Nadia Terranova’s last book is a riveting narrative of intergenerational memory work!

October 3 at Rutgers New Brunswick!

So looking forward to a weekend of Jersey City poetry! www.jerseycitypoetryfestival.org

One year ago today we feat. Our Lady of Dead Candies by Edvige Giunta. If you missed it the first time, here's another chance @edvigegiunta.bsky.social‬ #shortstory #writingcommunity. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2024/06/16/o...

Last week, at Margaux Fragoso, NJCU. Writer, we remembered a beloved student, friend, fellow writer. Margaux only published one book, TIGER TIGER, though she wrote much mote. She had so many more books in her. She died at age 38 of ovarian cancer.

Next week, Angel Eduardo at NJCU!

One of the first of many pearls I’m excited to share from my new book, out in May! As TVTropes would say, I had to give a #titledrop to for #TheAllureofElsewhere! #authorquotes #bookquotes #bookbuzz #travelwriter #womenwhotravel

What I need to remember today in my writing: "For the drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent. Above all, it is the narrator who must complicate in order that the subject be given life." Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story

Today I was planning to talk to my students about surrendering to the story. This is the perfect quote! Will use it. Thank you!

Coming September 2, 2025 from Akashic Books!

@cgiunta.bsky.social welcome to bluesky!

You're invited to the 114th Anniversary Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Find details about watching in-person or online here 🔗 rememberthetrianglefire.org/event/offici...

Emily Usher on the unrealistic idealism first-love stories and why more literature should depict crushes in their messy, authentic glory.

This book is changing everything about how we understand what makes lyric essays tick and how we teach them. If you don’t have it yet, go now. You need this book.

Four months before the Triangle fire, on November 26, 1910, another fire, eerily similar, killed women factory workers in Newark. At this event we remember Newark & Triangle together.

Il 2 aprile alle 19.00 ora italiana sarà presentato su Zoom in diretta da Boston il saggio "Le ragazze della Triangle" a cura di @edvigegiunta.bsky.social e Mary Anne Trasciatti. Evento in italiano, registrazione su bit.ly/registrazion... #libri #skylibri #editoriaindipendente

"No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.” ~ Pat Conroy

An extraordinary book about Sicily—MY ISLAND IS LAS VEGAS (2012). The essays are spectacular.

All the Wild Hungers is free on KU! "When her mother is diagnosed with a rare cancer, Karen Babine—cook, collector of vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and aunt—can’t help but wonder: feed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer?"

Domani a #Feminism8 "Le ragazze della #Triangle. Saggi intimi e politici sull’incendio di una fabbrica newyorkese" a cura di @edvigegiunta.bsky.social e Mary Anne Trasciatti. In foto Etrita Abdullahu, del corso Triangle fire di Edvige Giunta, balla sulla coreografia ispirata all'incendio. #libri

Your painful childhood, your relationship with one parent or another, the illness that almost sunk your marriage, the inconsolable loss that rocked your life at age fifty, are deep and worthy subjects for your pen, but that’s not all you have to write about. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/n...

Former NBCC board member @anitafelicelli.bsky.social reviewed Lidia Yuknavitch's "Reading the Waves" for Alta:

Mentoring young writers continues to be a source of joy and reciprocal sustenance. Intergenerational connections are vital! Next week, a wonderful group of young women writers will “spin stories” at New Jersey City University.

Loved chatting with @tamarastarr.bsky.social at @wnyt.bsky.social about #familialhypercholesterolemia, the work of @familyheartfdn.bsky.social, and my new memoir! Learn more at www.caseymulliganwalsh.com

This is invaluable! Sharing with my memoir and speculative memoir students!

When students become teachers: Working with tutors in my firs-year English classes at NJCU has been one of the most rewarding experiences I have had as a teacher. gothictimes.net/13333/uncate...

I love the writing community at NJCU, the university where I am grateful to teach. A beautiful article by a current student, writer Elijah Brown, welcoming home our alum, Jersey City Poet Laureate Melida Rodas gothictimes.net/13294/featur...

"This idea of polishing a piece treats writing like housekeeping—like writing is a problem that can be solved by checking off a list of chores. In reality, writing is not housekeeping.... Writing is claywork and emergence." ~ @taralabovich.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/r...

Le ragazze della Triangle, published in Italy by Iacobelli, is in the US, at my favorite Italian bookstore in Boston, I AM BOOKS! iambooksboston.com/product/le-r...

Welcoming my Italian publisher to Bluesky!

Bloomsbury will publish two books of mine, Writing the Hard Stuff: Turning Difficult Subjects into Meaningful Prose, in October and How to Plant a Billion Trees, about my NYT article, My Abortion at 11 Wasn't a Choice. It Was My Life.

Reading Lidia Yuknavitch’s Reading the Waves now. I have not finished it yet but I already know I NEED to teach it. Can’t stop talking about it. It’s already on my syllabus for The Craft of Memoir, Spring 2026. Magnificent.

My “Zeppelin Girl” flash in Ovunque Siamo. Thank you, Michelle Messina Reale and Cristina Marrocco, wonderful editors. ovunquesiamoweb.com/winter-2025/...?

Tomorrow on campus at New Jersey City University!

I was telling my student of being a research assistant in grad school in pre-internet days and I felt like I was coming from another planet. The intimate, exhilarating discovery of THAT book on a library shelf! Have I become a luddite?!

Essential reading for those of us who teach the art of memoir—to read and reread.

Oh I love this! Perfect reading on my way to visiting Zeus and Pluto, my daughter’s cats!

As a teacher, I am painfully aware of the pervasive dangers of AI as is being used by student to unwittingly silence themselves.

“it is the chaos of reading I’d like to talk about here—and by extension its liminality—and its inherent strangeness—for each and every one of us, both in and out of community.” lithub.com/the-reader-i...

Powerful novel on the Triangle fire by the Italian writer who has inspired me since I was an adolescent in Sicily, the amazing Maria Rosa Cutrufelli www.cultura.trentino.it/Appuntamenti...

Thrilled to welcome back Melida Rodas, Jersey City Poet Laureate, to New Jersey City University! @melidarodas.bsky.social

“There will never be a shortage of one inexhaustible thing—plain old life.” ~ Elizabeth Spencer

@bookshop-org.bsky.social now has ebooks! Who needs a copy of All the Wild Hungers?? “Profound…Anyone who has experienced a family member’s struggle with cancer will be stabbed by recognition throughout this book.”―Minneapolis Star Tribune bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

We are open to submissions for fiction of between 500-2,500w #translations #shortstories, #flashfiction #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

The lesson we learn, relearn, teach, reteach: “As with all aspects of writing, you have to be ruthless, everything has to earn its place, no matter how many pages it took up in my notebooks” Gemma Tizzard link.lithub.com/view/602ea74...

Brava, Prof Edvige Giunta for your love & dedication bringing to life this new Italian edition of Talking to the Girls—heartfelt and illuminating essays about the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 that led to safer conditions for US garment workers and beyond. Le Ragazza della Triangle