After a month-long hiatus due to a broken laptop, tinymemoir.substack.com is coming back. Dear authors and readers, I thank you for your patience and your kindness! #WritingCommunity #litmag

Tiny Memoir lit mag submissions are open as of today. Submit your 50-200 word memoirs here! #WritingCommunity #litmag open.substack.com/pub/tinymemo...

Tiny Memoir #litmag submissions will open in September. Here’s the info. Is anything missing? #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/tinymemo...

It's already been composed and edited, an hour after reading the Call for Submissions.

I am allergic to my mother. #WIPSnips

“I bore witness to what he grew up with—the frying pans across the forehead from his mom—when I stayed at his sister's house and saw her doing it to my step-neices. It really was as brutal as it sounds, and much more methodical and frequent than his one-time racket smash with me.” Memoir #WIPSnips

Once again:

What do you expect of Memoir? #amwriting #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/nonevery...

A grotesque autofiction parody followed by an attempt to define autofiction #amwriting #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/nonevery...

Today’s #WIPSnips word is “trash” #WritingCommunity #WriteSky “…there’s no danger to conjuring up happiness, joy, or even sadness, grief, loss - you can write through grins and tears, but you probably shouldn't write through a psychotic episode unless you're going to trash the writing after…”

The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir #amwriting #WriteSky open.substack.com/pub/nonevery...

This piece is about trying / failing to break assumptions. Each person is living a life filled with all sorts of good and bad and exciting and horrifying experiences. If I just go by their buns and their outfits, I'll never learn anything interesting. #amwriting open.substack.com/pub/nonevery...

#WIPSnips July 19 word is “search” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“My view on suicide is contingent upon a system that doesn’t exist. I believe that everyone should have a choice, but that there should be a system in place that counsels people through that choice and offers a humane way to follow through with it.” —Rey Somatics open.substack.com/pub/nonevery...

Not only did the Alpha give me a different way to approach writing, but it also reignited my passion for writing itself. Thank you, @adriannanine.bsky.social, for interviewing me about this handy gadget! www.creativityundercapitalism.com/p/does-the-f...

One thing I’d write more about if I had permission is how I’ve never figured out mothering. But I'm afraid of hurting people... Read more: noneverything.substack.com/p/bad-mother... #motherhood #amwriting #ElissaAltman #permission

Tiny Memoir #litmag submissions will open in September. Here’s the info. Is anything missing? #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/tinymemo...

So excited to have a piece in this forthcoming anthology!!

Fitting In: A 190-word memoir open.substack.com/pub/tinymemo...

I hereby admit to failing the @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge…somewhere along the way I lost track of days and skipped one, then another. I see we’re on day 10 when I haven’t posted day 8 yet, so I submit to failure. Thank you for the opportunity to read so many great pieces of writing!

The places I’ve lived — a partial list with occasionally humorous one-line descriptions #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amwriting What are some memorable places you’ve lived? open.substack.com/pub/nonevery...

The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 7 Theme: Bipolar motherhood Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social 1) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/a... Autophagy by Justin Lawrence Daugherty 2) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/r... Running After Her by Meg LeDuc

The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 6 Theme: Stormy weather Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social 1) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/m... Mountain Milk by Shubha Venugopal 2) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/f... Foundation by Paul Crenshaw

In today’s interview with author Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 we talk about redefining success in the face of psychiatric disability noneverything.substack.com/p/the-defini... Get in touch if you'd like to be interviewed about illness, identity, and the writing process. #WritingCommunity

The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 5 Theme: Creepy-crawlies Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social 1) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/t... Trespassers by Angus Woodward 2) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/d... Driver Ants by Sari Fordham

Oh, this is really, really good.

forget-me-nots— I wait for my heart to weigh less #haiku #micropoetry #senryu #poetry

Am I the only one who couldn’t get into “Call Me by Your Name”? The characters seemed so terribly pretentious…

The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 4 Theme: Gender theory from 10 years ago Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social 1) Genderfuck by Madison Hoffman brevitymag.com/nonfiction/g... 2) Bornstein’s Theory of Relativity by Kate Bornstein brevitymag.com/nonfiction/b...

They also did it to me, so be careful!!

Every day for 2 weeks I’m sharing pairs of essays from Brevity Journal @dintywmoore.bsky.social with a theme that connects the two in each pair. Thank you @smokelong.bsky.social for this challenge!

Not sure where to place your tiny memoir fragments? There’s a new lit mag coming on the scene. #WriteSky tinymemoir.substack.com

It’s a tiny memoir choose-your-own adventure! #amwriting #WriteSky open.substack.com/pub/nonevery...

My little story about learning English was published by @paragraphplanet.bsky.social - thank you! www.paragraphplanet.com

Goodbye Paris, thank you for being beautiful for me last night.

The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 3 Theme: Bittersweet medical humor Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social 1) Not Nothing by AMY MONTICELLO brevitymag.com/nonfiction/n... 2) Your Personal Prescription Information by SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN brevitymag.com/nonfiction/p...

Talking about chronic illness limitations and medication side effects today in #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Talking about mental health “challenges” and trigger warnings today in WIPSnips #WritingCommunuty #WriteSky #WritePrompts

The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 2 Theme: Schadenfreude Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social 1) Cake by DEBRA GWARTNEY brevitymag.com/nonfiction/c... 2) The Once Wife by HEIDI FETTIG PARTON brevitymag.com/nonfiction/t...

Talking about the hard stuff on #WIPSnips today. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 1 Theme: Signs of Life Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social 1) Decade by Kerry Neville brevitymag.com/nonfiction/d... 2) Dear Facebook Friends by Optimism One brevitymag.com/nonfiction/d...

Please take a break from reading war coverage to read this perfect gem of a #summer essay by Lindsey Pharr in the current Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social mag. You'll thank me later. brevitymag.com/current-issu... #WritingCommunity

Today’s #WIPSnips is from me freewriting about whether I should be writing what I’m writing… #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I just wrote and posted from the sky! That’s #WriteSky - but literally. open.substack.com/pub/nonevery...

Doing an important survey of the #WritingCommunity

What is the most important thing you pack for an international trip after your passport?

Can you guess where this takes place? #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Feeling guilty for my curiosity as I read this. Preferring the psychiatrist to Joan. Anyone else read it? Joan Didion - Notes to John #booksky

Thank you @pulsevoices.org for publishing my piece “First time for everything” on the theme “Hospitalized” pulsevoices.org/pulse-more-v... Trigger warning: suicidal ideation #amwriting #writersky #mentalillness

Guess which show I am describing? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts