I took my #JackChi, Hallie, along for today’s Sunday morning turtle visit. #turtles

WOW. WOW. WOW. "Autobiographical narratives are part of a compulsion to resolve the unresolvable, destined to chase what cannot (should not?) be caught." "You know what happened to you, but you do not know what happened to you." —Emily LaBarge, DOG DAYS @transitbooks.bsky.social

Love this brilliant essay by @jilltalbot.bsky.social in this week's Short Reads (@index.short-reads.org.ap.brid.gy).

“He started writing to me when I left for college. They arrived every week with a rhythm as steady as his love for me.” @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

Hello from the Sunday morning turtle visit. Have a happy week. #turtles

Six years ago today! My daughter (graduating this summer with her MS in Geosciences before beginning her PhD studying volcanoes!) graduated high school at the Texas Motor Speedway. Thanks to @longreads.com for publishing my essay about it back then. longreads.com/2021/06/24/r... #grads #graduation

I love this essay. therumpus.net/2021/06/09/i...

Start your summer #writing on the #road with a virtual 4-week #nonfiction writing class. #writingclass #cnf #literaryessay #memoir jilltalbot.net/register/p/w...

Hallie and her ball on #TongueOutTuesday #Dogs #JackChi #Retro

Brevity magazine has launched its 82nd issue of innovative flash nonfiction, featuring essays from Brenda Miller, Angela Edward, Hea-Ream Lee, Karissa Nevada, L.F. Khouri, Ann MacDonald, Emily W. Blacker, Erin Wood, Michael Singleton, Noel Thistle Tague, Sara Daniels, & T.C. Martin. brevitymag.com

Hanging out with friends on a sunny day #turtles

One of my postcard tables. Authentic postcards from #Paris 1900-1908. #postcards

"Nothing is more dangerous for a writer than to be dismissive. To dismiss means to judge, and nothing kills a piece of writing faster than that. Make room, make room! Let the world in all its shades and tones and terrains take you more fully into the human heart. " ~ Lee Martin

"The most seen and supported I feel in my bipolarity is in literature." @gabemontesanti.bsky.social @nervetowrite.bsky.social #bipolar #bipolardisorder www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

Bravest Turtle Award #turtles

My copy of @gabemontesanti.bsky.social's new memoir, DRAG THING, arrived today! @arsenalpulp.bsky.social #WeekendRead #Memoir #BookSky

"I’m in grad school and living in a house on Rochester Avenue near where it feeds out to the Herbert Hoover Highway, and I’m on my couch in my underwear reading the opening pages of Absalom, Absalom!" Peter Orner @thebeliever.net www.thebeliever.net/end-notes-ab...

"It had started years earlier, this readiness, this turn, on a wheel that rolled back through the choices I had made, one after another, and carried me forward to his office and made me take the hand he offered." Marcia Aldrich's sizzling #literaryessay americanliteraryreview.com/2026/04/17/m...

Your instructor for Writing the Younger Self May 7 - May 28 (Thursdays 11 AM - 1 PM CST) Info here: jilltalbot.net/register/p/w... #writingclass #literaryessay #cnf #amwriting #flashessay

Today's thrift: a Holsag Bulldog Chair for $7.49 (slowly adding seating to my writing room for small writing workshops and mini-readings) #thrifting #literaryessay #writing #reading

Rainy welcome this evening to the postcards from Paris (1900-1908) I will use to make my next postcard table. Here’s the first one I made. #postcards #Paris

I wrote my MA thesis on Redford's adaptation of Maclean's book & interviewed screenwriter, Richard Friedenberg, by phone. During our call, Friedenberg got another (call waiting). He came back on the line: "Well, speak of the devil. That was Bob!" @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/of-nature-ar...

From the Sunday morning turtle visit #turtles #redearedsliders

Writing room with Hallie #JackChi #DogsofBlueSky

What a difference in stability for #HIIT! Nike Free Metcon 6

Learn how to create standout sentences, when and why to flash a fragment or two, and ways to elevate your prose with sentence variety, rhythm, lyricism, and emphasis for an immediate upgrade to your syntactical style! Virtual seminar April 19 jilltalbot.net/register/p/s...

“Living in grief is this: never being alone.” — @criveragarza.bsky.social What an incredible read. Wow.

Friendship #turtles

"I’m trying to think when any memory worth remarking arrived. Did I have memories when I was ten years old?" Sven Birkerts ruminative essay on the past, memory, and our sense of self as a self. thecommononline.org/thirty-seven...

Rainy morning at Sonic

My mother died eight years ago today. An essay I wrote when she had been gone "a little over a year." A year. Eight years. More years. It's all now. www.therupturemag.com/rupture/a-ma...

Hallie thinking about things. #dogs #JackChi

"The weight of what I remember is a force strong enough to eject me from the world, but it is also the only road that returns me to it." Jamila Osman, Winner of the 2025 Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest in the new issue of @prairie-schooner.bsky.social prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/drea...

Check out the incredible inaugural issue of @nervetowrite.bsky.social with its impressive list of contributors and AMAZING work in poetry, nonfiction, art, fiction, and hybrid work. #DisabilityLit #InvisibleIllness #NeurodivergentLit www.nervetowrite.com

The joy of a chew stick.

Roadside Texas bluebonnets #wildflowers

Thrifted a great find & created a road/motel/Greyhound postcard table. #postcards #motels #roads

Class sold out! Next one drops May 7. Or check out other seminars/classes: jilltalbot.net/theessaystat...

Consider: Taylor Swift's various personas throughout her career. Each album = a persona. Now consider album as personal essay. Join me for a 2-hour seminar Thursday, March 26 11 AM - 1 PM CST to learn how to craft your persona for your essay (collection) or memoir. jilltalbot.net/register/p/p...

From this week's Sunday morning turtle visit! (Follow weekly on IG: www.instagram.com/jill.l.talbo...) #turtles

Beginning one week from today! 2 spots left. Let's go! jilltalbot.net/register/p/n...

Thrilled to share that my new collection—Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment—is available for pre-order! It’s a book about belonging & becoming & finding our way together. I hope you will read it. ❤️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

"Whatever experience or material you’re writing about, you’re also writing about the ritual of thinking certain thoughts . . . writing about the self and its repetitive encounters with [what you're writing about]." Elisa Gabbert on John Berger's essay, "Field" www.clunyjournal.com/p/time-and-t...

“The glory of art is that it can not only survive change, it can lead it.” ~ Robert Redford

"To immerse oneself is to express a desire for that fullness, which was why I had gone on this trip." Jack Christian takes readers on the road through the Southwest to check out immersive art (with his grad school buddy, Chuck). Great essay. www.benningtonreview.org/fifteen-chri...

One of my favorite essayists @jillchristman.bsky.social has a new memoir out Tuesday. @univnebpress.bsky.social Pre-order here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

"I bought some yard art: a small plastic-resin fox statue. I like to move him around our front yard every few days—"—Steven Church @riverteeth.bsky.social Beautiful Things #essay riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

"[M]emoirists reveal how movement—crossing borders, traversing cities, changing addresses—was fundamental to the process of reinventing their identities and their life circumstances." Kimberley Kinder @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/whose-journe...

"Recognition relies on something that already exists, and this is Woolf’s ideal of writing: it calls forth what already exists, but is not yet known, in the reader." — Frances Lindemann @theparisreivew.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02...

"[My accent] does appear, however fleetingly, and without my permission." I so get this essay by Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza @lithub.com.web.brid.gy People tell me they hear the Texas in my voice when I talk on the phone or after I've had a glass or two of wine. lithub.com/losing-my-so...