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From arts activism to full-spectrum leadership…voices from the vanguard.

Writing to Right the World: Editor’s Introduction

In this Fired Up! special edition, a group of young people share their critique of the world as it is, and their visions for making it better.

Climate Change and Consciousness: Now is our time! Editor’s column by Jennifer Browdy

This special edition of Fired Up! will energize and inspire you. And there’s much more coming up!

From the Editors: Keep Your Creative Fires Burning!

At Fired Up! we want to know: What do you care about? What makes your heart sing or your blood boil?

An excerpt from SLIPPER, by Hester Velmans

An excerpt from SLIPPER, by Hester Velmans

SLIPPER is the story of a poor orphaned stepchild, a would-be princess, whose search for one true love or another takes her all over 17th century England, France and the Low Countries. Born under mysterious circumstances, she grows up to be a dreamer, a cinder sweep, a runaway, a camp follower, a kisser of frogs, a beggar, a thief, a mother and an artist. Along the way she learns what to do about men. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that her life is a fairy tale come true.

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Can a Tree Teach Race Relations? Magnolia Justice, by Jana Laiz

Can a Tree Teach Race Relations? Magnolia Justice, by Jana Laiz

I often dream entire passages or lines for books I’m writing and one night, I woke with this line, “I remember the Winter long ago, the one that lingered like regret.” I had to rustle around in my bedside table to find paper and pen to write it down. When your dreams offer you lines like that, you don’t say no. Later that same day, my husband came into my office and said, “You should write a story about a lynching tree from the point of view of the tree.”

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