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My preorder of the great Kelly Link's WHITE CAT, B

My preorder of the great Kelly Link's WHITE CAT, BLACK DOG arrived from beloved @bookmoonbooks, with some special goodies. I am so excited to read it. And I couldn't resist photos with my black cat and white dog on this rainy Saturday night.

Wanda is pleased by developments in the defamation

Wanda is pleased by developments in the defamation suit against FOX and a certain indictment.

I'll be talking with @dionnelford about her transc

I'll be talking with @dionnelford about her transcendent first book, GO BACK AND GET IT: A MEMOIR OF RACE, INHERITANCE, AND INTERGENERATIONAL HEALING, at @strandbookstore next Thursday, April 6. While Dionne and I haven’t met in person yet, I’ve been a fan of her work for many years. As she said when we were corresponding recently, our conversation in April will feel like a continuation of one we’ve been having through our writing for ages.

Come on out and join in—tickets link in stories!

I'm offering a new stand-alone class: Family Histo

I'm offering a new stand-alone class: Family History With Imagination.

This class overlaps a little with part of the Writing About Ancestor Trouble course I offered, but is structured to allow more people to join, and will focus on cultivating imagination around tough family histories and how to draw on creativity transparently in nonfiction while also prioritizing fact and establishing how the two intersect. (Fiction and poetry writers, and writers of uncertain genre projects, are also warmly welcome.)

Here's the course description:

It's entirely possible to write factually about complex family history and harms while making space for creativity. Come explore ways of integrating empiricism, feeling, and imagination. Bring a pen, notebook, and index cards. Also, facts, questions, feelings, intuitions, synchronicities, speculations, and a sense of play.

This online course is intended to be generative and supportive, and will be held as a presentation with writing exercises, occasional periods of participation by chat, and an opportunity for questions toward the end.

Suggested reading and the Zoom link will be provided one week before the class start date. A recording will be available for one month after the class date.

A request to participate indicates your agreement to preserve confidentiality around disclosures by participants and that you are entering the class in open-hearted good faith. The scholarship available for a BIPOC student has been claimed, as has the one for an LBGTQI+ student, but please reach out if the cost is prohibitive. Fifteen percent of the proceeds will be split between the Manna-hatta Fund, the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness, and the Black-led Small Business Capital Fund of Mississippi.

Date: June 18, 2023

Time: 1 - 4 PM ET

Cost: $50

Link in bio. (And a small note: it will be necessary to create an account on the Maud's Place network and then go into the class space there to sign up. I’ll respond to questions as quickly as possible but please bear with me if you don’t hear back immediately.)

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