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Prompt 175. Figs at the Mount of Temptations

Prompt 174. The Worst Gift I Ever Got

Prompt 173. Simplify, Simplify, Simplify!

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Lena Dunham

Prompt 172. Doing Her Very Best

December: Studio Visit with Lena Dunham

A personal update

Prompt 171. People Watching in Central Park

Dear Susu #1: Read Me, See Me, Like Me

Prompt 170. Food = Love

Prompt 169. Crossroads and Prank Calls

Introducing Dear Susu

It’s here!

Prompt 168. Ghost Bread

Prompt 167. Transcending Darkness

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Kate Bowler

Solace in Surrender

Discussion: Hard Journeys and Packing Light

Prompt 166. Exposed, Beautiful, Sublime

Prompt 115: Return to Paris

Prompt 165. In Another Life

Prompt 164. Your Anti-Bucket List

October: Book Club Pick & Studio Visit with Kate Bowler

Prompt 163. Planting Roots

Prompt 162. Aftermaths

Discussion: On the Will to Fight

Prompt 161. The Power of Myth

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Imbolo Mbue

Prompt 160. Getting Dressed

Prompt 159: Real Talk

September: Book Club Pick & Studio Visit with Imbolo Mbue

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Nadia Owusu

Prompt 158: Lesson Learned

Prompt 1 (Redux): Finding Beauty in Brutal Places

Prompt 157: Artistic Awakening

Discussion: Know Thyselves

Prompt 156: Aftershocks

August: Book Club Pick & Studio Visit with Nadia Owusu

Prompt 155: Mapping the Mind

Meet us at the Hatch!

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Stephanie Danler

Prompt 154: The Power of a Short Assignment

Discussion Thread: On Achy, Glorious, Youthful Hope

Prompt 23: Love from Ocho Rios

Prompt 153: Your Life Is a Movie

Upcoming Studio Visit with Stephanie Danler

Prompt 152. Guardians in Grief

Finding your voice with Ashley C. Ford

Prompt 80: A Life-Affirming Blueprint for Success

Discussion: Somebody's Daughter

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Ashley C. Ford

Prompt 151: Tested in Fire

Prompt 150: Writing My Way Through

Discussion: Girlhood by Melissa Febos

On Finding Your Voice with Ashley C. Ford

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Melissa Febos

Prompt 149: I Dwell in Possibility

Prompt 148: Hand on My Tender Heart

Prompt 147: The Wilderness Inside Us

My latest piece for the New York Times

Prompt 146: The Mother of Uncounted Possibilities

May 30: Studio Visit with Melissa Febos

Day 30 of 30: A Day in the Life of My Dreams

Day 29 of 30: Forks in the Road

Day 28 of 30: Dead Wrong

Day 27 of 30: The Glorious Awkwardness

Day 26 of 30: Mixtape

Day 25 of 30: Dispatches from Death Row

Day 24 of 30: The Hat on Canal Street

Day 23 of 30: Creation Through Elimination

Day 22 of 30: Earth Day & Dandelions

Day 21 of 30: All the Colors

Day 20 of 30: Girlhood

Day 19 of 30: Your To-Feel List

Day 18 of 30: Inside Seeing

Day 17 of 30: If You Really Knew Me...

Day 16 of 30: First Lines

Day 15 of 30: Notes to Self

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Mari Andrew

Day 14 of 30: Closed Eye Giraffe

Day 13 of 30: Thin Places

Day 12 of 30: The Blessed Shiver

Day 11 of 30: Reverberations

Day 10 of 30: Portrait of the Artist as a Right Foot

On Creative Surprise with Mari Andrew

Day 9 of 30: Essential for Life

Day 8 of 30: It Starts with a Step

Day 7 of 30: In This New World

Day 6 of 30: Embracing the In-Between

Day 5 of 30: Say It New

Day 4 of 30: Mavis Staples on Blessings

Day 3 of 30: Just Ten Images

Day 2 of 30: On Creative Rituals

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Video Replay: Studio Visit with Esmé Weijun Wang

Interview: On Shaking the Sleeping Self

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Jedidiah Jenkins

Prompt 138: Survival Skills

Prompt: I Begin Again

Prompt: Bone Deep

Interview: On Secrets with Dani Shapiro

Prompt: Looking Before Leaping

Prompt: The Last Page by Jonathan Miles

Video Replay: Studio Visit with Dani Shapiro

Prompt: Forks in the Road by Jedidiah Jenkins

Prompt: Playing in the Sandbox by Scott Frank

Prompt: The Sacred Center by Jasper Young Bear

Prompt: Write What You Don't Know by Caro Claire Burke

Prompt: A Memoir is Not a Status Update by Dani Shapiro

Prompt: Day in the Life of My Dreams by Hollye Jacobs

Prompt: Tender and Strong by Nell Diamond

Prompt: Living With Purpose by Briana Nicole Henry

Prompt: Reimagining Resolutions by Michelle Akin