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Lavinia Spalding

@laviniaspalding.bsky.social

Series editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing, author of Writing Away, co-author of Hell's Backbone cookbooks & Frommer’s New Orleans. Words in NYT, Tin House, Longreads, TEDx, AFAR, etc. Co-host of There She Goes podcast, co-founder of Studio Unfurl.

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Longreads@longreads.com · 2mo ago

“I see how stories suffer when a writer attempts to fit the play-by-play of an entire experience into a few thousand words.” @laviniaspalding.bsky.social, editor of "The Best Women's Travel Writing," shares what editing the series has taught her: longreads.com/2026/06/11/w...

‘It's More Like a Playlist’: Lavinia Spalding on Editing the Best Women's Travel Writing - Longreads

The editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing series on curation, grief and levity, and the stories she hopes to read more of in the future.

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Longreads@longreads.com · 2mo ago

“Travel has the capacity to crack us wide open, and it’s the same with sorrow—so a confluence of the two can lead to really profound breakthroughs.” @laviniaspalding.bsky.social on grief, levity, and the travel stories she hopes to read more of in the future:

‘It's More Like a Playlist’: Lavinia Spalding on Editing the Best Women's Travel Writing - Longreads

The editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing series on curation, grief and levity, and the stories she hopes to read more of in the future.

longreads.com

Lavinia Spalding@laviniaspalding.bsky.social · last yr.

Let’s get your Modern Love essay revised and polished and published! This class is limited to 12 students and filling up.

Off Assignment@offassignment.bsky.social · last yr.

OA teacher and contributor @laviniaspalding.bsky.social has published two fantastic essays in the @nytimes.com Modern Love column. Now, she's helping you do the same. Come ready with a draft and develop a tailored revision roadmap with Lavinia and fellow coursemates. Learn more: buff.ly/41pB4bg

Aube Rey Lescure@aubereylescure.bsky.social · last yr.

A very special essay out with @grantamag.bsky.social. It’s about worship, China, patterns, food deliveries, burials, divinations, gorges, moths, padded bras, and silk worms. To see how it all connects, please give this a read — and share if you enjoyed it 🙏 granta.com/the-secret-p...

The Secret Pattern

‘Filtered only through headlines, China had become a political entity more than a physical place where I had grown up, where half of my family still lived.’

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Meera Subramanian@meerasub.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Now, two decades later, instead of reading or meditating or hiking, I’m staring at my laptop, feeling cut from all sides." But, still, @laviniaspalding.bsky.social - super sis-in-law & scribe! - finds a way to repair, even if just for a moment.

Lavinia Spalding@laviniaspalding.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi, y'all, I'm posting for the first time to say I have a new personal essay up at Memoir Land. Thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving it such a good home and to sis-in-law @meerasub.bsky.social for insightful suggestions on an early draft. I love my congregation of female writers!