An endless entanglement of art and language, prose and paint, seam and stitch. All art and words are copyright@2025 by National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart.
This is where I write the words of my body... words intended to inspire you to know yourself intimately, make friends with messiness, act fully, and live life fully within the wisdom of your very own body, too.
Includes 3 sections: ONCE UPON… a memoir of the heroine’s quest archetype that weaves fairy tale motifs throughout life events, WOVEN: Telling the Heroine's Journey, a monthly newsletter, and THE FAIRY TALE HEROINE, a guide to the heroine's journey.
Author/Poet/Writer - explorer of options. I began writing as a child. My grandmother's love for the nuances of meaning in words continues to open my soul to their magic.
Roots & Branches: themes of Adoptee identity, belonging, separation, loss, heritage. ~ Seasons: image poetry, vignettes, garden reflections, nostalgia ~ Through The Yew Hedge: A Tale of Identity Magic ~ Novella in serial.
I write about the connections we find by giving each other the time and space to be heard. I often get my ideas while walking - the park, in the city, in the woods...wherever my feet take me.
Bright Eyes is a space for finding our way to tough truths, remembering how resilient we really are, and being brave enough to finally share our stories. It’s part reflection, part encouragement, and part permission slip—to look clearly at what shaped us.
📖 Insights into the creative life from bestselling British non-fiction author Beth Kempton. ✍️Home of the SoulCircle writing community. All welcome ❤️ The most popular British 'education' Substack in the world 🥰 recommended by over 1000 other Substacks
Dorothy Rowena Rice is an author, Managing Editor of the nonfiction/arts journal Under the Gum Tree and a Board Member with the Sacramento youth literacy nonprofit, 916 Ink. Dorothy earned an MFA in Creative Writing, from UC Riverside, at 60.
I'm an award-winning writer of 5 books of creative nonfiction including "How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences," "Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction," and "Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You."
You appreciate clear, in-depth guidance. So, do I. On this stack, there are no photos of cats or other cute stuff—only mentoring to become a more skillful, confident writer. Writing is a learned skill mastered via focused, deliberate practice. Join us
Helping writers and creators share their work and connect with readers in meaningful ways. Digging deep into marketing, book launches, and platform development. Get my weekly newsletter every Friday.
I am an author advocate, publisher of She Writes Press, co-founder of Memoir Nation, book industry insider, and champion to writers who show up to the page because they must.
Storyteller/teacher finding joy in my book writing career--mining secrets of family history. Watch out for a new visual series on how I developed my first memoir, Mennonite Daughter.
Journalist and author. Spy daughter. Open-water swimmer. Cancer survivor. I write about gratitude, my life's seasons, and feminist uprisings worldwide for Ms. magazine.
Leslie's memoir and her long journey to find her voice will inspire memoir writers to keep going, no matter what. And to be brave.
- Magic of Memoir, Magic of Fiction by Linda Joy Myers
"There is no path, the path is made by walking."
Have you walked the Camino de Santiago or are you thinking about it?
I'm sharing my photos, reflections and fascinating cultural, historical info.
Hope you'll join our community and share with us!
Turning Life into Fiction, titled after my craft book, 30 years in print, focuses on various forms of life writing from autobiographical fiction to memoir to autofiction.
