Write Magical Realism the Right Way

A specific and complex tradition

Rosemary (Tantra) Bensko
The Writing Cooperative
11 min readOct 7, 2019

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What is Magical Realism exactly?

People are using the term more loosely than ever, which dilutes the rich history from which Magical Realism arises. You technically can’t just write fiction in which strange things happen and use that label for it. When we examine the world-view that Magical Realism…

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Gold-medal-winning psychological suspense novelist, writing Instructor, manuscript editor living in Berkeley.