LitFriends: Our Choices Shape Who Gets Power “Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” — Thomas Wolfe Something recently surprised me. In all the time I’ve been sharing books through LitFriends, blog posts, and social media, only one person has used my independent bookstore link. One. Most people appear to default to …
LitFriends: What if the World is a Mess Because You’ve Been Silent? “Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It’s confusion.” — Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies It is easy to look at the world right now and think: what a mess. The noise is relentless. The problems are …
LitFriends: Refuse to Behave “Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.” — David Foster Wallace We weigh risks every day in the words we use. If you’re looking for places to publish those words, see the featured calls for submission at the end of this newsletter. I’m feeling that risk myself right now. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …