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About Shannon Berg

Shannon Berg is a first-year non-fiction graduate student at Columbia College Chicago's MFA program. She is also an adjunct instructor in CCC's English department, teaching first-year composition. Watch for her upcoming publication in Garfield Lake Review.

Attempt to Hear All the Voices: On the Nature of Essay

Shannon Berg

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An essay is an entity in itself that moves, explores, sometimes discovers and enlightens, explains, clarifies, and attempts to relate in some way to the world outside of it. An essay moves on its own … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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