Congrats to @camilleuadams.bsky.social on pub week for her debut memoir, How to Be Unmothered! We did a Roots Wounds Words creative nonfiction workshop together in 2023, where I witnessed her brilliance in action as she worked on this book. Read/gift/share it, esp for my fellow estranged BIPOC folks

Looking forward to reading alongside these amazing Abode Press fellows in a little bit! Come through!

Finding reminders that most Americans are immigrants not natives in the pieces by @melissalbennett.bsky.social, Lorinda Toledo, Ana Maria Mina Hernández, @mahopita.bsky.social & @riidgwayy.bsky.social from @writingourwellness.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Otherworldly”: tinyurl.com/Otherworldly405.

Flash 405, August 2024: “Otherworldly” Winners - Exposition Review

We are pleased to finally share the winners of “Otherworldly,” our August 2024 Flash 405 contest. With this announcement, our Flash 405 2024 season officially come to a close, but we are ending an inc...

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I’m happy to be a 2025 Creative Nonfiction Fellow with Abode Press! I’ll be joining an amazing group of writers to study with the brilliant KB Brookins. Looking forward to writing in community and workshopping an excerpt from my memoir about being a first gen student and single mothering in poverty.

Los Angeles folks, join us for Palabras Literary Salon at Latinx With Plants on Sunday, May 18, 2-3:30PM! I’ll be sharing new poems + prose alongside a powerful lineup of BIPOC writers, honoring Carolyn Huynh’s new book, The Family Recipe. Thanks for Jen Cheng for organizing this amazing series!

Honored that my poem, "When I Was a Starseed," was nominated for Best New Poets, my first BNP nom! Grateful to Lucky Jefferson & guest editor Xochitl Alicia Frausto for including my poem in "Wildflower," a special issue by & for BIPOC autistic writers ♾️🌌✨ Read the issue for free via my linktree!

Thanks again to Women Who Submit for the regrant support, my friend Nicole & Ashton @tell-it-ashton.bsky.social for creating this post!

Thanks to Dr. Tran for having me speak to her Engaging Students of Color class at Cal State East Bay yesterday! We explored Ethnic Studies methodologies, writing as healing, Audre Lorde, living life as artists & more. I also read from my memoir-in-progress & poems. Grateful for the students & convo!

Join Permission to Write for this free virtual literary event on May 8 with these talented Black women writers! I'm incredibly proud to serve as a board member for this Black woman founded & led literary org for BIPOC writers, come through and support! Register here: bit.ly/wipmay25

Thank you Xochitl & Women Who Submit for this small regrant! Every dollar counts. I used the funds to apply to creative writing opportunities, including Hedgebrook (I submitted last night!). Also, big thanks to my amazing accountability partner & friend, Nicole, whose support also helped me submit.

Big thanks to Prof. G, an English professor at ELAC 🐺, who taught my poem, “Policy,” in her class last week. I’m very happy to hear that it resonated with the exact people I wrote it for—working class, single mamas of color. We see, we know, we survive against all odds, in community college & beyond

I'm a 2025 Periplus fellow! And another thanks to my brilliant Periplus mentor, Dionne Ford. I had the fortune of meeting her in-person last week & we are both moms, writers in recovery, memoirists. When creative labor, libraries, education, books & imaginations are under attack, writers write back.