Debbie Urbanski

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The very sad ending to The Emerald City of Oz

why forests are essential to good stories

the seduction of going into the woods

A Virginia Center for Creative Arts / VCCA Residency

The relief of realism

Or Why Ramona Quimby is Great

Stories out in Nature, Interfictions, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Review, and Massachusetts Review

Whew!

Good read aloud books for a 5 year old round-up

Why did Middlemarch have to end?

finishing a long novel is really sad

Falling in Love with Middlemarch

(do it!)

What can be learned about writing from two translations of Pinocchio?

Writing residencies for parents

If you’re a writer and mother (or father), should you abandon your young children and escape for a few weeks to a residency?

Should you read your child abridged versions of really good books?

A story about a spider

by Stella, 4-3/4 years old

New story in Confrontation

Comparing drafts of Little House on the Prairie

Why Pippi breaks my heart

but read it to your kids right now anyway

Searching for aliens and/or God

and a new story up on Necessary Fiction

Winter squash & big brothers

Little House on the Prairie

read it right now to your 4 year old

Soundtrack for writing stories

and a new story in the Kenyon Review

Rereading childhood favorites

Are Choose Your Own Adventure Books meant for adults? (answer = no)

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