500 Words
by Martha Conwayin 📚 Literature
500 Words
About the Substack
One-minute reads on inspiration and humor in the creative life. I should have named this 100 Words!
About Martha Conway
My latest novel is We Meet Apart, set in Ireland in 1940. I teach creative writing for Stanford University's Continuing Studies program.
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