The Magpie
Kelly McMasters, Courtney Maum, Nancy Reddy, Jeannine Ouellette, Amy Shearn, Joanna Rakoff, Teresa Wong, Barri Grant, Chloé Caldwell, Elizabeth Greenwood, Elizabeth Austin, Olga Katsovskiy, Beth KephartThe Magpie is a collection of shiny objects about writing, diaries, creativity, hopes, and obsessions.
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SHOW ME YOUR DIARY with sci-fi & fantasy writer Rebecca Zornow
Hello there! Welcome to The Magpie, a newsletter that serves as a collection of shiny objects about writing, creativity, hopes, and obsessions. My current obsession is diaries and the people who keep them. Since I started keeping one at age...
SHOW ME YOUR DIARY with poet Margot Kahn
Hello there! Welcome to The Magpie, a newsletter that serves as a collection of shiny objects about writing, creativity, hopes, and obsessions. My current obsession is diaries and the people who keep them. Since I started keeping one at age...
SHOW ME YOUR DIARY with collage artist Janice McDonald
Hello there! Welcome to The Magpie, a newsletter that serves as a collection of shiny objects about writing, creativity, hopes, and obsessions. My current obsession is diaries and the people who keep them. Since I started keeping one at age...
SHOW ME YOUR DIARY
Hello there! Welcome to The Magpie, a newsletter that serves as a collection of shiny objects about writing, creativity, hopes, and obsessions. My current obsession is diaries and the people who write them. Since I started keeping one at ag...
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Substack: The Magpie Books: THE LEAVING SEASON: A Memoir in Essays + WANTING: Women Writing About Desire Teaching: Hofstra U
Publishing expert + author w/20+ years experience in marketing, branding and storytelling, on a mission to help writers learn how to help themselves. Weekly posts on Wednesdays + feedback opportunities for paid subscribers. www.courtneymaum.com
obsessed with making space for writing in a busy life & helping you do that, too. newest \ud83d\udcda: THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH, St. Martin's 2025. essays in Slate, Romper & other places. author of Pocket Universe & The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood.
Jeannine Ouellette is the author of the memoir The Part That Burns (Split/Lip Press, 2021) and founder/artistic director of Writing in the Dark, an independent creative writing school.
Author of 5 novels, including Dear Edna Sloane (Red Hen Press, 2024) & Animal Instinct (Putnam, 2025). Essays in New York Times Modern Love, Oprah Daily, & elsewhere. Teaches writing & works 1:1 with writers.
Author of the novel A Fortunate Age and the memoir My Salinger Year, now a movie starring Margaret Qualley as me. Next: The Fifth Passenger, a memoir, from Little, Brown.
author & illustrator – always overthinking, somewhat underdressed www.byteresawong.com
founder & chief grief officer™ of The Memory Circle| hope dealer since '93.
TRYING, a memoir on queer reawakening, divorce and unexplained infertility is out now from Graywolf Press. Author of the national bestseller WOMEN. Writing support: www.scrappyliterary.com www.chloesimonne.com
Author of EVERYDAY INTUITION: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice (May 2025), LOVE IN THE TIME OF INCARCERATION and PLAYING DEAD. Issuer of full-throated recommendations; Bravo lover
Elizabeth Austin is a writer and solo cancer mom. Her work has been published with The New York Times, Time, Harper's Bazaar, Electric Lit, Narratively, McSweeney's, and others. Find out more at writingelizabeth.com and on Instagram @writingelizabeth
Olga Katsovskiy, writer/editor/educator, is a writing instructor and works in healthcare. Editor-in-Chief at JMWW journal.
I am a National Book Award finalist and paper artist. Books include Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News and My Life in Paper. Paper art at bind-arts.com. I write of craft on the Stack. Memoir resources at junctureworkshops.com
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