by Sierra Ret, Age 17, Canada The first Upwork job that I was successfully hired for was to write a 10,000-word eBook about a university student’s adventures as she backpacked through Europe. It took hours of research (it’s a bit difficult to write about the menus of Romanian hostels if you’ve never been to...
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
in the hall (a poem)
by Maria Theresa Louise Bautista, Age 19, Philippines in the hall when you saw me in the hall and decided to look away– i’d like to know if it took you every single muscle to ignore my raisin-rage lips, and the subtle startle that shook my sunflower dress, that fit terribly with the stress as i went on...
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Letter From the Editor: Creative Writing in an Attention Economy
by Laura Michelle Thomas, jaBlog! Senior Editor It’s not by choice that I will be bringing some kind of end to the LTC website this summer. I am quite happy to run creative writing contests (I have been doing so for nine years without pay, so I must love it.) and with running my more recent literary...
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