Adoptee Literary Festival

Bringing together writers who were adopted, fostered, or otherwise displaced to celebrate our stories and reshape traditional narratives.

[Yvonne Liu-Writer & Mental Health Advocate @YvonneLiuWriter]

Excited to be selected for the @AdopteeLitFest 2025's "sizzle reel" of emerging and established adoptee writers, which will show "the depth and breadth of adoptee voices, furthering authentic adoptee narratives." #adoption #adoptees #adopt #adoptionjourney #adopteevoices #openadoption

[Prison Adoptee @PrisonAdoptee]

The Adoptee Literary Festival is today. Although registration appears to be closed, you can check here for more information. https://t.co/LsiwnhqTCu

Readings from emerging and established adoptee authors.👇
https://t.co/eYzFvI5ygk

@AdopteeLitFest

[Literary Hub @lithub]

.@MiamiBookFair's Emerging Writer Fellowships program offers a life-changing experience to fresh literary voices. Application deadline is April 30. Apply today! https://t.co/fjRkEX0J9M [sponsored]

[Alice Stephens @AliceKSStephens]

I hope the @AdopteeLitFest inspired lots of #adoptees to pick up their pens and write. You have an important story to tell.

[Alice Stephens @AliceKSStephens]

Thank you to @nicolesjchung and @salesses for their historic conversation, a perfect ending to an amazing day. @AdopteeLitFest

[Adoptee Literary Festival @AdopteeLitFest]

@miguelsworld01 We couldn’t get to all the wonderful questions received during the Q&A, unfortunately

[MacKids Books @MacKidsBooks]

In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, @marilock draws on her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. Download the ebook—on sale now for $2.99—to start reading! https://t.co/pvK7TlU14M

[Lynne Connor @lynnecwrites]

@megangalbraith @adopteelitfest-still baking in your words: “lighting cast a vanilla glow,” “I wanted to think abt #memory as a coping mechanism,” “I was the #secret! In writing abt #shame, I was the embodiment of shame.” I’m dead. #adopteevoices @AliceKSStephens @MarciCalabrett

[Lynne Connor @lynnecwrites]

Goodnight #memoir, goodnight #fiction, goodnight #ya, goodnight #poetry. #Goodnight @AdopteeLitFest. I loved it all! #adopteevoices @AliceKSStephens @MarciCalabrett

[Sun Yung Shin : meet me on Bluesky & IG @sunyungshin]

Me, too! ❤️ Thank you, @AliceKSStephens, @MarciCalabretta, @KosokoJackson, @MeredithIreland, and @marilock! Such generous and thoughtful and expansive—and hopeful—answers! Thank you all for your work and visions. 🧡

[Lynne Connor @lynnecwrites]

Really loved how @nicolesjchung tried 2 interview @salesses interviewing her. Fab. conversation! Fav. Matt lines: “we want to want our own extinction,” & “we are all pre-grieving our own extinction.” #griefstories #adopteewriters #adopteevoices @AliceKSStephens @MarciCalabrett

[Lynne Connor @lynnecwrites]

AdopteeLitFest @nicolesjchung #keynote-so many great lines: “those people I was is still apart of me,” and @marilock said it but, “my mind is trying to mother me, b/c my mother is gone.” So powerful. I want to weep. #griefstories #adopteevoices @AliceKSStephens @MarciCalabrett

[Greg Santos @moondoggyspad]

Check out @AdopteeLitFest’s “Sizzle Reel: Adoptee Storytellers” here at the link below.

Grateful to share my voice alongside my fellow adoptees. 🙏🏾 #AdopteeVoices

https://t.co/fzzJAcTi9U

[Adoptee Literary Festival @AdopteeLitFest]

And that's a wrap! Gratitude to everyone who made the first #adopteelitfest possible: presenters, moderators, advisors, volunteers, sponsors, partners, and all of you readers and viewers who attended! #adopteevoices #adopteetwitter

[Severance Magazine @Severancemag]

Amazing day of adoptee voices @AdopteeLitFest! Congrats to @AliceKSStephens, @MarciCalabretta, all the participants/storytellers & keynote speaker @nicolesjchung. If you missed it, check out the website, support the Fest & buy the books of these great writers from @Loyaltybooks

[Katie Avila Loughmiller @imkatieavila]

Paraphrasing @nicolesjchung from her keynote address at @AdopteeLitFest: ‘When I hear about adoption as the answer to a need, I think about all the needs unmet.’ This resonated with me so much & it’s something I think about all the time when I think about adoption. #adopteevoices

[Jenny Yacovissi @jbyacovissi]

This keynote discussion between @nicolesjchung and @salesses is a wonderful cap to the @AdopteeLitFest. So glad that @WIRoBooks had the opportunity to serve as a sponsor of such a necessary program.

[Lynne Connor @lynnecwrites]

Still recovering from the @AdopteeLitFest #memoir panel that was hilarious, wonderfully deep & so much #emotional #adoptee #truth. Thank you @megangalbraith, @janbeatty27, @JennyHeijun, @SusanDHarness! I am full. #adopteevoices @AliceKSStephens @MarciCalabrett

[Adoptee Literary Festival @AdopteeLitFest]

We couldn’t get to all your questions during the Q&A, and @theljsharks has generously offered to open her DMs to share some answers ✨