March 1999

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Features
Writing the personal essay
By Eileen Herbert Jordan
Capturing the unknown self: writing a spontaneous poem
By Floyd Salas
A conversation with Joan Didion
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
How to bring your settings to life
By Moira Allen
Writing newspaper opinion articles
By Wendy Dager
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From the editor
Writing for entrepreneur books
By Marla Markman
Off the cuff
How to become an author - in four easy steps
By Steve Altes
Roving editor
They say
Letters to the editor
The writer's library
Where to sell manuscripts
Poetry: General Magazines
Little, Literary, and College Magazines; Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
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