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Kirie is interviewed in The Magnolia Review on her love of writing, nature, literature, Palomino Blackwing pencils, and Eagle Cottage, the cabin where she writes every day in 40 minute …
Kirie's essay Getting a Life - Coming of Age With Killers, published in Under the Sun, has been nominated for the prestigious Best American Essays anthology. Read an excerpt here, with a link to the full story. …
Kirie Pedersen's creative non-fiction piece, "In a Dark Time," recipient of the Magnolia Review Ink Award, has also been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Read "In a Dark Time," …
My essay "Saving Paradise" in Still Point Arts Quarterly, is now available online AND right here on this blog post. The essay is timely as communities all over America and the …
Kirie's story Saving Paradise will be in the fall 2017 issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly. Here is the preview of the upcoming fall 2017 issue. Feel free to share …
Read Kirie Pedersen’s latest published story Getting a Life–Coming of Age with Killers in Under the Sun, an online national literary journal exclusively dedicated to the publication of creative non-fiction. …
“Jana drove along the mostly clear highway past decaying Scotch broom, Douglas fir twisted into grotesque shapes, and endless acres of car lots. She was familiar enough with the glance Ruth’s …
In A Dark Time “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” Theodore Roethke A message from the editor of Magnolia Review: I grew up with a magnolia tree …
Kirie Pedersen’s short story The Observer is in volume 34 of Emrys Journal. The Emrys Foundation strives to forge a lively community of writers, readers and storytellers. The story begins …
Kirie’s new story, “Bird Blind,” appears in Mount Hope, published bi-annually by the Roger Williams University Department of English and Creative Writing. Excerpt: “When I built my cabin on the …
I stopped drinking in Seattle when I was twenty-two. I went to a young people’s gathering, and the people sitting around the table were my age or younger. “I’m an …
“Everything is Yours, Everything is Not Yours” is a personal essay by Clemantine Wamariya, written with Elizabeth Weil. At six, Wamariya barely escaped the Rwandan genocide. For seven years, she and …
When I was 15, I was having a bit of a problem with drugs. I overdosed and almost died. My mother attempted rehab by sending me to a home nursing …
Coterminous Lives Kirie C. Pedersen “Coterminous lives plotted on parallel lines and projected back into the past might be said to have come together.” On the November day it all …
Kirie’s new story “Taking the Edge” Off appears in Lunch Ticket. Lunch Ticket balances cutting edge literary and visual art with conversations about social justice and community activism. The name Lunch Ticket respects …
MOLLY ROSE PEDERSEN August 10, 2000 – September 26, 2015 Many of you have been asking about Molly, who lived five years past the average age for collie survival. When …
See an excerpt from Kirie Pedersen’s new story “The Executioners,” nominated for Million Writers Award, in Eclectica: “I almost didn’t work on the Exxon Valdez clean-up because I don’t like …