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On Writing and Redemption
July 7, 2011
Mark Richard didn’t intend to write his latest book. He had originally set out to explore the death of Nat Turner, an early 19th-century slave insurrectionist in Southampton County, Va., where Richard lived as a boy.… more>

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Discovering Their Voices
March 4, 2011
Writing reports on Charles Dickens’ novels, analyzing the theme of 1984 or ascertaining William Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter are assignments high school students have come to expect in their English classes. So,… more>

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Between Drafts
November 1, 2010
The spring of 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of USC College’s Master of Professional Writing (MPW) Program. Among the first of its kind, the program unites five disciplines — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, new… more>

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