My mom has been sewing masks for us. Here, I’m getting ready to go to the post office – I’m smiling under there, you just can’t see!
Hello hello hello –
Hey, I have a new book out! I’ll tell you more about it at the end of this post, ok?
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writing into this new reality
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Hell hath no fury… (Night Hands now available!)
I am beyond delighted to share the news about a new e-publication with The Massachusetts Review’s Working Titles series! – Jen
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Finish your book! Join us in Dive Deep
Hello writers & writers-to-be!
I hope the summer words are finding their way to the page through your fingers…
Just a reminder: Our third Dive Deep trimester begins in September. Read on for more details, and let me know if you can join us!
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Is it the same if everything’s different?
Good morning, good morning. It’s 5:30 and outside it’s windy and active — the birds are talking and the BART shines its whispery greeting beneath their song. it’s early, my eyes aren’t quite working yet.
In an hour, or less, actually, I’ll get in the shower and get ready to go to work. Many things have changed in the last couple of months. I let go of the workshop space in Oakland. I took a job at Book Passage and then I let that go, too. And I’ve gone back to a job at UCSF — yesterday I managed to read a complete novel during my commute (and then while waiting in line to get the photo for my id badge taken and then while waiting for the new employee training to start and then while on the shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus and then again after I got home and before bed — there may not be nearly so much reading time today).
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why I watch all these shows about cults (patreon)
CW: cults, brief mentions of sexual and psychic and physical abuse
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Your words are waiting: Join us for Meridian or Dive Deep…
Hello writers & writers-to-be!
We’ve had a bit of a break while I’ve been away, but I’m looking forward to gathering with our local bay area writers again! Our Wednesday morning writing group, Meridian Writers, will open to new writers in April, and our second Dive Deep trimester begins in May. Read on for more details, and let me know if you can join us!
~Meridian Writers
A general-topic group open to all writers!
8 Wednesday mornings, 9:30am-12:00pm, beginning April 24
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Register for Odyssey; Join a group to heal, or to develop your intuition or spiritual practice!
Here are a few announcements that have arrived in my inbox recently, and I wanted to make sure to pass them on to you! The first, Odyssey, is a writing workshop open to writers from all over the world; the other three are Bay-Area-local offerings…
1) Apply for Odyssey: For writers of fantasy, SF, and horror
Now in its 24thyear, the Odyssey Writing Workshop is widely considered one of the top programs in the world for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Acclaimed authors, editors and agents serve as guest lecturers, and 59% of graduates have gone on to be professionally published.
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grateful that you are in this world
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Gratitude is a funny, complicated, and sometimes difficult thing.
Thanksgiving can be a challenge for many reasons (not least of which the fact that the story many of us are told about the holiday — that it’s to honor the native peoples of the Americas, who kept the pilgrims/first colonizers from starving to death after settling here — wildly sanitizes and white-washes the true history of European peoples on this continent).
We are told this is a day to be with family– the message is everywhere around us, on television, on social media. But what happens when time with family is toxic for us, or harmful, or just leaves us feeling depressed and sad?
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December writing retreat! Join us for a day of writing in the East Bay hills…
The view from our writing room!
Meridian Writers
an all-day writing retreat!
Saturday, December 1, 10:30am-5:30pm.
(Light breakfast from 9:45-10:30am)
Lunch provided.
Open to all writers, regardless of writing experience or previous participation in Meridian Writers.
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we don’t have to take all of it in
Yesterday I shared this message with the writers in a couple of my workshops, and wanted to expand it a bit here:
Last Thursday, I decided to turn off the news.
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