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Family Secrets: A Storyteller’s Bounty, or Curse?

Authors weigh in on airing their families' unmentionables-- in print

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Apr 05, 2025
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Panelists: Aimee Liu, David Francis, Elle Johnson, Toni Ann Johnson, Colette Sartor. Photo credit: Joshua Gershick
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Writer/Teacher/Obsessor | ONCE REMOVED (Flannery O’Connor Award) | CineStory ExecDir | Proud Feminist | Em-Dash & Oxford Comma 💙er | she/her
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