Be Less Careful
Nancy Reddy, Cassie Mannes Murray, Gemma Hartley, Samantha Paige Rosen, Emily Rapp Black, Starr Davis, Priscilla Thomas, Erica Stern, PHL Poetry LFG!!!!, Kelly Grace Thomas, Lisa Sibbettunpacking the bad ideas that steal our joy // creative work & midlife reinvention
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tending our creative practice with Evan Brooke, author of MADELINE MCKNIGHT SIGNS OFF
Hello there! Welcome to Be Less Careful, a newsletter about making space for creative practice in a busy life. Today we’ve got a special guest post in the tending section, which is a mix of essays and interviews about creative practice that...
good creature Kelly Grace Thomas on “saying no to other things so I can say yes to myself”
Hello there! Welcome to Be Less Careful. This is a good creatures interview, a series that explores the intersection of caregiving and creative practice.
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good creature Lisa Sibbett of The Auntie Bulletin on living a “child-ful life” in co-housing
Hello there! Welcome to Be Less Careful. This is a good creatures interview, a series that explores the intersection of caregiving and creative practice.
One quick note before we dive in! Friend of the Newsletter is doing a couple of grea...
a real art monster finishes her work
I’ve spent the last couple of months beset by an ongoing feeling of whelm. Not quite overwhelm, because that implies a crest and a fall, but just whelm. The image that keeps coming to me is a bathtub, filled to the overflow and threatening...
how to leave your life with just six suitcases
Hi friends! As I shared last year right around this time, one of the things I’ve been thinking about a ton is midlife reinvention—both the big things (divorce, marriage, career change) and the smaller shifts so many of us are making in this...
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obsessed with making space for writing in a busy life & helping you do that, too. newest 📚: THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH, St. Martin's 2025. essays in Slate, Romper & other places. author of Pocket Universe & The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood.
Cassie Mannes Murray is a writer, publicist, & former literary agent. She is messy and does not schedule her newsletters well. 💌
Speaker, writing coach, and author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
✍🏻writer-editor-tutor-coach 📚bestselling anthology LIVING, TOGETHER out now from Beacon Press
Writer, professor, editor, book wizard, tiny business owner. I write sad books but I’m really funny. @circeconsulting @craftschool www.craft-school.net
Poet, essayist, and mother writing on justice, faith, and survival. Author of Affidavit (2025) and I Am Mostly Bad Blood (2026).
Priscilla Thomas (she/her). desi writer/editor. Pushcart and Best of the Net nom. founder & co-facilitator of Write Start, Camp Write Start, & CWS Harvest Week.
Writer & Mother. Debut book, FRONTIER: A MEMOIR AND A GHOST STORY, is out from Barrelhouse.
A newsletter highlighting the movers, shakers, and makers in Philly's ever-growing, ever-inspiring poetry communities. Submit info about your poetry, publication, or program to [email protected]. LFG 🦾🦾🦾🦾
Kelly Grace Thomas, poet, writer, & coach, provides the mentorship of an MFA without the price tag. She’s the author of two poetry collections: Future Tense & Boat Burned. Her poems have appeared in The Sun, Adroit, the Los Angeles Review, and more.
Kid whisperer. Auntie to the Aunties.
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