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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
Mar 25, 2024
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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…
Jun 26, 2024
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WITD Curriculum Index
The full WITD curriculum (challenges, prompts, & memos) categorized by specific intensives, genre, mood, and season so you can come back to them again …
Jan 18, 2024
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About WITD
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Essay in 12 Steps 2.0
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Tension and Shape: How Incongruous Things Press Against Each Other to Make Meaning
Essay in 12 Steps | FOUR | "Rest your finger there for a moment. Feel the bone your blade will follow. Make a wish, if you must, and then slice from…
Feb 11
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Write-In Today, 10:30 Central Time!
Writing can be lonely. But it doesn’t have to be. Come write with us.
Feb 9
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The Magic of Radical Failure
Essay in 12 Steps | THREE | An unconventional exercise guaranteed to produce startling original writing + Annie Ernaux's flat writing + what creative…
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The Infinite Small
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What "That Place on Daniel Island" Teaches Us About Returning, Distance, and the Quiet Violence of Change
Write with us today, in our last installment of The Infinite Small intensive on micro flash!
Dec 10, 2025
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Let’s Try This: A Tiny Image Becomes a Story
A Shared Experiment in Attention, Memory, and Drift
Dec 4, 2025
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The Miserable Childhood Leads to Royalties ~ Frank McCourt
The challenge and the art of the six-word memoir!
Nov 26, 2025
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For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it can save yours.
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