Announcements!
Calls for collaborators,
sources, etc…
Updated 12/18/25 …
Note: Thank you to everyone who pitched and otherwise sent in ideas for our Lit Hub reviews project: Maris Kreizman and I who are coordinating the project received a massive response to our call for pitches and such — an amazing sort of problem to have. If you pitched us, you should have now received a response from me (please check your spam folders if you didn’t hear back!!!). If you have questions, please contact me.
For my latest, including story source calls and surveys, see below:
NEW! I’m also offering one-on-one manuscript consultations to nonfiction writers via The Workroom. Learn more about working with me here.
I’m teaching a Master Class on revision, for literary nonfiction writers of all sorts (also via The Workroom). It’ll take place two Saturdays next March. Learn more here.
STORY SOURCE CALL: If you’re fully estranged from your family of origin, feel free to write me if you want to share your story. I’m curious how folks survive the holidays in particular. This is for a potential piece. For anyone who already wrote me with their stories: Thank you.
STORY SOURCE CALL: I’m soliciting stories from trans folks in the U.S. who have moved from a red state to a blue one in recent months especially (for an upcoming potential story). If you — and your family/partner — have moved from a red state to a blue one because of trans-related concerns and you want to share your story with me, please reach out via my contact form. Please share whatever you want to, in your initial email, enough for me to get some sense. If you want, you can specify already that you’ll want anonymity; I’ll follow up if I want to interview you further … Right now I’m just in search of potential sources and an interested editor/publication; once I find the latter, I’ll follow up with some of those who’ve written for proper interviews. Thank you for your time and for sharing with me. (I’m aware others have moved abroad; I’m only interested in covering the domestic angle in this forthcoming potential piece.)
STORY SOURCE CALL: I’m also looking for fellow nonbinary and/or trans folks who’ve received endometriosis diagnoses — whether only post-hysto like me, or whenever. I’m interested in hearing both from those people who’ve taken T and those who’ve not. Please see this public thread for more info on what I’m soliciting and why. In brief, if you’re willing and generous enough to share any of your own story with me, to start: Summarize your tale in as many words or as few as you like, and email me via my contact form here. (You can at any time ask to be anonymous/use a pseudonym; please just state so in your initial query if you prefer so.) Know in general: We can always discuss all such matters furthers once I contact you for further interview. If I want to speak further with you, I may follow up. I will try hard to respond to all these messages individually. Regardless: Know I feel great gratitude to all who share about something so intimate and vulnerable with me. This is just me beginning my research for such a story and I’m still finding the right editor and outlet. (I will interview any potential source before quoting them in any eventual story; your initial email to me is just for me to learn some as I meanwhile search for the right publication.)
NEW! Super brief survey for my sustaining contributors (those who give $5 a month or more via my Buy Me a Coffee) …