Claire Polders

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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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    Latest Podcasts, Publications, and More

    Here's what happened and what is scheduled to happen.

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    Woman of the Hour—Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion

    This collection will transport the reader from an Amsterdam canal to the Oaxacan coast, from a silt-streaked Venice to an imaginary world, from an Icelandic waterfall to a hall of mirrors. 

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    Closed Circle: New Flash Fiction in the Sunlight Press

    The others and I hike up the winding trail from the riverbank to the queen of glacial waterfalls. The canyon is steep and stark as though warning me for what’s to come. Forty-five meters high, a hundred meters wide, two…

  • Two pair of feet wearing Swing Love shoes hanging our of a car window.
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    Meet Châu Quỳnh Lê from Swing Love

    Swing Love: Meet the woman whose love for swing dance inspired her business in handcrafted sustainable leather shoes in Vietnam.

  • A fragile butterfly perched on a finger tip
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    Micro Memoirs in DIAGRAM

    Three micro memoirs in DIAGRAM about murder as a protective force, the sound of lines slapping against masts, and childhood shame.

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