Litfriends: Discover Why You’re Unbeatable Over Weird AI LitFriends Newsletter from JackWalkerPress.com and AmyLouJenkins.com As narrative nonfiction storytellers in the age of AI, you’ve probably encountered moments where AI tools just miss the mark—like the weird picnic image I recently received, featuring a chef with a stethoscope. While artificial intelligence can assist us by repurposing …
Write Your Memoir With Us This is the summer we begin our memoirs or our next writing project. I’m heading out for a few weeks on a bucket-list trip to Italy. Then a Summer of writing begins. In June, we begin our memoirs using the JUMP method. With homage to the writing process, we learn …
LitFriends Opportunity Alerts, So That Your Story Gets Out Into the World Two New Anthologies to Write for and Two New Courses on their Way LitFriends Newsletter Timothy Ferriss, the American entrepreneur and investor, asks a crucial question: “The question you should be asking isn’t, ‘What do I want?’ or ‘What are my goals?’ but …
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). We seek reflections, and insightful and transformative narratives exploring the multifaceted aging journey. We aim to celebrate the richness, wisdom, and unique experiences that come …
LitFriends Newsletter: Your Voice: An Idea or a Living entity? Writers distort the limitations of time. When Bob Seger wrote Like a Rock, he animated the feeling of being a fit teenager on an endorphin-fueled run. I drove to St Louis to see Seger on his farewell tour. His white hair and small shrunken body, …
UPDATE! Friends has now been published to rave reviews as a great read and a great gift for friends and is available for purchase : FRIENDS. Read more about the Friends anthology. “A thoroughly enjoyable and heartfelt read! This is an invaluable book for anyone seeking insight and comprehension of the convoluted and often misunderstood …
Jack Walker Press seeks personal essays of up to 4000 words on the theme of friendship for a new anthology. Stories must be true. We seek dimensional characterizations of the people you write about. First-person essays preferred. Reprints considered if you own rights to the story. Essays should have a clear beginning, middle, and end …
We thought we had lost our mind. Well, perhaps we had, but we finally found a reason for our altered state. Our submission manager (Green Submissions) had updated software and some of our online submission files came up empty–even though they had been read and scored and some had some preliminary editorial tweaks. Apparently, some …
While our official entry period to our call for personal essays that expore the theme transitions has ended, we have decided to extend the submission deadline to July 30 for our special friends and subscribers. You are a special friend if you have been personally invited or are a JWP reader. We have many wonderful …
Write for a new anthology: Seeking personal essays on the theme of transitions. The theme of transitions can be broadly interpreted.What do we mean by transitions? Perhaps your politics have changed. Perhaps you bought a new dog leash, graduated, got fired, moved, retired, got old, received a terminal diagnosis, became a parent, lost a loved …