Rewriting History

How writers turn history into story, and story into history

Rewriting History

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All That History

Remembered History

  • My Story of Sexual Assault

  • A Faithful Heart

  • Our Borders: A Time for Love (1986)

  • Dancing in Odessa (1941)

...More from “Remembered History”

Recorded History

  • Prisoners of Geography

  • Journalists Searching for Ioan Timiş, One of the Border People of 1975

  • How to (Not) Kill and Bury Your History

  • Yes, but What Did They Sound Like?

...More from “Recorded History”

Reexamined History

  • How to Smell a Lie

  • And Then There Was Racism

  • A Killer Detail: You Don’t Belong Here

  • Keepers of the Past

...More from “Reexamined History”

Writing

  • Fifteen Years of Writing

  • Why Publish Your Writing?

  • Extreme Vetting and Dreams Deferred—A Chapter from My Thriller

  • “Show, Don’t Tell” Doesn’t Always Work, Especially with the Coronavirus

...More from “Writing”

Author Interview

  • Author Interview: Karen Hugg’s The Forgetting Flower

  • Author Interview: James Emerson Loyd’s The Great War Won Trilogy

  • Author Interview: Mindy Halleck on Remembered History

  • Author Interview: Isla McKetta on Writing from History

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Personal Essay

  • The End Is Always Near, Version COVID-19

  • Here We Go. Are We Prepared?

  • A Little Bit of Wisdom

  • The Other Side of Fear

...More from “Personal Essay”

Our Borders

  • Our Borders: Ageless Youth and Deathless Life (An Epilogue)

  • Our Borders: The Fork in the Road (1980)

  • Our Borders: The Last Voyage (1993)

  • Our Borders: A Lucky Break (1993)

...More from “Our Borders”

Recent Stories

  • Fifteen Years of Writing
  • Why Publish Your Writing?
  • How to Smell a Lie
  • The End Is Always Near, Version COVID-19
  • Extreme Vetting and Dreams Deferred—A Chapter from My Thriller
  • “Show, Don’t Tell” Doesn’t Always Work, Especially with the Coronavirus
  • Here We Go. Are We Prepared?
  • Author Interview: Karen Hugg’s The Forgetting Flower
  • And Then There Was Racism
  • My Story of Sexual Assault

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Categories

  • A Killer Detail (4)
  • Alternate History (6)
  • Ancient History (13)
  • Author Interview (7)
  • Guest Writer (1)
  • Medieval History (6)
  • Modern History (48)
  • Our Borders (19)
  • Personal Essay (9)
  • Recorded History (8)
  • Reexamined History (12)
  • Remembered History (5)
  • Research (18)
  • This Is Not a Poem (2)
  • Writing (13)

Blogroll

RSS Mindy Halleck

  • An Author Interview February 25, 2021 Mindy
  • What Inspires a Story? January 27, 2021 Mindy

RSS MC Easton

  • My Life Is Out of Control, So I’m Trying Goals March 2, 2021 M.C. Easton
  • Feminist Literary Criticism: The First Hundred Years February 23, 2021 M.C. Easton

RSS Karen Hugg

  • #20 Three Ways to Lower Stress With Plants This Weekend March 6, 2021 Karen Hugg
  • #19 Do Cut Flowers Put You in a Better Mood? March 5, 2021 Karen Hugg

RSS A Geography of Reading

  • Living Life through Nonfiction February 14, 2021 Isla McKetta, MFA
  • My Pandemic Reading List: Stage Three — Transitions December 27, 2020 Isla McKetta, MFA

Author Websites

֍ KIMBERLY CHRISTENSEN
֍ ANGIE MCCULLAGH
֍ HERMANT NAYAK

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