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Nicole Zhu

Nicole Zhu

11
Apr

Issue 91: Safeguard your creativity

In 2024, I wrote a novel draft in nine months. On paper, I accomplished what I set out to do—
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10
Mar

Issue 90: Writing a novel draft in 9 months

I had the chance to talk with the New England Review for their “Behind the Byline” series for my short
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24
Jan

Issue 89: 100 things that made my year (2024)

Welp, last year got away from me and I ended up taking a hiatus from this newsletter. I guess I
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31
May

Issue 88: Lessons from erasure poetry

Earlier this month, a friend asked if I wanted to join her for a poetry workshop. She’d been looking
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27
Apr

Issue 87: Proven / improved / new

I’m doing a reading as part of my Emerging Writer Fellowship at The Center for Fiction on May 23!
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25
Mar

Issue 86: Small steps

Last December, I was in Cape Town with E for a family reunion with his South African relatives. While we
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20
Feb

Issue 85: Making choices

Ever since I chatted with Meera Lee Patel at the end of last year, one thing in particular has stuck
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26
Jan

Issue 84: A decade of 52 books in 52 weeks

A decade of reading 52 books in 52 weeks! I never thought that when I started this “challenge” back in
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12
Jan

Issue 83: 100 things that made my year (2023)

I’m someone who always does their year-end reflections in January. By the end of the year, I just want
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16
Dec

Issue 82: Remembering the quiet lessons

Congratulations to the winners of last issue’s giveaway, Natalie and Lu, who will be receiving copies of Meera Lee
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