New from @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social A wonderful middle grade novel about a challenging mother-daughter bond, body image, love and belonging.

Thank you, Blair!

What review!! 🙏🙏🙏

REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser | Hippocampus Magazine In the Incredible Longing: Finding Myself in a Near-Cult Experience, Blair Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashr...

A memoir of spiritual longing and self-discovery by @blairglaser.bsky.social

What Are Your Rooms of Experience? Thoughts on grief and the illusion of control. Also: writing, litmag, and cardiac health news. Welcome in!

By the always deeply thoughtful @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social

In Praise of Audacity A Q&A With Entrepreneur and Podcaster Alice Draper

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The Marathon No One Sees The loneliness of chronic pain

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!

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Congratulations on your 10th anniversary @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

The Master Key to My Life A Q & A with memoirist and journalist Carla Sosenko

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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

ELJ Editions Submission Manager WELCOME TO ELJ EDITIONS, LTD.Emerge Literary Journal is OPEN to submissions. We are open to submissions in the following windows:1/1-2/287/1-8/30Manuscript submissions are currently CLOSED.A kind remi...

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
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Happy pub day Heather! Congrats on the launch of this excellent memoir about stepping into your own light. @heathersweeney.bsky.social

One Big Happy Family - Severance Magazine Actor, producer, screenwriter Lisa Brenner brings her DNA surprise experience and NPE journey to the big screen.

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...

No One Likes a Critic Nine tips on how to give feedback and a few thoughts on how to receive it

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The Art of Missing the Point A response to The New Yorker article on DNA surprises

Great article by @laurajenx about a not great article spillitall.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

ELJ Editions Submission Manager WELCOME TO ELJ EDITIONS, LTD.Emerge Literary Journal is OPEN to submissions. We are open to submissions in the following windows:1/1-2/287/1-8/30Manuscript submissions are currently CLOSED.A kind remi...

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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ADHD Paralysis When Indecision Keeps you From Filling the Blank Page

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Looking forward to this!

Live Podcast Weekend with Adoption: The Making of Me - Severance Magazine Louise Browne and Sarah Reinhardt are bringing their popular podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me, to life in Washington, D.C. this September

Join @louisebrowne.bsky.social and @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social and their stellar lineup of guests in DC in September.

Suddenly, Jamaica | Henry Louis Gates Jr. Jamaica Kincaid’s commanding, irreverent work immerses her readers in a black world without explaining or defining its blackness. This seems to be a major departure in the history of African American ...

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Cracks in the Foundation - Severance Magazine Excerpt from Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home, by Kimberly Warner

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...

My Mom Jayne - Severance Magazine A review of Mariska Hargitay's remarkable documentary film, My Mom Jayne—a story of grief, loss, tragic secrets, and love

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:riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/mondegr...

Space Out to Create For Writers with ADHD, Learning to Tolerate Boredom Can Boost Creativity

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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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