Adoptee Reading

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Please join WHERE WE COME FROM co-authors @shannongibney.bsky.social, Diane Wilson, John Coy, and me for a free virtual reading and conversation on 4/29 at 10 am CDT sponsored by #OneBookOneMinnesota! <3 Published by @lernerbooks.bsky.social thefriends.org/minnesota-ce...

Thanks for recommending my book, @adopteereading.bsky.social! ONE OF US has a lot to say about adoption, particularly as it was practiced in 1915, when the book is set. There's a section about the Orphan Trains~~

Susan Kiyo Ito: Adoption, Birth Mothers, & Reproductive Justice Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker speak with Susan Kiyo Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere, about adoption, the complexities of meeting one's birth mother, and reproductive freedom.

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Into the Light - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog When you’re like me, you have to lie.It’s been one year since Manny was cast out of his family and driven into the wilderness of the American Southwest. Since then, Manny lives by self-taught rules…

This YA novel follows an exiled queer #transracial adoptee as he searches for his sister while struggling to recover from religious abuse. By award-winning #adoptee author Mark Oshiro. #AdopteeVoices #YoungAdult #fiction #LGBTQIA

Road to Belonging: Establishing a Legacy of Love After Closed Adoption - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog Each person has their own unique story, and as Lynne Leppard’s early life included foster care and adoption, she often found herself wondering about her origins and heritage. Her loyalty to her…

Lynne Leppard's loyalty to her adoptive family was real, but so too was her longing to find out more about her first family. In pages woven with faith, she searches for answers re: identity, security, and belonging. #NewZealand #AdopteeVoices #adoptees #memoir

Thank you to everyone who came out to the “Fighting Tropes, Changing Narratives: BIPOC Adoptees Break Out” panel at #AWP2025 this morning! ✊🏽😭😭

It met so much for us to share our work and be in conversation with us…Let’s keep it up!

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Finding Loretta: An Adopted Daughter's Search to Define Family - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog Adopted as an infant by a naval officer and his wife during the Baby Scoop Era, Diane Wheaton has always heard conflicting versions of the truth of her origins—but it’s not until she is forty-seven…

The story of a #BabyScoopEra adoptee's search for history, roots, and family, including the shocking disclosure of a secret kept by her adoptive parents and her ultimate acceptance of two distinct sets of relatives. #AdopteeVoices #adoptees #memoir

Adopted in secrecy: With help from TMCC’s Open Genealogy Lab, Randall Lorenz learned his true birth story—and finally met his biological family Air Force veteran Randall Lorentz happened to meet research librarian Suzanne Malek. “He wanted to know why his DNA results didn’t match his reality,” Malek said. “We soon discovered his pare…

A DNA test taken to learn about health risks led him to discover, at the age of 66, that the parents he grew up with were not his biological parents. He had been adopted. #LateDiscoveryAdoptee #adoptees #GeneticGenealogy

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The Free, All-Virtual Adoptee Literary Festival Returns Next Saturday, March 22nd! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the... @adopteelitfest.bsky.social #booksky

Seven authors standing in front of tent labeled Adoptee Authors

Seven adopted authors holding up their books at Tucson Festival of Books

Wonderful gathering of 🥚adoptee authors at Tucson Festival of Books!!

Pastorale by Kailee Pedersen, available for preorder. The chapbook cover design features a meadow silhouetted against a blood orange background.

My debut poetry chapbook PASTORALE is now available for preorder from Burnside Review! @burnsidereview.bsky.social

Poems of yearning, Ovid, Nebraska, Puccini, and sapphic mushrooms. (& adoption🥚)

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Our workshops filled up in two days! Registration for the keynote, panels and readings will be open until March 21st. Virtual and free to attend!

"A probing look at what America gets wrong about transracial adoption." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @ucpress.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social @kit-myers.bsky.social #booksky #adoption #trna

Almost Loved: Poems - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog “What if you spend the rest of your life chasing love, only to find her cowering in the pit of your stomach? What then?” Almost Loved follows a former foster child’s search for love and connection,…

Grappling with subjects of abuse, violence, mental health & deeply held grief, this #poetry collection asks, what does it truly mean to be loved in a world where you’re seen as second best? By a former foster child.
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I chose to create the books that didn't exist, the books that I needed as a child, the books that empower adoptees to believe in themselves - on #ReadAcrossAmerica Day, share the #AdopteesLikeMe series with the young adoptees in your life! AdopteesLikeMe.com

Five women of color featured in a panel at a AWP 25: fighting tropes, changing narratives: by Adoptee writers breakout. March 27, 9 AM to 10:15 AM room 501 ABC level two, Los Angeles Convention Center,, Los Angeles. Image of a bird flying out of a cage.

Excited to be with this stellar lineup of adoptee 🥚authors at #AWP25 as we smash the adoption stereotypes in literature!

Thank you to Bodega Magazine for publishing "Cavities and Fillings," another piece in my collection of autofictional short stories. I've had trouble w/ my teeth my whole life, this story explores why while also delving into the double consciousness of the #adoptee.
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The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to form distinct memories of them, their parents die in an untimely fashion. Step two: Orphan acquires caretakers…

Journalist Kristen Martin explores the real history of orphanhood in the US: religious indoctrination at the core of the first orphanages, orphan trains that took parentless children out West, the classism & racism underlying child welfare. buff.ly/4bkPnRw #orphans #adoptees #journalism #history

Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog In this coming-of-age memoir, set in Chicago’s western suburbs between the 1960s and ’80s, adopted twins Julie and Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. Their sisterly bond holds tight…

Adopted twins Julie & Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. But as Julie’s parents continue adding children, some painful & tragic experiences test family values & relationships, causing Julie to question everything.
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This one should be good! @adoptionmosaic.bsky.social

For my late night pals, here is the cover reveal for my new book~~~~~

Showcasing stories of adoptee lives - Korean Quarterly Day-long virtual Adoptee Literary Festival set for March 22, 2025

Thank you to the Korean Quarterly for this write-up on the Adoptee Literary Festival 2025.

Workshops are full, but registration is still open for the keynote address, panels, and readings. See our website (link in comments) to register.

The story of Ireland's adoption history in two institutions A new project will look at the history of Dublin's Temple Hill and Bird's Nest children's homes through interviews with adoptees and employees

"Adoption Rights Alliance estimates that 100,000 unmarried [Irish] women had their children adopted domestically from 1922 to 1998. They also note that at least 1,933 were legally adopted to America, with suggestions of another 10,000 illegally adopted."
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"In Bulgaria, where I am born and live until the age of five, I lose my life.

You never hear it referred to in such a melodramatic way, but that is what it feels like to be adopted at an age you remember."

"The push-and-pull of this loneliness is addictive. Perhaps that’s what it means to be an adoptee: to be unbearably lonely and yet unable to stop reaching."

Tucson Festival of Books to Showcase ADOPTEE AUTHORS March 15-16, 2025. More info at www.tucsonfestivalofbooks.org Book Signings! Panel Discussions! Meet Adoptee authors at Book #223. Featuring: Susan Ito, Marianne Novy, Ann Fessler, Ann Haralambie, Julie Ryan McGue, Monica Hall, E.M. Blake, K.R. DeStefano, Jean Kelly Widner. Organized by Diane Shifflett (blue sky with cacti image)

Hey 🥚adoptee authors are being featured at the Tucson Book Festival next month! I'm really excited to be with other adoptee writers.

Registration for Adoptee Literary Festival 2025 is open! Virtual and free to attend. Workshops are first come, first served, so sign up today at adopteelitfest.com

Because some days, the name of the poet, teacher & mentor who's left an indelible mark on you & your writing over the past decade appears in your inbox, for the most glorious of reasons. Congrats, @sunyungshin.bsky.social !!! May 2026 can't come soon enough~

The Libby Book Awards 2025: Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen, Finalist for Best Horror in the 2025 Libby Book Awards

People Magazine article by Charlotte Phillipp: Libby Book Awards Announces Finalists — See the List! (Exclusive) A panel of over 1,100 librarians will select the best books of 2024 for the second annual Libby Book Awards.

Finalists for Best Horror in the 2025 Libby Book Awards Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen

Shocked and honored to see SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS as a Finalist for Best Horror in the 2025 Libby Awards! @libbyapp.bsky.social

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