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The Pulitzer jury, editors, and cats for mayor

By Nico Mara-McKay | Tuesday, 17 July 2012 | 3 minutes of reading

Time crashes by, and I’m left wide-eyed wondering what the hell just happened. Life’s thrown me a bewildering start to my thirties. I thought I’m finally supposed to feel like a grown up now? Or is bemoaning how that’s not quite the case exactly what I’m supposed to be feeling? I get the sense it’s the latter. […]

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Pussified poets, Chaos Muppets and more

By Nico Mara-McKay | Friday, 29 June 2012 | 3 minutes of reading

Oh, man. Where did the month go? Never mind that, where did the year go? All the years?! Two years ago this month I quit my job. Some things have changed in that time – I’m getting more poetry acceptance letters, I’m slowly starting to creep out of my writing cave and meet other people who write

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