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Andrew McDowell is the author of the fantasy novels Mystical Greenwood and Beneath the Deep Wave, the former of which was a finalist in the 2019 American Fiction Awards, won the 2021 Maryland Writers’ Association Novel Contest, and was an honorable mention in the 2021 Top Shelf Magazine contest. He studied at St. Mary’s College and the University of Maryland, College Park. Andrew has had poetry, short stories, and essays featured in anthologies and literary journals. He was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.

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Songs about Writing

Today is International Music Day, so I thought I would share songs about writers and inspired by some literary classics. Let me know if there are any you enjoy that aren’t featured here.
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