So grateful to @swampapereview.bsky.social for giving my essay “The Ghosts of Ticonderoga” a home! It’s an honor to be among this Spring’s contributors. Selections of the print issue are now available at www.swampapereview.com/vol-ix-2026 #nonfiction #narrativenonfiction #creativewriting
Beta testing worksheets. #AmWriting #AmWritingNF #AmQuerying #NarrativeNonFiction #WritingCommunity #TheSasquatch'sRoar
I’m honored to share that Dumb Girl is a finalist for the 2025 Journey Award for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Nonfiction.
Thank you to @Chantireviews for helping amplify voices that are too often silenced.
#DumbGirl #NarrativeNonfiction #SurvivorVoices #ChanticleerAwards
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Big news! My #narrativenonfiction book, 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘, 𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗘𝗗: 𝘼 𝙃𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙉-𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 𝙁𝙄𝙀𝙇𝘿 𝙂𝙐𝙄𝘿𝙀 𝙏𝙊 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙄𝙏𝙔 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀, will be published by @beaconpress.bsky.social and distributed worldwide by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social Coming to a bookstore near you in summer 2027 💥
#bookdeal #booksky #nonfiction
If you’ve been carrying a story idea—an essay, a reported project, a memoir, a book—consider the Low-Residency Narrative Nonfiction MFA at UGA’s Grady School of Journalism.
Applications are open.
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marciagyerman.substack.com/p/no-way-but... My deep dive into #BrianKBarber's amazing researched look at life for over 30 years for 3 men in #Gaza.
#NarrativeNonFiction If you want to understand #IsraelPalestine, this gives you grounding. #HumanRights #FirstIntifada #Blockade #Hamas #PA
The paperback of The Quiet That Remains is now live.
A Ukrainian history told through fragments: documents, letters, silences... tracing one family across the turbulent twentieth century.
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The Woman They Could Not Silence [Book Review] #ThrowbackThursday #bookx #booksky #bookblogger #NonFicNov25 #Nonfiction #narrativenonfiction #mentalhealth readingladies.com/2025/11/26/t... @readingladiesbc.bsky.social
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5 days left to snag a free copy of The Pain Brokers through Goodreads Giveaway! Link 👇
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Kim Cross’s In Light of All Darkness taught me how a book can be both a page-turner and a field guide. Her precision + compassion shaped how I wrote The Pain Brokers.
Her book proposal was dissected by Nieman Storyboard:
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The Boys in the Boat [Book Review] #ThrowbackThursday #bookx #booksky #bookblogger #NonFicNov25 #sports #Nonfiction #olympics #narrativenonfiction readingladies.com/2025/11/20/t...
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The Boys in the Boat [Book Review]
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A 1931 Soviet poster imagined collectivisation as abundance and progress; golden grain, harmony, inevitability. But by 1931–32, that world was already fiction.
#SovietHistory #UkraineHistory #Collectivisation #HolodomorContext #NarrativeNonfiction #HistoryThroughImages
#comeandgetit
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2 weeks left to get a free copy of The Pain Brokers!
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Want a quick craft tip? Read @praddenkeefe.bsky.social Empire of Pain! It’s a writing lesson in reporting without access.
What book taught you something about writing or reporting?
📚 Books Behind The Pain Brokers.
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The Quiet That Remains - bookcover
What remains of a nation when its history is silenced?
The Quiet That Remains traces Ukraine’s turbulent twentieth century through the lives of one ordinary family - from empire and famine to exile and renewal.
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#TheQuietThatRemains #HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #NarrativeNonfiction
Book cover of “The Paper Boy & The Winter War” by R.E. Hengsterman — a haunting winter landscape with snow-drifted houses and a lone paperboy in the distance, evoking memory, loss, and the quiet wars of ordinary lives.
The Paper Boy & The Winter War (Second Edition) —
A collection of short stories by R.E. Hengsterman
Available in print (12.10.25) and ebook (Preorder Now)
#LiteraryNonfiction #CreativeNonfiction #NarrativeNonfiction #EssayCollection #MemoirWriters #NonfictionBooks #LiteraryMemoir #nursewhowrites
Here's a piddly little toss off chapter that's all by itself better than most whole books written so far this century: #booksky #audiobook #narrativenonfiction #bookcommunity #books #read #write #perfect #gorgeous #golf #ducks #fantasy #fairy #tinkerbell
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I LOVE this chapter. I love most of them but this, along with four or five others, is special: #booksky #audiobook #narrativenonfiction #bookcommunity #books #read #write #perfect #gorgeous #vermeer #goya #swastica #tattoo #hillsborough #insane #suicide
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This chapter's so short I can leave the music in: #booksky #audiobook #narrativenonfiction #bookcommunity #books #read #write #perfect #gorgeous #sweet #love #marriage #newage #flowers #blues #manitou #colorado #sacramento
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That other one may be my current favorite, but this is the best: #booksky #audiobook #narrativenonfiction #bookcommunity #books #read #write #perfect #gorgeous
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New query letter: Part Five
If you find a single lousy chapter (out of seventy), let me know. Either would be ideal for "book to film" adaptations (or the other way around), as well. Thanks. G.
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New query letter: Part Three
If you want to see ALL of BOTH books, click these links. The first is literary fiction:
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The other is narrative nonfiction:
gerardjones.substack.com
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