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ABANDONING MYSELF AND CALLING IT SURRENDER
on shifting spirituality & using spiritual practices to hide from ourselves
Oct 12, 2022 • Eryn Sunnolia
welcome to joy notes
writings on being stretched wide by beauty, grief, and the full spectrum of aliveness
Jul 20, 2022 • Eryn Sunnolia
How to Start a Novel (for Poets and Creative Nonfiction Writers)
"The difference between memoir and fiction is permission to lie." - Elizabeth McCracken
Dec 30, 2025 • Eryn Sunnolia
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Dealing with creative rejection
Sep 30, 2023 • Eryn Sunnolia
Craft lessons from Saltburn for writers
Feb 2, 2024 • Eryn Sunnolia
Lessons learned from writing erotica
Jun 18, 2024 • Eryn Sunnolia
Social media only ever gave me the promise of being happy, not actual happiness
May 18, 2023 • Eryn Sunnolia
Being in The Hanged One card
Feb 29, 2024 • Eryn Sunnolia
TRANSFORMATIONAL PAIN & THE PAIN THAT KEEPS US STUCK
Dec 29, 2022 • Eryn Sunnolia
Ordinary Moments: Writing Flash Creative Nonfiction
writing the moments that make up our lives
Jun 17, 2025 • Eryn Sunnolia
Wedding Planning
a flash essay in River Teeth's Beautiful Things. + see you at AWP?
Mar 22, 2025 • Eryn Sunnolia
I-70 West
more flash creative nonfic for you!
Jan 31, 2025 • Eryn Sunnolia
Honeymoon
a flash piece in TINGE Magazine
Jan 3, 2025 • Eryn Sunnolia
Substitute
a flash creative non-fiction piece in Vast Chasm
Oct 24, 2024 • Eryn Sunnolia
7 Books Reimagining Queer Histories
a reading list for Electric Literature
Jul 30, 2024 • Eryn Sunnolia
Lessons learned from writing erotica
In April, a queer magazine put out a pitch call for queer erotica pieces and I sent one in.
Jun 18, 2024 • Eryn Sunnolia
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dispatches from a creative, queer life. writing about being stretched wide by beauty, grief, and the full spectrum of aliveness.
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