For those who need it, here’s my Catapult pitch guide. We pay a floor of $200. Send me pitches or short drafts (1.5k–2k words) for essays that mix personal narrative and cultural commentary/research/reporting. Instructions in the doc. 💛💐 docs.google.com/document/d/1x6…

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Reposting my essay from Al Jazeera last year on Dissociation. So many of the pictures I'm seeing of Amber Heard remind me of a woman out of body. #IStandWithAmberHeard #MentalHealthAwareness #cherylstrayed aljazeera.com/features/2021/…

If I knew Amber Heard, I'd send her this. #IStandWithAmberHeard poetrysociety.org/poems/to-the-w…

My Latest essay on Dissociation, an excerpt from my memoir, is published today! #outofbody #enddv yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-a…

"It’s much easier right now to sell a memoir with a larger cultural focus, one that illuminates something we’re all thinking about right now—or should be." @guerillamemoir brevity.wordpress.com/2022/06/09/wit…

WE'RE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! We like writing and art that subvert; fresh can be slow, sensitive can be rough, bold can be quiet. Read our full submissions guidelines and submit your work here: sandjournal.com/submit/ Please RT & share!

Last winter, I began looking into a historic wolf hunt on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park. Nearly eight months later, here’s the end result. The wildest story I’ve ever reported. theintercept.com/2022/07/20/wol…

"Mailhot writes with clear, lovely prose that makes me ache, but not wholly in a sad way." Autumn Fourkiller recommends @TereseMarieM in Mother Jones in her reading list on rebirth and Native voices: longreads.com/2022/08/23/ind… #longreads

I’m making plans to see my entire family for the first time in three years. I want to read essays and stories for The Sun magazine that explore the meaning of home. Message me!

CALL FOR PITCHES: Longreads wants your words! We take essay submissions, feature pitches, reading list ideas, and other queries, and we pay competitive rates for accepted work. Here’s a 🧵 of what the editors are looking for: longreads.com/submissions/

Can’t wait for Heather Sellers’ next webinar!

We Are Poetry Well youtu.be/5s2A1fbtUbQ via YouTube

"I wasn’t alone. I knew I was going to be okay." A writer on how being heard and talking about suicide ideation helped her find hope and purpose in staying alive ⤵️ aje.io/97u5vp

Thanks to Al Jazeera English for publishing my personal essay on suicide in this month of September: Month of Suicide Prevention in the US.

"It is time we teach boys and men that they are stronger, not weaker, when they are aware of and comfortable with their emotions." — #AJOpinion by Joyce Hayden ⤵️ aje.io/bxkz4f

‘Adolescence’ is right: We’re failing both young men and women aje.io/m249jb via Al Jazeera English