• Maryland Voices Daily Writing Prompt: The Gift of Free Time

    Dec. 3 Writing Prompt: You are gifted a day with absolutely no commitments or responsibilities. What do you do?  Each day, Maryland Voices offers a writing prompt to encourage you to expand your writing voice. While some prompts might motivate you to write in-depth pieces about your life story, others might challenge you to write

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  • Maryland Voices Daily Writing Prompt: Hair

    Dec. 2 Writing Prompt: Write about a memorable haircut or hairstyle you have had, given, or witnessed. Each day, Maryland Voices offers a writing prompt to encourage you to expand your writing voice. While some prompts might motivate you to write in-depth pieces about your life story, others might challenge you to write in a

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  • An Update from the Founder of Maryland Voices

    Greetings, all: In 2003, when I decided to establish Maryland Voices as a statewide creative nonfiction journal for all high school students, I knew that I wanted to make the publication FOR the students and created, designed, and produced BY the students. Since its inception, student editors have been the ones “behind the scenes” doing

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  • The Maryland Voices 2022-2023 team has just published Volume XIII, which features some of the best creative nonfiction written by high school writers throughout the state. Congratulations to all of our published authors! You can access Vol. XIII HERE. We thank all of the students and teachers who contributed to this publication, supporting writing and

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  • June 14, 2021 Interview with the Maryland Voices Top 3 Award Winners Mary Samokhvalova The Maryland Voices Top 3 Award is designed to recognize three writing pieces that display exemplary mastery of creative nonfiction. I conducted an interview with the authors of the winning pieces (and this year’s honorable mention) so you could get more

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