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Carmen Maria Machado on Staying Focused on Creating Your Best Work

Carmen Maria Machado is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, Gulf Coast, NPR, and more. Carmen’s debut short story…

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Join Our Digital Campfire!

Welcome to the 88 Cups of Tea community, a home where storytellers gather to root for each other, connect, learn, grow, & share advice and wins. We created a private…

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Erika L Sanchez An Unwavering Love of Writing

Poet, novelist, and essayist, Erika L. Sanchez was a Fulbright Scholar, CantoMundo Fellowship recipient, and Bread Loaf Scholar. Her debut young adult novel, “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter”,…

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Ryan T. Higgins on the Importance of Looking at Your Story in Small Chunks

Ryan T. Higgins is the bestselling author and illustrator of the picture book “Mother Bruce” which received the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor. In…

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Private Facebook Group Rules

To be approved, you must have an active profile with a recognizable face in your profile picture (no profile pictures with random objects, hidden faces, etc.), answer all 3 member-request…

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Rebecca Green on Staying Inspired as an Artist

Rebecca Green is an incredibly talented illustrator and painter, and is the picture book author of How to Make Friends with a Ghost. In this episode, Rebecca walks us through…

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Greg Pizzoli on Developing Picture Book Ideas & Diversifying Your Work As An Artist

Greg Pizzoli is an author, illustrator and screenprinter.He is the author of Good Night Owl, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book, Templeton Gets His Wish, Number One Sam, and The Watermelon Seed, which received…

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Susan Dennard on The Revision Process & Overcoming Perfectionist Tendencies

Susan Dennard is the author of the Something Strange and Deadly series as well as the New York Times bestselling books Truthwitch and Windwitch. Susan is one our community’s most requested authors…

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Carmen Maria Machado on Staying Focused on Creating Your Best Work

Join Our Digital Campfire!

Erika L Sanchez An Unwavering Love of Writing

Ryan T. Higgins on the Importance of Looking at Your Story in Small Chunks

Private Facebook Group Rules

Rebecca Green on Staying Inspired as an Artist

Greg Pizzoli on Developing Picture Book Ideas & Diversifying Your Work As An Artist

Susan Dennard on The Revision Process & Overcoming Perfectionist Tendencies

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