We were the fun family. All the kids wanted to play at our house. Working class and artist poor, we always found room for guests. Most weekends, using battered equipment, …
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Plainfin midshipman and Pacific Herring attract filmmakers and biologists to our world. …
I wished I knew a word for the green of moss right when it starts up freshly in spring. I would lie down on it and roll around. I would …
I write about nature, inspiration, and literature in Cynthia Newberry Martin's blog. …
“We live in a beautiful, sentient universe that yearns for you to tell the truth about it.” …
The male plot line in so many novels and stories: I saw her. She wanted me. I fucked her. She loved it. My plot line: when walking in the forest …
“To say that Wallace took The Drama of the Gifted Child to heart is to put it very mildly indeed. He returned to it over and over again; his notes were made …
Read Kirie Pedersen's new story "Fall Like a Stone" in PANK Magazine. …
Read Kirie Pedersen's new story "A Walk in the Park" in Manifest-Station. …
Notable essays are drawn from a comprehensive list submitted to the guest editor, Hilton Als and others chosen by series editor Robert Atwan. To qualify, the essay must be “a …
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 …