Read this essay earlier and read it again and will again. Impressionistic essay by Summer Brennan. Not only in the content, but in the writing, too. I called my daughter after reading. joylandmagazine.com/nonfiction/ber…

People who hate prologues obviously never read great children’s literature when they were young

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'It was a shock at first––marriage––but then indispensable.'
Summer Brennan Joyland Magazine

Friends––I'd like to celebrate this remarkable book, by M.Yuvan, marking a new voice & direction in nature writing.
Mapping the in-between with dazzling ecological literacy, political urgency & metaphysical subtlety.
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Summer Brennan Joyland Magazine Chaya Bhuvaneswar It certainly shone through your words. I shared it with two women friends, who both said it made their day. One stopped in her tracks in line at CVS over the last paragraph. She lost her dad last year & I mine in ‘20 & it was a salve of poignancy for our bruises of grief.💕

'It feels like nothing, feels like you’re fine, like you’re dying, like you’re perfectly fine again.' —from 'Berthe Morisot’s Last Letter' by Summer Brennan (Summer Brennan)

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I'm thrilled to have a new essay out in Joyland Magazine today! It's about the painter Berthe Morisot.

Many thanks to Chaya Bhuvaneswar who guided this essay toward what it is.
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'Grief has no predictable stages.' —from 'Berthe Morisot’s Last Letter' by Summer Brennan, new today on Joyland

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Berthe Morisot’s Last Letter
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CHECK OUT this gorgeous essay by Summer Brennan in Joyland Magazine for a lift to your mood today :)
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I'm working on The Year of Writing Dangerously (from the extremely excellent Summer Brennan ). And, yesterday, had a surprise well wpjld you look at that breakthrough. A good reminder to me that if I show up, repeatedly, even at a blank page, something exciting will happen.

Hiya 👋I'm teaching a year-long workshop called A Year of Writing Dangerously! The goal is to transform your writing practice and complete the first draft of a memoir or collection of essays by the end of the year. If interested, I hope you’ll join me! awritersnotebook.org/p/a-year-of-wr…

Hiya 👋I'm teaching a year-long workshop called A Year of Writing Dangerously! The goal is to transform your writing practice and complete the first draft of a memoir or collection of essays by the end of the year. If interested, I hope you’ll join me! yearofwritingdangerously.substack.com/p/welcome-to-a…

Hiya 👋I'm teaching a year-long workshop called A Year of Writing Dangerously! The goal is to transform your writing practice and complete the first draft of a memoir or collection of essays by the end of the year. If interested, I hope you’ll join me! yearofwritingdangerously.substack.com/p/welcome-to-a…