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Recommended by Jenn Pike

I'm a story coach, book writing mentor, and author of two memoirs—playing with the intersections of narrative craft and real life.

Writing Our Lives

By Vanessa Mártir

My work is grounded in 1980s Bushwick, Brooklyn, a neglected Black and Brown neighborhood that I left when I was 13. I return to my home hood in my stories to make visible the invisible, & chronicle my life in the tradition of Esmeralda Santiago.

Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

On writing, living with cats, being a widow, movies, running, my current workshops & what we are reading, books, comedy, nature, gardening, friendship, more.

Joyce Carol Oates shares with us her wit and wisdom on writing in digestible bites. Her newsletter is both instructive and inspiring!

- Jenn Pike

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

Sherman Alexie was always held up as an example of a great writer as I was earning my degree in creative writing at University of Washington. I admit there is a sense of awe for me that he and I are both on Substack. And his writing is just as good now as it was then.

- Jenn Pike

thePause Newsletter with Sheryl Kraft

By ThePauseNewsletter with Sheryl Kraft

An inclusive newsletter sharing, dishing and contemplating the evolving world of midlife women's health. We might not have all the answers, but we try to figure it out.

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Three verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays.

I love reading the slices of people's lives they choose to share.

- Jenn Pike