Hi, Narratively readers! We know a lot of you on this list are storytellers, whether you work in writing, film, audio, music, theater, dance, fine art or another field; whether you’re a full-time creative or you pursue passion projects in your free time. Well, we’re always sending you stories so it’s only fair that you get to send some our way once in a while!
If you’ve had an article, book, film, podcast or other creative project come out lately, please drop a link in the comments so that we (and all of our readers) can check it out. And if you’re currently working on something we should be on the lookout for in the future, we’d love to hear about that, too. Can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to!
My book just came out! It's about some of the roughest things I have done to and with my body. Thanks for this space to share :) https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324050872
Oct 20, 2023Liked by Noah Rosenberg, Brendan Spiegel, Narratively
Thanks for the invite, Narratively! The most exciting surprise of 2023 has been this: A story I wrote for Longreads (about Thomas Stevens, the first man to bicycle around the world) was adapted by BBC Reels into a short documentary, which I got to help produce. Enormous thanks to Sam Hartford for proposing this to me. Not often this freelance writer *receives* a pitch :) https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0gfp509/the-first-person-to-cycle-the-globe-on-a-penny-farthing
Thanks so much, Lacy! I'm also delighted by how it turned out -- both echoes a lot of the original essay and is very distinct. Really appreciate you watching :)
Oct 20, 2023Liked by Noah Rosenberg, Brendan Spiegel
I don't know if this counts, but I guest edited the Sunday Long Read last week and it was very fun to put together a selection of picks and ruminate on them a bit. Some great reads in there: https://mailchi.mp/sundaylongread/oct-1044401
Oct 20, 2023Liked by Noah Rosenberg, Brendan Spiegel, Narratively
Greetings from the Frankfurt Book Fair, where I have negotiated German language translation (and publication in Germany) to a children's book I authored (Harry the Scaredy Super Seal) and distributorship in India for the books published by the publishing company of which I am part owner. I'm thrilled to have accomplished these things while navigating the Fair, and I'm grateful for this space to share the news. Thank you.
Do you know how it has gone for your publisher? A lot of deals are done here but then a lot get put in the words and don't finish until later. I have four or five more that are in the works but I won't know the outcomes for a bit. And we still have two more days of the fair to go. :)
I don't know. In my experience many years ago, it was much the same as you've said, lots of promises but that means nothing until there's a contract...
Oct 20, 2023Liked by Noah Rosenberg, Brendan Spiegel
The Raised By Whoops Fake Radio Show - we post interviews with all types of creative people. www.RbwPod.com
We are also creating an anthology and seeking writers to contribute - specifically we are looking for performers with horror stories from the stage. It’s called “I’m Dying Up Here” - learn more about it at www.LeonBlanda.com
Finally, I wrote something you might enjoy - “The Moron at the End of This Book: Short Stories From a Life, Well, Lived.”
Oct 20, 2023Liked by Noah Rosenberg, Brendan Spiegel, Narratively
I was super lucky to be involved in an amazing project while in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs. I was there with the Brazilian experimental film director Gustavo von Ha, who convinced all of us to star in his latest film idea he wanted to shoot at Yaddo—a horror movie about the weight of artistic expectations and the pressure to produce. Everyone played some version of themselves and gave interviews about our own artistic practices—then the film switches gears. Imagine if Christopher Guest made an avant garde horror movie about what it takes to make art! (I'm the one—unknowingly —pulling off an amazing Parker Posey impression.) The movie is just about to have its premiere in Rio this month. Here's the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27330978/
My third collection CHILD CRAFT just came out on 9/5 from the wonderful Belle Point Press: https://bellepointpress.com/products/child-craft. I'm in the middle of book promo - heading to the Louisville Book Festival as an author next month, book club discussion pick for SmokeLong Quarterly in November too.
I'm a wild old woman and an author of five nonfiction books about forests. I'm finally working on a meta-memoir subtitled: "From Burning Man to Bhutan"
Thanks! I’m going to go see it on Sunday and I cannot wait. Of course, doing the research and growing up in the area where all this occurred, it has special interest for me.!
Thought I would share my essay—'I Wish My Children Were Still Living Inside My Uterus,’—which I published on my newsletter. It took me months to write this essay because the subject matter deals with gun violence and because when I sat in front of my laptop to write sentences tears would blur my eyes and I would get up from my chair, unable to write a single sentence.
Please be warned. This essay has gun shooting experience on the page.
Your creative and emotional essay got me to check on my immunity level for gun violence. I hope I never stop praying for the end. May you find comfort in God's promises.
Andrea, love the sound of this. We should discuss whether there’s a way to partner with Narratively. Email me if you wanna explore! Noah@narratively.com
My memoir Honeymoon at Sea: How I Found Myself Living on a Small Boat came out from Re:books, a small women-owned press in Toronto and to top that off they are in Frankfurt this week. And it only took me 34 years to get it written!
Oct 20, 2023·edited Nov 16, 2023Liked by Brendan Spiegel
Not mine, but my husband is a documentary director, and his short film "Keepers of the Way," about the Pennsylvania Lenape, just finished making its rounds on the festival circuit. He has his first public screening coming up in about a month! This is where it will be screening: https://countytheater.org/films/keepers-of-the-way.
Then after that, he's straight to working on his next piece, a short about a bronze sculpture artist who lives Wyoming, looking at his creative process in contrast to the change of seasons. That one is called "From Brass to Bronze," though since it hasn't been filmed yet and they're still in the funding phase, there isn't anything to share.
Thank you for asking this question!! I just started a blog about Hassidic sexuality. It documents my experiences dating while transitioning from Hassidic rabbi to ordinary human. www.theblackcoat.blog
Oct 24, 2023·edited Oct 24, 2023Liked by Narratively
Having just read Friday's Narratively email I hope you don't mind a late entry! I'm a freelance writer and I have a new Substack newsletter, Off-Field, where I curate tales from the fringes of sport and society. Featured work includes longreads and podcasts either produced by my fair hands or, less self-indulgently, by others whose work I not only admire but secretly wish I’d come up with myself!
Some of the brilliant work I've read on Narratively has featured in the three editions so far. Any writers who'd like to see their work featured would be more than welcome to get in touch. Find out more at https://offfield.substack.com. Many thanks
Love this thread and look forward to checking out the exciting work you're all sharing. My personal essay about mental illness in the family was recently published here: https://herstryblg.com/true/2023/5/10/the-road-to-durango. And I have a complete manuscript of a memoir about raising a young child diagnosed with early-onset bipolar disorder that I'm procrastinating pitching to agents. The book also touches on my own background as a recovering alcoholic turned marathoner and triathlete. In it, I describe how training for tough athletic events helped me cope with the stress and uncertainty of my daughter's diagnosis.
I have been writing on Substack about infertility, mental health, and adventure!
After three years trying to have a baby and five miscarriages, I needed a break and decided to pursue a new dream. I bought an old camper van and I’m driving from Alaska to Mexico, writing about my adventures along the way as I process the pain and grief of infertility and the question of what comes next.
Can't wait to check it out, Liz! If you haven't already read, you might appreciate Peggy Orenstein's "Waiting for Daisy," which I loved: https://www.peggyorenstein.com/holloway-rd
Jesse, would you mind sharing the spoiler: does she end up conceiving her daughter or adopting? I’m a bit sensitive right now to the “don’t give up trying” narratives, after making the difficult decision to stop fertility treatments. I would be really interested in stories about people who had to make that decision and then grapple with pursuing other options.
I don't mind! Spoiler alert for anyone else: She ends up conceiving naturally after trying like many different options. I would say it might be like exactly what you need to hear/read or possibly the opposite if you don't want to go through someone else's whole journey, but if you're up for it/think it could be helpful, I enjoyed it.
Thank you so much! I should have read this book six months ago when I was in the “try everything” phase, still hoping for a miracle. Here’s my account of “My Month of Extreme Woo” and all the ridiculous things I did for my fertility:
Thank you so much, Jesse! I’ve heard of that book but I haven’t read it yet. I wish I could get it on Audible so I could listen while I am driving, but I don’t see that option. I’ll have to download the Kindle once I set up camp for a few days!
I'm working on developing a new - hopefully comedic - voice. Had my second funny travelogue-ish piece published, and sold out on my first ever one-woman-wine-tasting-travelogue-bio performance! You can find all at https://caroleinnit.com/?page_id=176 and more on the reset of my (still very new) blog
Just this week Geographic Expeditions published my essay, “Diversions,” which won first place at the 2023 Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference. It’s one of the chapters in my memoir (working on it) about being dragged by my husband around the world in search of birds. https://www.geoex.com/blog/diversions/
I won the Michigan Writers Cooperative Press nonfiction chapbook contest. My chapbook, Twinkies, was released in June 2023. Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Puppet Master is currently performing Halloween songs at Community Cup near Philadelphia. We're signed up for several gigs there. We're also posting online
My latest story for Perceptive Travel appeared in the September issue. On an epic road trip covering 1500 miles through northern Quebec, four friends' backstories combine with stories of fur trading and European colonization to prove that survival comes in many forms.
My latest piece is in Success magazine's Nov/Dec issue, out at all Barnes & Noble locations, but not online yet. My story, "The Evolution of Bertony Faustin," is one of my most favorite interviews I've ever done. It's just one of those things where you get swept away into the essence of another human. He's a dynamic, larger-than-life personality (and Oregon winemaker and owner of Abbey Creek Vineyard), and was so vulnerable. His willingness to talk about how he has never felt like he was enough was so powerful, and I wish more people were as open and honest about the internal struggle of being human. I am grateful to have gotten a small glimpse into his personal evolution!
A book to be released by end of this '23 year called, Flying Rocks... Backstage and production insights about the high flying episodes of the biggest rock n’ roll stars in the world, traveling and touring on the road in private airplanes! https://michaellofton.com/publishing-projects/flying-rocks-book/
I wrote a funny, uneasy essay about my deeply weird 25th Columbia College reunion -- Reunited -- Thanks so much for this opportunity to share! https://lizziesimon.substack.com/p/reunited
Thanks for the chance to shout! Pretty excited that my first novel won the Gold Award for Women's Fiction at the 29th annual CIPA awards! Here it is, The Wisdom of the Olive Tree:
Love this invite! Given I mostly have work in-progress, I'm proud to share my newsletter, The Gift, about creativity, divinity, books, and daily life. My latest piece is The World Is Cruel and Irrational: Here's What You Can Do About It:
I am recovering from a bad fall now, but still have been working on music fir my short, animated film, THE LIGHT AT THE EDGE! We hope to resume production starting in December. Mac McCord; Zen Barking Films
Thanks for this opportunity.Today Substack just sent me an email saying I’m one of their bestsellers. I write “What Just Happened” at pattyasaad.substack.com I’m a chronically ill grandmother, and because of addiction and mental health issues in my family, I’m raising my 2-year old granddaughter who also has special needs. I write spiritual, but humorous articles about our experiences. The most recent is “Mastering Patience: I don’t want to.”
My new middle-grade novel, THE MUSEUM OF LOST AND FOUND, came out with Abrams a few months ago! It's about an 11-year-old girl who discovers an abandoned museum in her town and starts filling it with her own projects, inspired by children's classics like THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER and THE EGYPT GAME. https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/museum-of-lost-and-found_9781419754517/
Hello, everyone! I'm putting the finishing touches on my memoir, Hurricane Lessons, with my amazing book coach. It's the story of falling in love with my Pilates instructor at age 46, ending my mixed-gender marriage of 22 years, and ultimately finding the place where I belong. I shared a little piece of it on Substack a while back. Thanks for the opportunity to share it here as well. :)
My husband is dying of metastatic on tie cancer and we have been writing together for the last few months. I wrote an essay about our shotgun wedding the night before a surgery we thought we wouldn’t survive (and which took his tongue) what does a promise of forever mean when our lives are so short?
Thanks for offereing your audience our own self-promotional opportunity.
I recently began a photographic portrait project called "Bruisers" about prizefighters, accompanied by an essay. Together, they can be seen — it's a placeholder — on Medium: ( https://zimberoff.medium.com/bruisers-63c5e33240e5?sk=fcab0bea82007f51db4907dd1790c790 ). Together they respond to Mike Tyson's famous quote, "Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face." Here's why they let that happen. "Bruisers" will eventually become a book.
Here’s a piece I wrote in the middle of the night, camping alone next to a lake near the border of Alaska and British Columbia, waiting for the northern lights to come out. I was reflecting on my journey from New Hampshire to Alaska and the woman who made this dream come true after enduring three years of infertility and five miscarriages:
Hi all. I'm an Australian writer based in Indonesia. At the end of the year I have a book coming out on the subject of boundaries for men. I propose a paradigm for understanding and embodying personal boundaries that goes beyond the mere 'setting' of boundaries in social situations. I then explain how a deeper experience of boundaries can improve a man's intimate relationships, ability to manage time and capacity to live his purpose with an open heart.
My motivation for writing this book was twofold: with a proliferation of men's work and men's circles happening across the world (or at least in the West), I felt that not enough of the boundary work in these groups was tailored to men. And secondly the book is a legacy of my own experience with boundary work under the guidance of a psychotherapist and shaman back home.
It's a far cry from what I usually write about, but I've enjoyed the challenge (and surely risk-taking is the essence of a fun life!).
All the details and a purchase link will be available on my Substack page, and if anyone would like more info you're welcome to contact me directly. Cheers.
My book just came out! It's about some of the roughest things I have done to and with my body. Thanks for this space to share :) https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324050872
Wow. Can't wait to read this!
Same!
Love the cover! Congrats!
wow hell yeah this looks incredible!! brava!
Love this book. Congrats!
Just remembering you recommended this in Culture Club! Glad it's out now so I can read. :)
Have added this to my To-Read list!
Oooooh! Gotta read this!
I added it to my wishlist on Amazon! It looks so good.
Love the cover and also the subtitle. I'm adding this book to my TBR list.
Thanks for the invite, Narratively! The most exciting surprise of 2023 has been this: A story I wrote for Longreads (about Thomas Stevens, the first man to bicycle around the world) was adapted by BBC Reels into a short documentary, which I got to help produce. Enormous thanks to Sam Hartford for proposing this to me. Not often this freelance writer *receives* a pitch :) https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0gfp509/the-first-person-to-cycle-the-globe-on-a-penny-farthing
congratulations!! I love how this story got adapted!
Thanks so much, Lacy! I'm also delighted by how it turned out -- both echoes a lot of the original essay and is very distinct. Really appreciate you watching :)
This is so cool!
Thanks for watching, Angela! I wouldn’t normally say this, but given that it was a UK production, I think I can describe myself as “chuffed” :)
I don't know if this counts, but I guest edited the Sunday Long Read last week and it was very fun to put together a selection of picks and ruminate on them a bit. Some great reads in there: https://mailchi.mp/sundaylongread/oct-1044401
this was SUCH a good line up!! Like the perfect Fall reading list!
Thank you!
The Sunday Long Read is one of my favorite newsletters, congrats!
This is a great selection. Bookmarked some of them to read this week.
Greetings from the Frankfurt Book Fair, where I have negotiated German language translation (and publication in Germany) to a children's book I authored (Harry the Scaredy Super Seal) and distributorship in India for the books published by the publishing company of which I am part owner. I'm thrilled to have accomplished these things while navigating the Fair, and I'm grateful for this space to share the news. Thank you.
Congratulations. That's huge. My publisher is there to sell rights to their six new books, including my memoir "Honeymoon at Sea."
Do you know how it has gone for your publisher? A lot of deals are done here but then a lot get put in the words and don't finish until later. I have four or five more that are in the works but I won't know the outcomes for a bit. And we still have two more days of the fair to go. :)
I don't know. In my experience many years ago, it was much the same as you've said, lots of promises but that means nothing until there's a contract...
The Raised By Whoops Fake Radio Show - we post interviews with all types of creative people. www.RbwPod.com
We are also creating an anthology and seeking writers to contribute - specifically we are looking for performers with horror stories from the stage. It’s called “I’m Dying Up Here” - learn more about it at www.LeonBlanda.com
Finally, I wrote something you might enjoy - “The Moron at the End of This Book: Short Stories From a Life, Well, Lived.”
Available everywhere - www.MoronBook.com
I’m working on a profile series for Tidal Magazine’s online edition, Current. We’re going to be covering artists and small business owners who are carving a new way forward for themselves in the post pandemic world. It’s based off an article I wrote for Tidal Mag last year called Mid-Week (https://ashleyrubell.com/ar-blog/2023/3/28/mid-week-spruceton-inn-owner-casey-scieszka-carves-out-quality-time-in-the-catskills-tidal-magazine-issue-15)
My artist daughter created this during the pandemic: https://www.berlinmermaidmuseum.com/
it is a commercial success!
Love this! Can't wait to check it out.
I feel so silly for not knowing that Tidal has a magazine. This sounds absolutely fascinating and I can't wait to check it out!
Been writing and playing original music since age of ten...40 + years later got to do this recording with family and friends during a three month sabbatical! https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/richgelson/campfires?mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Thanks for this opportunity to share a fairly recent article that I am proud of about a musical icon ..https://www.stillalivemag.com/articles/big-pink
I was super lucky to be involved in an amazing project while in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs. I was there with the Brazilian experimental film director Gustavo von Ha, who convinced all of us to star in his latest film idea he wanted to shoot at Yaddo—a horror movie about the weight of artistic expectations and the pressure to produce. Everyone played some version of themselves and gave interviews about our own artistic practices—then the film switches gears. Imagine if Christopher Guest made an avant garde horror movie about what it takes to make art! (I'm the one—unknowingly —pulling off an amazing Parker Posey impression.) The movie is just about to have its premiere in Rio this month. Here's the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27330978/
This sounds amazing! Can't wait to read. (And yesss, those expectations!)
My third collection CHILD CRAFT just came out on 9/5 from the wonderful Belle Point Press: https://bellepointpress.com/products/child-craft. I'm in the middle of book promo - heading to the Louisville Book Festival as an author next month, book club discussion pick for SmokeLong Quarterly in November too.
Congrats, Amy! That sounds amazing.
I'm a wild old woman and an author of five nonfiction books about forests. I'm finally working on a meta-memoir subtitled: "From Burning Man to Bhutan"
I love how you describe yourself
My latest article was the cover story for Cowboys & Indians Magazine! Pretty thrilled about this one!
Lori Wagner Ford it should be on the website, but here is the link:
https://www.cowboysindians.com/2023/10/on-the-cover-the-true-story-behind-the-killers-of-the-flower-moon/
Great piece! Been weighing whether or not to give Scorsese another 3.5 hours of my life to watch this, but sounds like the answer is yes!
Thanks! I’m going to go see it on Sunday and I cannot wait. Of course, doing the research and growing up in the area where all this occurred, it has special interest for me.!
I *just* bought that issue at Barnes & Noble because of this article.
Squeeeeeeeee!
Just followed you on IG. We're both travel writers!
I just followed you back! Let’s be friends :-)
Loving this matchmaking!! That’s what this is all about! And great piece, Heide!
Thanks for the space to share our creative works.
Thought I would share my essay—'I Wish My Children Were Still Living Inside My Uterus,’—which I published on my newsletter. It took me months to write this essay because the subject matter deals with gun violence and because when I sat in front of my laptop to write sentences tears would blur my eyes and I would get up from my chair, unable to write a single sentence.
Please be warned. This essay has gun shooting experience on the page.
https://thispreciousdarkskin.substack.com/p/i-wish-my-children-were-still-living
Your creative and emotional essay got me to check on my immunity level for gun violence. I hope I never stop praying for the end. May you find comfort in God's promises.
Thanks, Nina.
My podcast airs personal essays. We’re about to hit a million downloads. Check guidelines, we’re open to submissions www.Writingclassradio.com
Andrea, love the sound of this. We should discuss whether there’s a way to partner with Narratively. Email me if you wanna explore! Noah@narratively.com
I just heard about this podcast the other day, so thank you for the reminder! I will check out your guidelines and find something juicy to submit. 😄
My memoir Honeymoon at Sea: How I Found Myself Living on a Small Boat came out from Re:books, a small women-owned press in Toronto and to top that off they are in Frankfurt this week. And it only took me 34 years to get it written!
https://rebooks.ca/shop/p/honeymoon-at-sea-jennifer-silva-redmond
Congrats! The best memoirs take at least 3 decades to write :)
Congrats!
Thank you!
Congrats! Proof that dreams have no expiration date!!!!
Not mine, but my husband is a documentary director, and his short film "Keepers of the Way," about the Pennsylvania Lenape, just finished making its rounds on the festival circuit. He has his first public screening coming up in about a month! This is where it will be screening: https://countytheater.org/films/keepers-of-the-way.
There isn't a link available yet to the full video until the public screening is done, but here is the trailer: https://www.topazcreative.com/keepers-of-the-way.
Then after that, he's straight to working on his next piece, a short about a bronze sculpture artist who lives Wyoming, looking at his creative process in contrast to the change of seasons. That one is called "From Brass to Bronze," though since it hasn't been filmed yet and they're still in the funding phase, there isn't anything to share.
Eulogies for Strangers, brief encounters with (dead) people.
I'm really loving these! We used to do an "Ordinary Obits" series back in the day...these are so touching and fun. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Brendan. Appreciate this!
Thank you for asking this question!! I just started a blog about Hassidic sexuality. It documents my experiences dating while transitioning from Hassidic rabbi to ordinary human. www.theblackcoat.blog
Hey y'all! I just launched a season of essays on my substack all about competition and my need to be the best and how i started prepping for the sat in 4th grade. The first essay is here - https://botharetrue.substack.com/p/i-got-a-perfect-score-on-my-sat-and
Also, I recently crossed 6666 subscribers on Substack and wrote a satirical but also honest and hopefully helpful guide about what I've learned along the way https://botharetrue.substack.com/p/6666-tips-on-how-i-reached-6666-subscribers
hope y'all dig em!
Looking forward to reading both of these!
My latest story is called, "Systemic Deflation: War on the Poor."
Hi Mary - is it published or a work in progress? If it's already out there in the world, please share a link so we can check it out!
Thanks for the chance to shout out, Narratively!
My first novel just won the Gold Award for Women's Fiction in the 29th Annual CIPA Awards -- pretty excited about that!
Here it is: https://tinyurl.com/3wctzxf4
My website stephanieshafran.com introduces my chapbook "Awakening", published at the very beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. My September blog post describes a recent visit with friends from my high school years. It's at https://stephanieshafran.com/2023/09/30/a-circle-is-round-it-has-no-end/.
Having just read Friday's Narratively email I hope you don't mind a late entry! I'm a freelance writer and I have a new Substack newsletter, Off-Field, where I curate tales from the fringes of sport and society. Featured work includes longreads and podcasts either produced by my fair hands or, less self-indulgently, by others whose work I not only admire but secretly wish I’d come up with myself!
Some of the brilliant work I've read on Narratively has featured in the three editions so far. Any writers who'd like to see their work featured would be more than welcome to get in touch. Find out more at https://offfield.substack.com. Many thanks
Congrats on your launch, Alexis, and thanks for the links. Loving Off-Field!
Thank you so much!
My book came out a little under a year ago: "Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir," it's my third book, but first graphic memoir: https://www.streetnoisebooks.com/just-another-meateating-dirtbag
My memoir, ASK ME HOW IT WORKS: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT MY OPEN MARRIAGE, will be published by Viking Books UK in Spring 2025! https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/viking-triumphs-in-six-way-auction-for-pauls-life-changing-memoir-on-open-marriage
Love this thread and look forward to checking out the exciting work you're all sharing. My personal essay about mental illness in the family was recently published here: https://herstryblg.com/true/2023/5/10/the-road-to-durango. And I have a complete manuscript of a memoir about raising a young child diagnosed with early-onset bipolar disorder that I'm procrastinating pitching to agents. The book also touches on my own background as a recovering alcoholic turned marathoner and triathlete. In it, I describe how training for tough athletic events helped me cope with the stress and uncertainty of my daughter's diagnosis.
I have been writing on Substack about infertility, mental health, and adventure!
After three years trying to have a baby and five miscarriages, I needed a break and decided to pursue a new dream. I bought an old camper van and I’m driving from Alaska to Mexico, writing about my adventures along the way as I process the pain and grief of infertility and the question of what comes next.
Read more and subscribe for free at:
www.lizexplores.com
Can't wait to check it out, Liz! If you haven't already read, you might appreciate Peggy Orenstein's "Waiting for Daisy," which I loved: https://www.peggyorenstein.com/holloway-rd
Jesse, would you mind sharing the spoiler: does she end up conceiving her daughter or adopting? I’m a bit sensitive right now to the “don’t give up trying” narratives, after making the difficult decision to stop fertility treatments. I would be really interested in stories about people who had to make that decision and then grapple with pursuing other options.
I don't mind! Spoiler alert for anyone else: She ends up conceiving naturally after trying like many different options. I would say it might be like exactly what you need to hear/read or possibly the opposite if you don't want to go through someone else's whole journey, but if you're up for it/think it could be helpful, I enjoyed it.
Thank you so much! I should have read this book six months ago when I was in the “try everything” phase, still hoping for a miracle. Here’s my account of “My Month of Extreme Woo” and all the ridiculous things I did for my fertility:
www.lizexplores.com/p/my-month-of-extreme-woo
Thank you so much, Jesse! I’ve heard of that book but I haven’t read it yet. I wish I could get it on Audible so I could listen while I am driving, but I don’t see that option. I’ll have to download the Kindle once I set up camp for a few days!
Hi there!
I'm working on developing a new - hopefully comedic - voice. Had my second funny travelogue-ish piece published, and sold out on my first ever one-woman-wine-tasting-travelogue-bio performance! You can find all at https://caroleinnit.com/?page_id=176 and more on the reset of my (still very new) blog
Just this week Geographic Expeditions published my essay, “Diversions,” which won first place at the 2023 Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference. It’s one of the chapters in my memoir (working on it) about being dragged by my husband around the world in search of birds. https://www.geoex.com/blog/diversions/
I won the Michigan Writers Cooperative Press nonfiction chapbook contest. My chapbook, Twinkies, was released in June 2023. Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Twinkies https://a.co/d/9U3pY4H
my book also came out this summer! It's about the intersections of wine and power -- part memoir and part reporting. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/wine-9781501383625/
& here's a fun essay about lady truckers that came out earlier this year
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/highway-star/
Puppet Master is currently performing Halloween songs at Community Cup near Philadelphia. We're signed up for several gigs there. We're also posting online
Thanks for this Narratively! Love reading about everyone's creative projects. I have a comic infertility memoir out on sub AND my podcast How to Survive is in it's second year. We just released our Halloween episode on the Salem Witches! Check it out! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-survive-with-danielle-kristine/id1586894471
My latest story for Perceptive Travel appeared in the September issue. On an epic road trip covering 1500 miles through northern Quebec, four friends' backstories combine with stories of fur trading and European colonization to prove that survival comes in many forms.
https://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/0923/quebec.html
My latest piece is in Success magazine's Nov/Dec issue, out at all Barnes & Noble locations, but not online yet. My story, "The Evolution of Bertony Faustin," is one of my most favorite interviews I've ever done. It's just one of those things where you get swept away into the essence of another human. He's a dynamic, larger-than-life personality (and Oregon winemaker and owner of Abbey Creek Vineyard), and was so vulnerable. His willingness to talk about how he has never felt like he was enough was so powerful, and I wish more people were as open and honest about the internal struggle of being human. I am grateful to have gotten a small glimpse into his personal evolution!
A book to be released by end of this '23 year called, Flying Rocks... Backstage and production insights about the high flying episodes of the biggest rock n’ roll stars in the world, traveling and touring on the road in private airplanes! https://michaellofton.com/publishing-projects/flying-rocks-book/
I wrote a funny, uneasy essay about my deeply weird 25th Columbia College reunion -- Reunited -- Thanks so much for this opportunity to share! https://lizziesimon.substack.com/p/reunited
This week, I started a free newsletter listing bookish events in and around NYC. It somehow didn’t already exist! https://tinyurl.com/2t385yaa
Recently published this essay in Open Secrets magazine https://open.substack.com/pub/opensecretsmag/p/live-through-this?r=e5f91&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post and working on a GenX memoir chapbook
Thanks for the chance to shout! Pretty excited that my first novel won the Gold Award for Women's Fiction at the 29th annual CIPA awards! Here it is, The Wisdom of the Olive Tree:
https://shorturl.at/fhmxT
Love this invite! Given I mostly have work in-progress, I'm proud to share my newsletter, The Gift, about creativity, divinity, books, and daily life. My latest piece is The World Is Cruel and Irrational: Here's What You Can Do About It:
https://thegiftbymonika.substack.com/p/the-world-is-cruel-and-irrational
I am recovering from a bad fall now, but still have been working on music fir my short, animated film, THE LIGHT AT THE EDGE! We hope to resume production starting in December. Mac McCord; Zen Barking Films
Thanks for this opportunity.Today Substack just sent me an email saying I’m one of their bestsellers. I write “What Just Happened” at pattyasaad.substack.com I’m a chronically ill grandmother, and because of addiction and mental health issues in my family, I’m raising my 2-year old granddaughter who also has special needs. I write spiritual, but humorous articles about our experiences. The most recent is “Mastering Patience: I don’t want to.”
My new middle-grade novel, THE MUSEUM OF LOST AND FOUND, came out with Abrams a few months ago! It's about an 11-year-old girl who discovers an abandoned museum in her town and starts filling it with her own projects, inspired by children's classics like THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER and THE EGYPT GAME. https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/museum-of-lost-and-found_9781419754517/
What a charming idea!
Hello, everyone! I'm putting the finishing touches on my memoir, Hurricane Lessons, with my amazing book coach. It's the story of falling in love with my Pilates instructor at age 46, ending my mixed-gender marriage of 22 years, and ultimately finding the place where I belong. I shared a little piece of it on Substack a while back. Thanks for the opportunity to share it here as well. :)
https://surrenderingtosappho.substack.com/p/a-tiny-hurricane-lesson
My husband is dying of metastatic on tie cancer and we have been writing together for the last few months. I wrote an essay about our shotgun wedding the night before a surgery we thought we wouldn’t survive (and which took his tongue) what does a promise of forever mean when our lives are so short?
https://open.substack.com/pub/bessstillman/p/forever-is-short-long-time?r=16l8ek&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Metastatic tongue cancer*. Thanks, autocorrect
Howdy Narratively:
Thanks for offereing your audience our own self-promotional opportunity.
I recently began a photographic portrait project called "Bruisers" about prizefighters, accompanied by an essay. Together, they can be seen — it's a placeholder — on Medium: ( https://zimberoff.medium.com/bruisers-63c5e33240e5?sk=fcab0bea82007f51db4907dd1790c790 ). Together they respond to Mike Tyson's famous quote, "Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face." Here's why they let that happen. "Bruisers" will eventually become a book.
Here’s a piece I wrote in the middle of the night, camping alone next to a lake near the border of Alaska and British Columbia, waiting for the northern lights to come out. I was reflecting on my journey from New Hampshire to Alaska and the woman who made this dream come true after enduring three years of infertility and five miscarriages:
www.lizexplores.com/p/celebrating-me
Working on a big idea book, Changing the News. Intro fragments up at caseyswalker.com Thanks for the invite to share!
Hi all. I'm an Australian writer based in Indonesia. At the end of the year I have a book coming out on the subject of boundaries for men. I propose a paradigm for understanding and embodying personal boundaries that goes beyond the mere 'setting' of boundaries in social situations. I then explain how a deeper experience of boundaries can improve a man's intimate relationships, ability to manage time and capacity to live his purpose with an open heart.
My motivation for writing this book was twofold: with a proliferation of men's work and men's circles happening across the world (or at least in the West), I felt that not enough of the boundary work in these groups was tailored to men. And secondly the book is a legacy of my own experience with boundary work under the guidance of a psychotherapist and shaman back home.
It's a far cry from what I usually write about, but I've enjoyed the challenge (and surely risk-taking is the essence of a fun life!).
All the details and a purchase link will be available on my Substack page, and if anyone would like more info you're welcome to contact me directly. Cheers.