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Category: Creative Non-fiction
Sometimes it seems I spent my childhood walking at night, hiding in ditches, calming wandering dogs. Of course, that was only part of my childhood, the night half, the hidden …
Sarah and George claimed I’d gone crazy. I suspected I’d gone sane. Though of course, nothing is ever as easy as that. …
In dreams, I always saw myself walking. Get up. Fall down. Get up, fall down. …
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, …
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 …
Read Kirie Pedersen's new story "A Walk in the Park" in Manifest-Station. …
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 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. …
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 …