique Craft Masterclasses with The Common
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The Common Welcomes New Editors!

The Common is excited to announce four new additions to the editorial staff: Translations Editor Curtis Bauer, Contributing Editor W. Ralph Eubanks, Arabic Fiction Editor Hisham Bustani, and Dispatches Editor Nina Sudhakar.

The Common Welcomes New Editors!
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Passing Strange

By W. RALPH EUBANKS
All thinking Southerners, at some point, find their minds at war with their hearts, a battle that often ends with the heart claiming victory. It is this triumph of the heart that landed me, a black expatriate Mississippian, back in my home state again. Yet returning to Mississippi after nearly forty years, albeit temporarily, as a visiting professor, has left me torn somewhere between acceptance and separateness. In some ways, the longer I am in the South, the less I try to maintain my distance from the place.

Passing Strange
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