Diane Gottlieb
@DianeGotAuthor
Founder of WomanPause-amplifying voices of women over 50. 2021 @tiferetjournal Nonfiction Prize. 2021 Dancing in the Rain Fellow. Prose/CNF Ed. @EmergeJournal.
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Diane Gottlieb wrote this lovely review of my short piece 'Zaftig' (published in Bending Genres LLC). Her reading of it is so insightful and I feel so lucky to be part of a writing world with such generous people like Diane.
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When I first read 'Zaftig' by Rebecca Tiger in Bending Genres LLC, it totally took my breath away! I knew I had to write something in response. Thank you so much Tiny Molecules for publishing my tiny review of this gorgeous piece of CNF flash! ❤️❤️❤️
'We were in our grandfather’s house, the one with blood-red wet walls that always gave us the creeps. I was wearing our other grandfather’s sweater, the one with a sage-green collar that always reminded me of a kimono' Iris Milton in ELJ Editions ❤️❤️❤️ emergeliteraryjournal.com/what-and-why/
'We have been so long without green things growing in this life. This post-stroke life of constant care for a daughter who has gone dormant' ❤️💔❤️ Nancy Huggett in ELJ Editions emergeliteraryjournal.com/until-a-thing-…
'She gets out of the bag and sees a girl off in the distance, standing on a staircase landing, smiling. Waving at her. She feels comforted. The girl’s presence lets her know everything will be okay' Constance Malloy's The Burning Hearth in ELJ Editions emergeliteraryjournal.com/fourth-and-ash/
'Mom was never without a cigarette. A long slim menthol. She held it between two fingers, waving it about as she spoke, writing in air with the hot red tip' Jean Buie in ELJ Editions ❤️💔❤️ emergeliteraryjournal.com/once-upon-a-ti…
'Trevor arrived on a Wednesday. He sidled in while I was sleeping and next morning he was there, squatting inside me. He was just like any other squatter. Unwanted' Matt Kendrick in ELJ Editions ❤️💔❤️ emergeliteraryjournal.com/trevor/
'I ask you to consider that I’m a unique sequence of words you’ve never before beheld' Jonathan Frank in ELJ Editions ❤️❤️❤️ emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-life-of-an…
'And after forty years, we stand a few feet apart-the silver brushing your forehead, the mole dancing on your shaven lips-and we watch the spectacle unfold with our hearts in our mouths' @sudhasubraman in ELJ Editions emergeliteraryjournal.com/when-i-met-you…
'Mum measured most things in fruit – the Peterson boy’s head was shaped like a pear, the mouse she saw under the stairs was as big as a banana, the cancer was a nectarine in her smokeless throat' Catherine Roberts in ELJ Editions ❤️💔❤️ emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-living-swa…
'At night, they close their eyes and think of their daughters’ faces, try to remember their daughters’ faces, try to remember a smile, a laugh, a breathless voice' Cathy Ulrich in ELJ Editions ❤️💔❤️ emergeliteraryjournal.com/some-have-the-…
Thank you so much to ELJ Editions and Diane Gottlieb for publishing this piece about my chronic illness which is part of a wider essay I posted on my website earlier this year:
emergeliteraryjournal.com/trevor/
Thrilled to have my CNF 'Fourth and Ash' in this issue alongside writers I admire so much. Thanks to Diane Gottlieb for selecting my story and to Ariana for such a lovely issue!
Delighted to have a story in Issue 30 of ELJ Editions! Thanks so much to Diane Gottlieb and Ariana! Additional thanks to Barbara Lock MD, MFA Suzanne Hicks Tara Isabel Zambrano for their brilliant edit suggestions! I love this story so I hope you’ll give it a read 🪻🌔
Love issue 30 of ELJ Editions! Check out the gorgeousness, friends! (And don't forget to read Ariana's editor's note!) ❤️❤️❤️