Eileen Vorbach Collins (@eileenvorbachcollins2) It's National Suicide Prevention Week. That means different things to different people. To me, a survivor of suicide loss, it means talking openly about suicide. Not allowing the loss to consume me, b...

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Looking forward to reading all 32 of these essays. Well, at least 31. Pleased to say I wrote one of them.

Sadly, they always miss the irony.

Congratulations @mimiziemanmd.bsky.social !
Georgia Author of the Year for Memoir.

This one will stay with me. That Q-tip dipped in Windex...

Thank you for publishing this little piece of my heart and for choosing the perfect image to accompany it. ❤️

Thank you, @100wordstory.bsky.social for publishing this little piece of my heart.

I didn't know this. Going to download Libby now. ❤️ My Library.

Still by Casey Mulligan Walsh | Knowing yet not knowing.

A personal favorite by Casey Mulligan Walsh ( @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social) via @short-reads.org (& originally published in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social). www.short-reads.org/still/

Book Talk: Love in the Archives A memoir by Eileen Vorbach Collins

Thank you so much, Charlotte Hamrick, for this wonderful review of my book. What a sweet Saturday surprise. Book Talk: Love in the Archives open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

Passing the Torch A Year of Support, Love, and Memories

Passing the Torch
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I deleted the sky-follower thing that would bring all my followed/following from the former place. Trying to avoid politics because my #brokenheart can't take any more right now. Where are the #writers? Where are the #doglovers? I need you. #cnf #tinytruth #memoir

A Bucketful of Wonderful Woe The conundrum of writing about grief and trauma

A Bucketful of Wonderful Woe
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Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination a book by Stephanie Clare Smith This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you. Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New...

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I borrowed it from the library.

Thank you so much, Jacque.

REVIEW: Everywhere the Undrowned by Stephanie Clare Smith | Hippocampus Magazine In her stunning debut memoir, Everywhere the Undrowned, Stephanie Clare Smith walks us through the summer she spent on her own, at fourteen, in a New Orleans....

I was just reading a post by @bkjackson.bsky.social on a Binder site about worrying an author won't like a review. I checked @hippocampusmag.bsky.social and saw my review was published. I hope I got it right because this here is a special book.
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Laughing Lessons by Eileen Vorbach Collins Your death wasn’t real. I knew you’d come back, that it was, all of it, a bad dream. The worst dream ever dreamed. When after the first day of shiva— after I laughed and chatted, served cake and co…

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Yes. And those massive butterfly and dove releases are harmful as wll. The poor butterflies are often diseased. The doves, raised in cages, not even know what flight is about, crask into things and fall in cluster-(F is for feathers) to the ground.

Happy to be included in this starter pack.

OMG. So good. So relatable.

Delighted to say, "I spy with my little eye, some Writer's Tears in that tree. With more to come in the new year, I suspect. @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social
Thank you for including my book in that awesome lineup.

I'd love to be added to this starter pack. "Hologram Jesus," Issue 25. Thanks so much.

So glad to see this essay by @micheledhaber.bsky.social here. From the title to the ending and everything in between, so deserving of all those nominations.

I love this one.

I had to look up chuffed, just to be sure. We're on the same page here. I too appreciate those 4-stars. I've heard some authors are upset by them. People, please. If you're no Barbara Kingsolver and the reviewer isn't your mother, be like Steve. Embrace those 4-stars. They mean awesome.

I love this one so much. And what about that solitary lip?

A Sorrow Shared Making Lemonaid on a Cold November Day

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As you should be. Proud of this gorgeous, poignant work.

I’ve met no one who has ceased their longing or stopped their yearning despite the passage of 365 days.
Some call that pathology.

I call it love.

On November 23, my daughter’s birthday, twenty-three years after her death, I will show up for this event.

My suspicion was right. That promised reprieve after the one-year mark is fake news.