Memoiring Book Club + Writing Community
By Well+Good cofounder Melisse Gelula MARCH 📖 Woman of Interest by Tracy O’Neill 🔗 Join the Substack + ZOOM with authors!
@lillydancyger.bsky.social
author of Negative Space and First Love, editor at Barrelhouse Books
@jennybartoy.bsky.social
Writer & Editor | NO CONTACT: 28 WRITERS ON FAMILY ESTRANGEMENT (Catapult, 2026) | Author profiles, interviews & book reviews | Developmental editing & manuscript critique | Reading lit fiction, mystery, memoir | PNW lefty
@hippocampusmag.bsky.social
Online creative nonfiction magazine est. 2010: memoir essays, flash cnf, articles, reviews, interviews + books, events, conference & community. Posts by Donna.
@thewriteaimee.bsky.social
Memoirist, essayist, adoptee, bird person, word nerd, queer Gen X grouch. Unapologetically type A. Writing instructor and editor. Disability advocate. Skating fan.⛸️ Words in The Rumpus, NYT, Atticus Review, WaPo, Poets & Writers, etc. Also on Substack!
@jillchristman.bsky.social
Author of IF THIS WERE FICTION (U Nebraska Press). Editor at RIVER TEETH (riverteethjournal.com) & BEAUTIFUL THINGS: follow us here @riverteeth.bsky.social! NEA Prose Fellow. Ball State Professor. Raised up by hippies. Kind of witchy. jillchristman.com
@opensecretsmag.bsky.social
Open Secrets Magazine is a home for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.” Personal storytelling summit Open Secrets Live in NYC on May 3 with keynote speaker Jane Pratt. https://opensecretsmagazine.com
@rachelkramerbussel.bsky.social
Writer on books, culture, my life. Editor, @opensecretsmag.bsky.social https://opensecretsmagazine.com Author, How to Write Erotica. Editing anthology about our attachments to our belongings. https://linktr.ee/rkbwriter and rachelkramerbussel.com
@lauradigiovine.bsky.social
Literary Publicist | Writer | Editor | Associate Director of Publicity at Page One Media | page1m.com
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@thelincoln.bsky.social
Author and professor type person. SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24 Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
@dodai.bsky.social
writer at large on the Metro desk at The New York Times ✨ raised in Manhattan ✨ https://www.nytimes.com/by/dodai-stewart#latest ✨ https://instagram.com/dodai
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@thenation.com
Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
@rtraister.bsky.social
Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack.
@mtaeckens.bsky.social
Co-founder, Broadside PR > michael at broadsidepr dot com Lit Agent, Massie & McQuilkin > michael at mmqlit dot com https://michaeltaeckenspr.com/about-me/
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@katemckean.bsky.social
Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/97816
@thefrontlist.org
Culture journalist @Esquire and elsewhere. Author of A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (One Signal, Dec 2025). Newsletter: https://linktr.ee/adamm0rgan Tips: adam@thefrontlist.org
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
@sorayanadiamcdonald.com
I write about culture, history, and power. Pulitzer finalist for criticism. currently: working on a book previously: The Undefeated, WaPo (Pre-Bezos, mostly) she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
@adamdalva.bsky.social
Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Fiction Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
@jeannakadlec.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 queer ex-evangelical witchy author // HERETIC: A MEMOIR (2022, Harper) // astrology for writers (jeannakadlec.substack.com) // Co-host at the Call Your Coven podcast // NYC, she/her // get in touch jeannakadlec.com
@esmewang.com
📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise 🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller 🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com 🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her 🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
@alicewu.bsky.social
Filmmaker. Improviser. Order muppet. #SavingFace (Sony Classics) #TheHalfOfIt (Netflix)
@ortile.bsky.social
🇵🇭 Author of THE GROOM WILL KEEP HIS NAME. Editor, Condé Nast Traveler.
@brittanymeansit.bsky.social
The gay cousin. Author of HELL IF WE DON'T CHANGE OUR WAYS http://www.brittanymeans.com
@readandbreathe.bsky.social
Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025). www.michelefilgate.com
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
It’s a two-book year! IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf coming in April. PAPER CROWN: Poems coming in August. https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
The other one. Poet & NYT bestselling author. Next 📚: DEAR WRITER (April 2025), THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT (Sept 2025), A SUIT OR A SUITCASE (March 2026).
@mdbell79.bsky.social
Writer, teacher. Out now: APPLESEED, a novel (2021, @marinerbooks). REFUSE TO BE DONE, a guide to novel revision (2022, @soho_press). He/him.
@dorothyproject.bsky.social
St. Louis-based press. Fiction & near fiction. Two books each Fall. Renee Gladman. Leonora Carrington. Cristina Rivera Garza. Nathalie Léger. Amina Cain. Giada Scodellaro. Pip Adam. Kate Briggs. Etc. Distributed by New York Review Books. dorothyproject.com
@rebeccamakkai.bsky.social
Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too. rebeccamakkai.substack.com https://rebeccamakkai.com
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti 📚 My new book 'Abortion' is out now prh.com/abortion
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | Eeyore at the gay club | Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
@megpillow.bsky.social
Writer | Dr. | Project Manager for Roxane Gay | Co-editor The Audacity | 🌈🌱| Rep’d by Alyssa Jennette | Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@mspackyetti.bsky.social
the NY post once called me a “racial rabble rouser.” points for alliteration. writer. talker. strategist. activist. Black. loved. grateful. free. subscribe to #UNDISTRACTED wherever pods are 🙏🏾.
@jamiattenberg.bsky.social
Living in NOLA with a small pup. Author of 10 books. The latest: 1000 WORDS and A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. Come write with me: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@tayari.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
@kenyonreview.bsky.social
In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships https://linktr.ee/KenyonReview