Jason’s Substack
Jason ProkowiewWriting about child abuse and neglect, the long-term effects of war on families, and life in a fat, Queer body. Author of War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir.
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The People of War Boys (Part 1)
In the lead-up to the release of my debut memoir War Boys from Trio House Press on July 1, 2026, I wanted to introduce some of the people from the book, including one of my oldest friends Kristen “K” Williams.
I met K in 1994 when we were...
Memoirs I Can't Wait to Read
I’ve been in love with memoir since I first read Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in high school. When I found that book, I also found the place in literature I felt most at home. Memoir continues to draw me in like no other w...
Happy New Year, Good Art Friends
Happy New Year! I’m starting 2026 as I ended 2025, reading Samina Najmi’s Sing Me A Circle and feeling grateful to know this person.
This was my fourth year actively pursuing my writing life, and just like in the three years before, I met...
Losing Malcolm
Where were you when Theo Huxtable donned a hideous yellow shirt, sewn for him by his television sister Denise?
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Five Essays I Keep Revisiting
Writing essays is hard work. In my writing group we’ve considered, more than once—and often when one or more of us is spiraling about the process—why we do it at all.
It usually doesn’t pay well, the work might be read by very few, and we’...
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Author of War Boys, a braided memoir about my Russian father’s adoption by Nazis during World War II and the trauma he carried into parenthood. Newly writing about life in my fat Queer body.
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