Thank you, Blair!
@bkjackson
Writer/Dev. Editor/Coach—✍️in The Sun, WIRED, HuffPost, LATimes, Memoir—✍️ on abandonment & grief, founder of www.severancemag.com, for NPEs, MPEs, & adoptees. www.bkjacksonwriter.com creativelyadhd.substack.com Memoir, Binders
Thank you, Blair!
What review!! 🙏🙏🙏
A memoir of spiritual longing and self-discovery by @blairglaser.bsky.social
Important piece by @laurajenx.bsky.social about the things seldom said about pain. spillitall.substack.com/p/the-marath...
The cover of Whale Road Review's Issue 41, winter 2025, which features an image of Tower 10 with ocean waves in the background at Mission Beach in San Diego.
Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share!
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41
Congratulations on your 10th anniversary @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
I know we shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but really, who doesn't? So I can't wait to read this memoir by @jacgorelick
Two weeks left to send your essay! For Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship, an anthology about encountering unknown close family, submit your essays (2000 word max) by Nov 16, 2025. Here's the link: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit
@dianegotauthor.bsky.social
Happy pub day Heather! Congrats on the launch of this excellent memoir about stepping into your own light. @heathersweeney.bsky.social
I loved chatting with @lisabrenner212.bsky.social about her new film One Big Happy Family, about her DNA surprise and her NPE journey. severancemag.com/one-big-happ...
Great article by @laurajenx about a not great article spillitall.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
For Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship (@elj editions), an anthology about encountering unknown close family, submit your essays (2000 word max) by Nov 16, 2025. Questions? DM me. Here's the link: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit
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Looking forward to this!
Join @louisebrowne.bsky.social and @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social and their stellar lineup of guests in DC in September.
An excerpt from Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery and the Currents that Carry You Home, by Kimberly Warner severancemag.com/cracks-in-th...
Beautiful review by @eileenvcollins.bsky.social of The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared by @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/06/29/t...
As a girl who longed to know about her absent mother, who learned that her beloved dad wasn't her father, and that her father was a handsome Italian man, how could I not love Mariska Hargitay's documentary? severancemag.com/my-mom-jayne/
Right?
A master class in essay writing in five paragraphs from @dianegotauthor.bsky.social Mondegreen url:https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/mondegreen/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=beautiful-things-from-river-teeth-5
At the top of my list this week is Amie McNee, who makes an impassioned plea for making art no matter what. @inspiredtowrite.bsky.social
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