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“The book is about a story that I have long since outlived…When I speak of my suicide, I am pointing to a road that no longer exists.” — @madelinevosch.bsky.social on @literaryhub.bsky.social

I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You About My Book

I wrote a book about trying to kill myself, about surviving after, about how long I searched for the words to tell the story. When I meet new people, when they discover I wrote a book, when they as…

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attention all essayists! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social wants to see your best work. we publish essays under 2k in our memoir section. we are omnivorous, but i would love to see micro memoir, interesting forms, joyful essays, graphic and image/text work. but don’t count out your lovely quiet essay!

This flash by Helen Collins Sitler completely floored me. www.short-reads.org/i-want-a-do-...

I Want a Do-Over

by Helen Collins Sitler | The limits of change.

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“I can only take so many apologies, she often said. Once I give up on a person, there’s no turning back.” (@flaviamonteiro.bsky.social) buff.ly/eMTrpBt

If My Mom Was So Angry Around Me, I Must Have Been the Reason - Electric Literature

“Queen Bee” by Flavia R. Montiero

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And so I find out (slightly late as a perfect Latina/Miamera) that my work was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 😱💀 Thank you @havehashad.com for publishing it and @wigleaf.bsky.social for finding it <3

HAD@havehashad.com · last yr.

5 on the longlist a pretty good showing 💀💀💀💀💀 congrats Jordan Gisselbrecht, Taylor Hebert, @memi-writes.bsky.social‬, Sam Milligan, & @flaviamonteiro.bsky.social

I wrote a funny essay, but don't trust me: there will be evil mom and there will be heartbreak. Out today in Shenandoah ✨ www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/this-...

So honored to see my lil crab essay included in this week's roundup 🦀 (Also stunned by another essay on the list: In the Deepest of Night, by @judybf.bsky.social)

Memoir Land@memoirland.bsky.social · 2y ago

This week's "Memoir Monday" personal essay roundup has landed. memoirland.substack.com/p/a-passel-o...

I have four short pieces out this month about my mother's micro-abuses. This one, up in Fatal Flaw, is probably the most heartbreaking of them. www.fatalflawlit.com/essay-pieces...

The poet in disguise did it again. @sgpoet.bsky.social's new chapbook is stunning 🐅

Thrilled to be one of the 2025 Periplus fellows 🤸🏽‍♀️