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The 2019 #METOO Trigger Warning Nonfiction Essay Contest \\ Win $500 + Publication

The #MeToo Nonfiction Essay Contest is back! What’s more, our judge is that champion of #MeToo memoir writers, Tracy Strauss! Deadline for Submissions is April ...

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What Insomnia Told Me by Märtha Custis

Fear silences our voices and daily we convince ourselves that life is fixable, that it gets better and becomes whole again. But the fact is that it doesn’t, at ...

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#MeToo: The Child is Beautiful by Jade Gleason

TRIGGER WARNING: This #MeToo essay contains references to child sex trafficking and its effects on the writer. You will cry and, bit by bit, it will break your ...

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#MeToo: Birthday Cake by Tori Weston

My mom tells me that I can choose who can come to my party. I can choose who can have cake. Tomorrow when I turn thirteen I will tell her that he can’t come to ...

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#MeToo: Hold Your Breath And Count To Ten by Andrea Gallagher

He was a lurker, an expert lurker, my grandfather. He lurked in the dark, and during the day he lurked in empty corners. My earliest memory is of him, sitting o...