Me, too! ❤️ Thank you, Alice Stephens, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Kosoko Jackson, Meredith Ireland, and @marilock! Such generous and thoughtful and expansive—and hopeful—answers! Thank you all for your work and visions. 🧡

In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, @marilock draws on her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. Download the ebook—on sale now for $2.99—to start reading! bit.ly/37JCxQp

Our closing event is happening now!

Still recovering from the Adoptee Literary Festival #memoir panel that was hilarious, wonderfully deep & so much #emotional #adoptee #truth. Thank you @megangalbraith, Jan Beatty, jenny heijun wills, @SusanDHarness! I am full. #adopteevoices Alice Stephens @MarciCalabrett

We couldn’t get to all your questions during the Q&A, and LaurenJSharkey has generously offered to open her DMs to share some answers ✨

This keynote discussion between Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky and the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses is a wonderful cap to the Adoptee Literary Festival. So glad that @WIRoBooks had the opportunity to serve as a sponsor of such a necessary program.

Paraphrasing Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky from her keynote address at Adoptee Literary Festival: ‘When I hear about adoption as the answer to a need, I think about all the needs unmet.’ This resonated with me so much & it’s something I think about all the time when I think about adoption. #adopteevoices

Amazing day of adoptee voices Adoptee Literary Festival! Congrats to Alice Stephens, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, all the participants/storytellers & keynote speaker Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky. If you missed it, check out the website, support the Fest & buy the books of these great writers from @Loyaltybooks

And that's a wrap! Gratitude to everyone who made the first #adopteelitfest possible: presenters, moderators, advisors, volunteers, sponsors, partners, and all of you readers and viewers who attended! #adopteevoices #adopteetwitter

Check out Adoptee Literary Festival’s “Sizzle Reel: Adoptee Storytellers” here at the link below. Grateful to share my voice alongside my fellow adoptees. 🙏🏾 #AdopteeVoices youtu.be/MMoWQlvUYMw

AdopteeLitFest Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky #keynote-so many great lines: “those people I was is still apart of me,” and @marilock said it but, “my mind is trying to mother me, b/c my mother is gone.” So powerful. I want to weep. #griefstories #adopteevoices Alice Stephens @MarciCalabrett

Really loved how Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky tried 2 interview the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses interviewing her. Fab. conversation! Fav. Matt lines: “we want to want our own extinction,” & “we are all pre-grieving our own extinction.” #griefstories #adopteewriters #adopteevoices Alice Stephens @MarciCalabrett

@megangalbraith @adopteelitfest-still baking in your words: “lighting cast a vanilla glow,” “I wanted to think abt #memory as a coping mechanism,” “I was the #secret! In writing abt #shame, I was the embodiment of shame.” I’m dead. #adopteevoices Alice Stephens @MarciCalabrett

Goodnight #memoir, goodnight #fiction, goodnight #ya, goodnight #poetry. #Goodnight Adoptee Literary Festival. I loved it all! #adopteevoices Alice Stephens @MarciCalabrett

I hope the Adoptee Literary Festival inspired lots of #adoptees to pick up their pens and write. You have an important story to tell.

Thank you to Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky and the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses for their historic conversation, a perfect ending to an amazing day. Adoptee Literary Festival

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Excited to be selected for the Adoptee Literary Festival 2025's "sizzle reel" of emerging and established adoptee writers, which will show "the depth and breadth of adoptee voices, furthering authentic adoptee narratives." #adoption #adoptees #adopt #adoptionjourney #adopteevoices

The Adoptee Literary Festival is today. Although registration appears to be closed, you can check here for more information. adopteelitfest.com Readings from emerging and established adoptee authors.👇 youtube.com/watch?v=ZvF1TU… Adoptee Literary Festival