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LitFriends: The Power of Your Words In Action

LitFriend Newsletter. Words in action

LitFriends: The Power of Your Words In Action “A word after a word after a word is power” — Margaret Atwood Subscribe to our free LitFriends newsletter and get your free planning sheets for your writing and life projects. Click Here We talk about craft, publication, and practice. Last week, writing from this community reminded …

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LitFriends: LitFriends: What If the Work You’re Avoiding Is the Work That Matters

LitFriends Newsletter

LitFriends: What If the Work You’re Avoiding Is the Work That Matters?   In a moment that asks a great deal of us, let’s pay attention to what strengthens our capacity to think clearly, stay grounded in our values, and act with integrity. That attention sits at the center of what we do here in …

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LitFriends: Pathways to Transfomations Begin Now

December 2025 Newsletter

LitFriends: Begin Your Transformation LitFriends Community:  “Hope is not idle. It asks something of us.” — Rebecca Solnit As this year closes, I’ve been thinking about the kind of hope that shows up as steady work. Over the last year and a half, I wrote my next memoir. Now begins the long path toward finding …

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Call For Submission Update : Voices on The Gift Of Aging

Call for submission about aging

Re-Opening Submissions for Anthology on Aging Our Next Anthology Needs Great Essays   Call for Submissions: Voices on the Gift of Aging Jack Walker Press invites writers to submit personal essays for our upcoming anthology, Voices on the Gift of Aging (working title). This collection will explore the emotional, spiritual, and practical dimensions of aging—celebrating wisdom, confronting loss, …

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LitFriends: Your Books Featured, a Free Book Club Kit, and a Giveaway

LitFriends Newsletter

LitFriends Your Books Featured, a Free Book Club Kit, and a Giveaway LitFriends — I’ve been working behind the scenes to bring you a few gifts and connection points for both the readers and writers in our community. I think you’ll love what’s in store. Wilson is asleep beside me, snoring like a tiny lumberjack …

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LitFriends:The Ghost Story Behind Every Search for Meaning

LitFriends Free Download

LitFriends: The ghost story behind every search for meaning I went quiet—and came back with more than a book. I missed my LItFriends! I ghosted you— not the spooky kind. I disappeared to finish The Alchemy of Sass, a memoir about unraveling the lies, secrets, and assumptions that shaped me.  I”m just finishing up the …

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Cursive Writing: Why and How Kids, Teens, Adults Should Learn This Skill

Cursive Writing: Why and How Kids, Teens, Adults Should Learn  Cursive writing is an essential skill that has been overshadowed in recent years by digital communication. However, learning cursive can enhance your handwriting, improve fine motor skills, and even boost cognitive development. Whether you are a parent looking to teach your child, a teenager wanting …

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LitFriends: Memoir and Marcellous of Remarkably Bright Creatures

December 2025 Newsletter

LitFriends Mini Newsletter The Holidays keep us busy, but we still want to meet our writing goals. This mini LitFriends honors your busy schedule and writing ambitions. 1. EXPLORE OUR NEW ARTICLE (psssst and gift idea) Writing a Memoir: What Remarkably Bright Creatures Can Teach Us About Characters That Engage Readers. Read more The post ‘Remarkably Bright …

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LitFriends Newsletter: By the Light of Your Memoir

LitFriends: What Didn’t You Write Today? Click Here to Subscribe Dear LitFriends, I’ve been underground lately, figuratively speaking – hiding in my cave of blankets and comfort reads, nursing a heart, heavy with current events. Maybe you’ve been there too. The world has felt a bit too sharp, too loud, too everything. But here’s the …

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