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How writing communities handle posthumous publication ethics

Our writing group has been meeting for fifteen years and now that Margaret died, we're struggling with whether to publish the memoir she was working on because it names real people in our community in ways that could be devastating.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A creative community must choose between honoring a member's artistic legacy and protecting living people from her unfiltered truth.

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