HeyJaredIn a Letter, by Naz Riahi
Each post is a letter to you, from me, about life and all that it encompasses. The gritty and the sweet. Art and love and dying and everything else.
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Encounters with Men (opens the original)
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A Letter to Cyndi Lauper by Wes Hoye (opens the original)
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Writer Laurie Woolever Answers the Rejection Questionnaire (opens the original)
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Hi everyone! I’m really excited about this rejection questionnaire (and you’ll see why when you read it), but first: I’m teaching a really great short story class, this October. It’s the last Prompting class of the year and there are a few spots left. Writing (and reading) short stories is a pleasure you can only truly understand in doing it. For this class, you can be total novice or an experienced writer and you will surprise yourself in a very wonderful ways (trust me, all of the former stude
Painter Tom Burckhardt Answers the Rejection Questionnaire (opens the original)
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Tom and I met almost two years ago at Yaddo, an artist residency in upstate New York. While there, I was really wrestling with my work (the first draft of a novel) in a hideous way that made me feel, at every step, like a fraud. The whole process was so painful. And then I’d visit Tom in his studio and it was such a contrast. The lightness of the space and the joy of his work were palpable.He had dozens of ink jars, all deeply saturated colors that I wished were my tools instead of a computer. H
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