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Flash Memoir Friday: Interview with Nancy McCabe

On hermit crab essays, writing about traumatic events, and finding community through online classes

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Joanna Penn Cooper
Apr 14, 2023
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This week, I was lucky enough have the conversation below with Nancy McCabe, my former colleague at Creative Nonfiction who will now be teaching her much-lauded class The Shapes of Stories through Muse. (The class starts Monday 4/17!) I found Nancy’s responses to my questions moving and beautiful, and I hope you do, too. We’re so lucky to have her teach…

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