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A non-profit literary magazine with a penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers. Subscribe: https://t.co/9jAgkmI7Ah
Joined June 2013
“We meet on a rainy evening in early March. Earlier that week, I had been lying in Dolores Park listening to a John Lennon song, and I thought of…” —from Rolando André López’s “To the Man Who Killed My Poem” in @OffAssignment #HispanicHeritageMonth
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“You stop and laugh and cock your head up like you’ve hit the world’s best punchline. I walk away but you follow me. You stop close, but not so close that your breath lands on me, just close enough...
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“It’s not often that a glass smashes. But it happens. At home, in a restaurant, at a party. And when it does, whether in a gay bar in New York’s West Village…” Read Mohsin Zaidi’s essay “To the Child I Could Not Help” in @OffAssignment this #PrideMonth: https://t.co/R51JgXXKST
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“It’s not often that a glass smashes. But it happens. At home, in a restaurant, at a party. And when it does, whether in a gay bar in New York’s West Village or in the kitchen of a family home in a...
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“You sat next to me on the sofa, and asked to take off my shirt when I told you it was wet from wandering in the rain…” Ani Kayode Somtochukwu’s essay “To Divine, from Grindr” (@OffAssignment) is featured on our reading list for #PrideMonth: https://t.co/NArl2l3sYd
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“You sat next to me on the sofa, and asked to take off my shirt when I told you it was wet from wandering in the rain. I unbuttoned it without removing it, because in Boston it is cold even inside....
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#callforsubmissions to our Letter to a Stranger, No Equivalent, Under the Influence, Witching Hour, & What I Didn’t Say columns. And, we've increased our payment: $500 for long-form essays ($100 for Witching Hour)! Full submission guidelines here:
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We’re looking for writers who travel, poets who wander, essayists with a sense of place, reporters with swollen notebooks, and gourmands with street cart taste.
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Excited to share my latest words in one of my favorite literary magazines @OffAssignment. Thank you to my wonderful editor! https://t.co/chplkt7Pmw
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“1 a.m. in Los Angeles is the Santa Ana winds whipping hot and violent through the rain-starved city. Katabatic, they gust rapidly downslope from the mountains through the valleys, bringing with them...
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Wrote about my buddy Kate's Garfield from Memory art project for @OffAssignment
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At the end of August 2023, I flew to Indianapolis where my friend, the artist Kate Parnell, picked me up in her mom’s silver Hyundai Sonata of late-90s vintage. It maxed out at 62 mph. Above the...
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If you're looking to attend a writing seminar this summer, check out @OffAssignment's new series on Writing the Body! Guest authors include SLM contributor @christinajcooke and memoir editor @krysmalcolmbelc, so you know it'll be great. Learn more here: https://t.co/00BhG9tAhW
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In this week's "Behind the Essay," @nguyen_p_quemai tells us about what surprised her while writing her Letter to a Stranger, her hopes surrounding the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war, and the books that inspire her. Read the full interview: https://t.co/PxL5WWqJuo
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In 2007, @nguyen_p_quemai stood at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, unable to enter—until a letter at the foot of the black marble changed her life. This month marks the 50th anniversary of Vietnam war; this essay calls for humanity in the face of horror: https://t.co/t6LumuR0Kp
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We've long been thinking about how farewell can mediate our relationships to place: whether it be temporary departure or, in the case of @lsjamison's essay this week, permanent loss. Read about the inspiration behind our new column, Goodbye to That Place: https://t.co/q18IAUKWml
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"Where I practiced what I'd say to everyone on the first day of junior high. (I love how rain looks falling on water.) Where I learned what junior high was really like. Where I was quiet & angry & turned into myself." An elegy for my childhood home 💔 https://t.co/dFFMeQFcDB
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“Where my grandmother gave me bridge lessons and kept Sunkist fruit gems in her porcelain candy bowl. Where I did not give my pet cactus enough water. Where we shot our BB gun at the lemon tree in...
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"Where I practiced what I would say to everyone on the first day of junior high. (I love how rain looks falling on water.)" @lsjamison @OffAssignment
https://t.co/C76h7EbWVA
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“Where my grandmother gave me bridge lessons and kept Sunkist fruit gems in her porcelain candy bowl. Where I did not give my pet cactus enough water. Where we shot our BB gun at the lemon tree in...
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Launching our new @OffAssignment column, "Goodbye to that Place," with this stunner of an essay by @lsjamison. Please read: short & oh-so-powerful. Writers, if you have your own narrative farewell to a bygone place--start drafting, we'd love to read it. https://t.co/cbJ7oGShJd
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“Where my grandmother gave me bridge lessons and kept Sunkist fruit gems in her porcelain candy bowl. Where I did not give my pet cactus enough water. Where we shot our BB gun at the lemon tree in...
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Introducing our new column—"Goodbye to That Place"—with a gut-punch of a short piece by @lsjamison (one of OA's very first contributors!) about a home—now lost—that witnessed her childhood and adolescence in the Palisades. Read this stunning piece here: https://t.co/D46ELNp2Qj
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Last summer, @OffAssignment's month-long “Writing the Modern Love Essay” Masters’ Series course, led by @LaviniaSpalding, gave me insight into the column’s structure & helped me answer the trickiest question: What's my unique revelation about the nature of love and relationships?
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Thrilled to have my essay be a part of @OffAssignment's Witching Hour series. https://t.co/ISnOKtnhHL
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New essay by DISQUIET staff member @steventagle in Off Assignment (@offassignment)!
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“You’d chosen a fitting alias—unique enough to stand out from Sean Cody’s stable of all-American jocks named Mark and Ken, but not laughable like Knox or Shamu. ‘Charley’ with a y dangling off the...
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Through our partnership with @OffAssignment, we’re pleased to share a recent gem from them, “Midnight on the Volta River” by @char_mcmanus — a poignant tale of love, risk and reinvention. https://t.co/4AuLoZZg3Q
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