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Getting It Write

December 26, 2014/in Blog / Heather Hewson

Since I was young I have always imagined myself a writer. I have journals that date back to third grade. I have copies of my stories published in the elementary school paper. I wrote my first novel when I was 10. I have pages upon pages of loose-leaf papers covered with poems or stories in […]

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“The Journey” Into the New Year

December 19, 2014/in Blog / Eva Shantharam

As I write this blog post, I’m sitting, tired, in front of my laptop, thinking about residency and how soon it will be coming to an end—just in time for Christmas and the New Year. Reflecting back on this year with its ups and downs, I cannot help but feel a sense of blessing to […]

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From Where We Stand

December 12, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

Last night over dinner, after a discussion with our ninth-grader about some challenges she’s grappling with in her personal life, our fifth-grader suddenly asked, “What’s your super power?” I glanced over to her smiling, mischievous face. One of our fifth-grader’s own super powers is the ability to bring levity to difficult moments.  She flipped open […]

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Express Yourself

December 4, 2014/in Blog / Andrea Tate

I gave a girl goose bumps today. She was blow-drying my hair, and she asked me what I did for a living. When I told her I teach memoir, personal essay, and blogging courses, she shivered. “I am very sensitive, and I have felt like I need to write down my feelings and tell my […]

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My Goal on the Page

November 28, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

This week’s post is by poet and guest blogger Adrian Ernesto Cepeda. Although some might disagree, in my mind, sports and poetry are synonymous. There was nothing like Magic Johnson making a behind-the-back bounce pass during the heyday of Lakers ‘Showtime’ or seeing David Beckham perfectly bend a free kick into a goal. As a writer, I […]

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The Reasons We Write

November 21, 2014/in Blog / Eva Shantharam

There are different reasons why people write. For some of us it is therapeutic, for others it is just for the pure love of shaping words and making them flow onto a page like a poem. For others it is about getting a message across or creating a magical place that only the imagination can […]

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The Two I’s

November 14, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

Back in September, in the midst of a submission deluge for our upcoming Winter/Spring issue (out next month), our fair blog posted a piece On The Importance of Following Submission Guidelines. I know you read it, because afterwards there were far fewer single-spaced, comic sans, 10-pt. font essays in our CNF pile. Still, quite a […]

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Time to Write

November 7, 2014/in Blog / Andrea Tate

Last night I woke up at 3:30 AM in a panic. “I’m never going to finish my memoir!” I thought. Toss, turn, fluff the pillow. “I’m never going make money as a writer.” Toss, kick, throw off the blanket. “I’m never going to be able to pay back my student loans.” Flip onto stomach, flip onto […]

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Bookstores Closing

October 17, 2014/in Blog / Eva Shantharam

When I travel I usually like to go into random stores and peruse through strange things I really don’t need. My top priority though is always to check out the local bookstores and see what goodies I can walk away with and I’m sure to check out the staff picks. Somehow I believe that if […]

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A Wine Bar, the Blues, and the Reasons We Read

October 10, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

I am a nighttime reader. I turn pages till my eyes glaze, my fingers lose their grip, and my sweetheart moves my book to his nightstand. I find it there under a ray of sun while dressing for work the next morning, no recollection of his kindness or the last two pages. Beside my bed […]

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On the Importance of Following Submission Guidelines

September 26, 2014/in Blog / David Bumpus

Here at Lunch Ticket, we pride ourselves on encouraging emerging writers. It’s part of our social justice mission: we’re looking for pieces that tell new stories, written by authors who are underrepresented in the professional literary world. If you submit to Lunch Ticket, you’ll receive a note that tells you how much we look forward to reading your […]

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Taking Care of Yourself

September 19, 2014/in Blog / Eva Shantharam

Maybe it is because it’s the middle of the semester for us MFAs or maybe it’s because the summer is ending and the fall equinox is about to begin and with anything new, change is inevitable. Whatever it is, it’s happening all around me and now it’s happened to me: stress, sickness, and bad moods […]

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The Courage it Takes

September 12, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

Sitting under a café umbrella recently, sipping iced tea with an MFA colleague, the conversation naturally, unsurprisingly, turned to writing. We’re both in our second semester of graduate school. As I’ve mentioned previously in this blog, I’m “Creative Nonfiction.” It’s a fact which never ceases to amuse my fiancé who takes it as an existential […]

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Bad Grammar

September 5, 2014/in Blog / Andrea Tate

Let’s face it: many of us were spaced out during grade school English classes. I know I was more concerned if I had pizza stuck in my braces after lunch than whether or not I knew what an “unclear antecedent” was. Now, we all have a Grammar Nazi in our lives. I’m talking about the […]

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Being Different

August 29, 2014/in Blog / Eva Shantharam

  Sometimes it is hard to be bicultural. Add to the challenges if you marry someone else that is from a completely different part of the world. Recently my husband and I traveled to Costa Rica and it was difficult to explain to everyone we met where we were from. I can only imagine once […]

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The Sense of Smell

August 22, 2014/in Blog / Eva Shantharam

As a writer we are constantly looking for ways to describe things. We are always consumed with the inevitable questions of how phrases sound, if sentences flow, if we are getting to the point. Always trying to get good sentence that will get our readers intrigued, but there is the power of the senses. One […]

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Spring Will No Longer Be Silent

August 15, 2014/in Blog / Caitlin Bagwell

    Michael Brown died on my birthday.∗ No peace. No justice.       We have been here before:   Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain   Native Son By Richard Wright   To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee   Beloved By Toni Morrison     And… Now What? To what do we turn […]

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The Seduction of the Blog

August 8, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

This one’s going to start out with some family folklore. Bear with me. When I was a wee little one, so the story goes, I sat in my crib with a secret smile but nary a hint to my parents of a new talent I was budding. Once left alone, door shut, no adults around […]

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A State of Mind: Embracing the Process of Essay Writing

August 1, 2014/in Blog / Andrea Tate

Last week I traveled from Los Angeles to Montana, and while I peered out the window watching the landscape change from state to state, I realized the journey was much like writing an essay. When I begin a new essay, my mind is a jumble. Things are moving this way and that way. I head […]

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Let’s Judge Your Book By The Cover

July 25, 2014/in Blog / Caitlin Bagwell

Hello, fellow scribblers! It’s been a while!  We need to talk about titles. We had a grand total of 350 submissions for fiction for our last issue of Lunch Ticket. That means that I read 350 titles that mostly made me yawn. ****** Trigger Warning ****** I am using the following titles for educational purposes. […]

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Meeting Author & Illustrator Yuyi Morales

July 18, 2014/in Blog / Eva Shantharam

Last month just before residency at Antioch University I was paying my late fees at the public library’s website, when I came across the main page announcing New York Times Best Seller author/illustrator Yuyi Morales. Since I’m specializing in Young Adult, I got excited. When I saw that she was Latina, I got even more excited! […]

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Say My Name, Say My Name

July 11, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

Years ago, when I first met the girls who are now my stepdaughters, and when we were still getting used to each other’s company, I invited them to call me by the nickname my family has always used: Ari. “Arielle” felt a little cumbersome for five-year-old Shiloh’s lisp, and too formal for nine-year-old Rose’s warm […]

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When Dependence is a Good Thing

July 3, 2014/in Blog / Andrea Tate

On July 4th,1776, thirteen colonies declared independence from Great Britain and later formed the United States of America. Independence Day is now a federal holiday in the United States. Independence is a tricky state of being for it can be a good thing or a bad thing. Writing is an independent profession, but for many of us, […]

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MFA and the Myths of Being an Artist

June 27, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

They say cardio is the first to go, which I suppose explains last evening’s huffing and puffing through my first run since the day before residency began. Normally I’m a runner—around 25 miles a week—but last night it was hard to tell. Each step on the asphalt was foreign. My lungs were weak. Despite what […]

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The Stories We Share

June 12, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

Survivor (as in “Eye of the Tiger”) is to play a free show in Los Angeles later this summer. I stumbled upon this exciting news the other day while browsing Thrillist LA’s list of (they say) every free outdoor concert in LA. It was mid-afternoon, June gloom burned off, the sky clear blue, the asphalt […]

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Bookstore

June 6, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

My favorite Boston bookstore—my singular favorite in a city purportedly abounding with more bookstores per square mile than any other—is like a reversed Narnia wardrobe. When I think of it, there’s a wide glowing window display and thirty minutes disappearing faster than a J.P. Licks frappe. Those thirty minutes would be, of course, window-browsing moments. […]

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Forgotten Places

May 30, 2014/in Blog / Eva Mejia Shantharam

Lately I have been feeling a little sad, concerned about the future of San Francisco. I consider myself very lucky to live in a place that has always been considered a hot spot for the liberal, the arts, museums, and endless good coffee, teas, poetry, and music. After all Lawrence Ferlinghetti considers it his city. […]

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The Sad Eyes of Virginia Woolf, by Debbie Styer 2013

B-B-B-Bennie, the Muppets, and Virginia Woolf

May 23, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

A few months ago, I caught myself on a Saturday evening at the dining room table while the kidlets watched Season 2 of The Muppet Show in the adjoining living room. I had spent the entire day alternating between working on a new song that had emerged from some noodling on my guitar, and trying […]

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I Have Writer’s Block, FML

May 16, 2014/in Blog / Allie Marini Batts

You know those days, where you sit down to a blank page and everything is going right?   Every sentence feels plucked down perfectly from the ether—those writers that you thought were bullshitting when they said: “Oh, the story came to me from somewhere else, as though it were a gift—I was just the medium,” […]

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Why We Said No, or “No This Time” Doesn’t Mean “No Forever.”

May 9, 2014/in Blog / Allie Marini Batts

  Creating superheroes, one decline at a time! Silver linings, right? Recently, this article by Liz Kay has been making the rounds of the internet—and for good reason, it’s a very thoughtful article that really helps a working writer frame the declines they’ll inevitably receive and put them in perspective. We believe in transparency at […]

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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Disappear Where? A Meditation on the Lost and Getting Lost

November 1, 2024/in Midnight Snack / Reid Delehanty
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes
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Fourberie

May 2, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Terese Coe
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Vernacular

April 18, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Mary Morris
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

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I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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The managers of Lunch Ticket all agreed that issue 26 needed to have a theme, and that theme had a responsibility to call for work relating to what we are seeing in society. We wanted a theme that resonated with Antioch University MFA’s mission of advancing “racial, social, economic, disability, gender, and environmental justice,” and we felt it was time to take a stand…

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