GiveNOLA Day is on!! Help us continue to pay readers and workshop teachers! (Also if we get a donation every hour we are entered into a raffle for another $500! $10 goes a long way!)

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We're excited to talk cicadas, bar bathroom graffiti & all things personal essays w/ Kirsten Reneau (@reneauglow) at our May Stories on Sunday! Join us 5/12 at 6 ET (or register to get video). Free/pay-what-you-wish. (1/2) hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-…

Brittany Ackerman interviews Kirsten. about writing prompts, experimental forms in essays, the importance of observation, and her debut collection, SENSITIVE CREATURES (@BellePointPress)

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Harris Reed attends The 2024 Met Gala.

She looks like Julia Stiles in Mona Lisa Smile (complimentary)

Posting from “I love my friends” headquarters

Me: There is no way to rise above in a world meant to cause pain.
Me after gossiping and eating three oysters: Life is worth living, actually.

Haters will say that you cannot find rejuvenation in spending true quality time with Kimberly Wolf 🏴🏳️‍🌈🏴 but the haters are DEVASTATINGLY wrong

Can't wait to be in West Virginia next month and create the most unhinged sheetz croissant.

Lin Manuel Miranda

Thank you so much to the Southern Review of Books for publishing this beautiful review of Sensitive Creatures!

What's your depression show? I like Cutthroat Kitchen. There is something soothing about knowing I may not be in a good place, but at least I'm not making a poke bowl using a shark jaw as my only hand tool.

I think taking a really hot bath with a new bath and body wash, then sitting in front of the fireplace while my dad braids my hair so it will be wavy at school the next day, could fix me.

'By being vulnerable, Reneau leaves a door cracked open in every essay, allowing the reader to access the sliver of hope that shines through.'

Jenny Maattala reviews Kirsten Reneau's SENSITIVE CREATURES. Belle Point Press

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