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The 15 Most-Read Pieces of 2025
Revisit (or discover) some of our readers’ favorite TWC contributions from last year! • Are the Big Guys Always the Bad Guys? (February) Courtney Maum debates the viral “The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction” Substack article. • The Big Conversation: The New MFA? (August) Blake Kimzey of WritingWorkshops.com, Rebecca Makkai of StoryStudio Chicago, Julia Fierro of Sackett Street, and G. E.
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Keeping an Oar in the Water D. S. Waldman traces his daily writing practice to the grief and depression that followed the death of his brother.
On Returning to Baltimore
Header image: Elevated view of a Baltimore street. Photo credit: Alicia Wiley Note from AWP: This article is free for everyone. My family moved to Maryland from our native Pennsylvania when I was ten. They still talked, ate, thought, and lived like Pennsylvanians, most egregiously by tuning in to the weekly Pittsburgh Steelers game while our neighbors grilled hot dogs in Ravens purple.
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