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What It Really Means to "Write in the Dark" | Begin here...
A short video meditation on what it really means to "write in the dark" together
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Born in WITD
A Big, Beautiful, Growing Directory of Published Work by WITD Writers. An incomplete list of essays, stories, and poems that began with a Writing in the…
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Power of Place

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The Power of Place Writing Intensive Starts Now! Write With Us!
The Power of Place | Week One | It's A Town Where ....
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Free Concert + Reading Tomorrow w/Tia Levings, Brianna Lane, Billie Oh, & Me!
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Written by the Land
How the Earth Itself Authors Our Bodies, Our Habits, and Our Interior Lives
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Toward Pleasure

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All the Shit You Don't Want
“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.” ~Ovid
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I Like Doing Things That Scare Me
"The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits" ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Pleasures of the Flesh
We can't study and write pleasure without talking about touch. So, let's talk about touch
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