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B.K. Jackson

@bkjackson.bsky.social

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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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!

08.08.2025 02:05 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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
18.07.2025 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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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24.05.2025 15:59 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Messy House of Memoir Acclaimed author Jill Bialosky examines the messy house of memoir, including how important the structure is to the story memoirists tell.

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12.05.2025 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations, Heather!

12.05.2025 15:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The Weekly Five Five things for creatives with ADHD...and those without

The latest Weekly Five:
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07.05.2025 20:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The New York Times Moves the Goalposts on ADHD This critical analysis of recent ADHD coverage challenges misconceptions about treatment, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive approach to mental health.

More commentary on the "unsettling" NYTimes article on ADHD
www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-new...

08.05.2025 18:28 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ways of Remembering: A Father and Daughter Navigate Loss Together My father has untreated ADHD. Two years ago, at thirty-nine, I verified a longtime suspicion and was diagnosed with the same disorder. When we talk on the phone we talk at each other rather than to…

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08.05.2025 21:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Her Body As a Wonderland A Q & A with Nina B. Lichtenstein, author of Body: My Life in Parts

Big thanks to author Nina Lichtenstein for adding her voice to the conversation about ADHD and the creative process in Creatively ADHD's first Q & A. creativelyadhd.substack.com/p/her-body-a...

04.05.2025 16:52 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A Hot Take on False Narratives Pushing back on misinformation and disinformation about autism and ADHD

I had to blow off some steam about RFK Jr on autism and The New York Times on ADHD.
What’s your take?
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18.04.2025 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Diane Gottlieb’s beautiful review of Casey Mulligan’s new memoir, which is at once heartbreaking and uplifting. ”https://splitlipthemag.com/reviews/0425/review-of-the-full-catastrophe-all-i-ever-wanted-everything-i-feared

15.04.2025 14:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fellow writers and artists with ADHD, please meet me here on BlueSky @CreativelyADHD and on Instagram @Creatively_ADHD. And I hope you’ll check out the Substack and join the conversation!👇

11.04.2025 18:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you're interested in how ADHD influences the creative process, please follow me on a new account, @creativelyadhd.bsky.social and on Instagram @creatively_adhd. I've also started a new Substack to build community around this topic — I'd love for you to join the conversation there.

04.04.2025 17:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This book is a must for anyone who’s ever wondered if they have the right to tell their story. It should be on every memoirist’s shelf!

24.03.2025 01:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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