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Welcome to The Story Temple
Pull up a chair, beloved. There’s food on the stove.
Apr 1
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The Writer Who Lost the Way
For the writer who’s still showing up to the page and can’t feel anything anymore
Apr 5
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April in The Story Temple
The fire season is here. Here’s what to expect.
Apr 1
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The Persnickety Reader — Stet: An Editor’s Life by Diana Athill
Issue 01 | Spring 2026
Mar 29
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What I Mean When I Say “I Wasn’t Pulled In”
Listen now | Episode no. 05 - Writing While Black
Mar 26
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Why Black Writers Need Shadow Work
Dec 29, 2025
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I’m Building a Temple, Not Running a Newsstand
Aug 2, 2025
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Stop Calling Yourself an “Aspiring” Writer
Aug 31, 2025
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What Type of Editing Do You Actually Need?
Sep 27, 2025
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Fire Practice: The Scene You’re Reporting
On Fire, presence and the writer who steps back from her own work
Mar 22
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What’s Growing Underground
A meditation on the Temple’s origin, worthiness and the faith it takes to build something you can’t see yet
Mar 19
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Who Told You to Write Quiet?
A letter to Black women writers
Mar 15
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Your Body Knows: On What We Were Taught — and What it Costs Our Writing
Listen now | Episode no. 04 - Writing While Black
Mar 12
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The Two Drafts
On the silence wound, the body and what it costs you to keep writing the second version
Mar 8
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Eclipse Eve: What Are You Finally Ready to Release?
The worthiness wound don’t always look like what you think it looks like
Mar 1
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Stop Diluting Your Truth: James Baldwin and the Worthiness Wound
Listen now | Episode no. 03 - Writing While Black
Feb 26
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What White Publishing Took From Us
Strategic theft of our liberation
Feb 22
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Writing Without the Internalized Critic
Practice exercises for writing w/o softening
Feb 17
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The Story Temple
You were taught to write for their approval. To shrink the story. To make it palatable. The Story Temple exists to undo that. This is a spiritual writing community for Black writers reclaiming their voice as ancestral inheritance, not performance.
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