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B.K. Jackson

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Writer/Dev. Editor/Coach—✍️in The Sun, WIRED, HuffPost, LATimes, Memoir—✍️ on abandonment & grief, founder of www.severancemag.com, for NPEs, MPEs, & adoptees. www.bkjacksonwriter.com creativelyadhd.substack.com Memoir, Binders

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REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser | Hippocampus Magazine In the Incredible Longing: Finding Myself in a Near-Cult Experience, Blair Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashr...

A memoir of spiritual longing and self-discovery by @blairglaser.bsky.social

15.02.2026 23:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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The Four Major Losses of the Adoptee - Severance Magazine Lisa "LC" Coppola, LCPC, LMHC, founder, Coppola Counseling & Consultaiton, LLC discusses the most common losses experienced by adoptees.
20.01.2026 15:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Are Your Rooms of Experience? Thoughts on grief and the illusion of control. Also: writing, litmag, and cardiac health news. Welcome in!

By the always deeply thoughtful @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social

18.01.2026 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Praise of Audacity A Q&A With Entrepreneur and Podcaster Alice Draper

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16.12.2025 01:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Marathon No One Sees The loneliness of chronic pain

Important piece by @laurajenx.bsky.social about the things seldom said about pain. spillitall.substack.com/p/the-marath...

12.12.2025 04:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The cover of Whale Road Review's Issue 41, winter 2025, which features an image of Tower 10 with ocean waves in the background at Mission Beach in San Diego.

The cover of Whale Road Review's Issue 41, winter 2025, which features an image of Tower 10 with ocean waves in the background at Mission Beach in San Diego.

Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share!

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41

06.12.2025 17:29 — 👍 63    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 7

Congratulations on your 10th anniversary @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

07.12.2025 01:42 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Master Key to My Life A Q & A with memoirist and journalist Carla Sosenko

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11.11.2025 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I know we shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but really, who doesn't? So I can't wait to read this memoir by @jacgorelick

06.11.2025 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ELJ Editions Submission Manager WELCOME TO ELJ EDITIONS, LTD.Emerge Literary Journal is OPEN to submissions. We are open to submissions in the following windows:1/1-2/287/1-8/30Manuscript submissions are currently CLOSED.A kind remi...

Two weeks left to send your essay! For Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship, an anthology about encountering unknown close family, submit your essays (2000 word max) by Nov 16, 2025. Here's the link: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit
@dianegotauthor.bsky.social

03.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy pub day Heather! Congrats on the launch of this excellent memoir about stepping into your own light. @heathersweeney.bsky.social

28.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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One Big Happy Family - Severance Magazine Actor, producer, screenwriter Lisa Brenner brings her DNA surprise experience and NPE journey to the big screen.

I loved chatting with @lisabrenner212.bsky.social about her new film One Big Happy Family, about her DNA surprise and her NPE journey. severancemag.com/one-big-happ...

08.10.2025 01:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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No One Likes a Critic Nine tips on how to give feedback and a few thoughts on how to receive it

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09.09.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Art of Missing the Point A response to The New Yorker article on DNA surprises

Great article by @laurajenx about a not great article spillitall.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

29.08.2025 17:41 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ELJ Editions Submission Manager WELCOME TO ELJ EDITIONS, LTD.Emerge Literary Journal is OPEN to submissions. We are open to submissions in the following windows:1/1-2/287/1-8/30Manuscript submissions are currently CLOSED.A kind remi...

For Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship (@elj editions), an anthology about encountering unknown close family, submit your essays (2000 word max) by Nov 16, 2025. Questions? DM me. Here's the link: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit
@dianegotauthor.bsky.social

20.08.2025 15:08 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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ADHD Paralysis When Indecision Keeps you From Filling the Blank Page

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17.08.2025 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to this!

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Live Podcast Weekend with Adoption: The Making of Me - Severance Magazine Louise Browne and Sarah Reinhardt are bringing their popular podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me, to life in Washington, D.C. this September

Join @louisebrowne.bsky.social and @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social and their stellar lineup of guests in DC in September.

04.08.2025 18:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Suddenly, Jamaica | Henry Louis Gates Jr. Jamaica Kincaid’s commanding, irreverent work immerses her readers in a black world without explaining or defining its blackness. This seems to be a major departure in the history of African American ...

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01.08.2025 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Riding the Rollercoaster A Q & A with Paulette Perhach
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Cracks in the Foundation - Severance Magazine Excerpt from Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home, by Kimberly Warner

An excerpt from Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery and the Currents that Carry You Home, by Kimberly Warner severancemag.com/cracks-in-th...

02.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared by Casey Mulligan Walsh - The Sunlight Press Walsh looks at grief head on, unflinching, even welcoming it as tangible proof of the love she shares with her dead.

Beautiful review by @eileenvcollins.bsky.social of The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared by @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/06/29/t...

01.07.2025 14:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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My Mom Jayne - Severance Magazine A review of Mariska Hargitay's remarkable documentary film, My Mom Jayne—a story of grief, loss, tragic secrets, and love

As a girl who longed to know about her absent mother, who learned that her beloved dad wasn't her father, and that her father was a handsome Italian man, how could I not love Mariska Hargitay's documentary? severancemag.com/my-mom-jayne/

29.06.2025 00:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Right?

16.06.2025 15:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A master class in essay writing in five paragraphs from @dianegotauthor.bsky.social Mondegreen url:https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/mondegreen/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=beautiful-things-from-river-teeth-5

16.06.2025 15:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Space Out to Create For Writers with ADHD, Learning to Tolerate Boredom Can Boost Creativity

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08.06.2025 17:29 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Sign in to Creatively ADHD

At the top of my list this week is Amie McNee, who makes an impassioned plea for making art no matter what. @inspiredtowrite.bsky.social

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02.06.2025 14:36 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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In Search of Origin - Severance Magazine Being able to tell truthful stories about who we are and where we came from, through the lens of security rather than doubt, adoptees can begin to empower themselves and feel less alone.

The latest article on Severance, by @dr-liz-debetta.bsky.social

29.05.2025 21:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Writing with ADHD When the words don't fall out: an inexhaustive list of ADHD traits that can make writing harder than it needs to be

Do you struggle as a writer with ADHD? You’re not alone.
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29.05.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Weekly(ish) Five Five things for creatives with ADHD...and those without

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