Claire Polders

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  • Author News,  Book: Woman of the Hour,  On Writing and Art

    How The Sacred Lake of Poetry Can Bring Wisdom to Our Prose

    An essay for Brevity on writing hybrids and finding inspiration in poetry.

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    What Happens When We Treat Agents and Publishers as Genuine Partners

    It took me an embarrassingly long time to take one crucial step in my writing career.

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    My 2024 Book Recommendations

    I published this list originally in December for my newsletter Wander, Wonder, Write. Today, I finally get around to posting it here.

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    Landed by Jennifer Lang

    How should we react to terror that’s here to stay? Lang and her family members respond with stubborn resilience or temporary denial. With self-defense lessons in the synagogue’s social hall and learning how not to get stabbed.

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    Message from the Shadows, Time Ages in a Hurry, Pereira Maintains I haven’t updated my website in a while. This summer, I turned my Substack newsletter Wander, Wonder, Write into a weekly publication and I’ve been busy writing essays and…

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