The Linden Review

A journal of creative nonfiction exploring bodily, emotional, spiritual, social, and environmental well-being. Ed @jodykeisner (We’re also on Bluesky)

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Issue 6 is live! Visit TLR's website to explore these fantastic new essays. https://t.co/6OkL1wMYOO

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Join TLR as we celebrate the launch of our incredible sixth issue with readings from Edwina Shaw, Jason Thornberry, & Alina Gharabegian.
Join us on Tuesday, December 10 at 7 p.m. CST. via Zoom: https://t.co/lmoOPoZvbR
Issue 6 cover art: “Move On Up” by artist Spencer Long.

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For today’s prompt, choose an object (a journal, a movie ticket stub, a toy, a vinyl record, etc.) that holds significant meaning relating to a formative friendship. How has the meaning of that object changed over time?

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Writing Prompt:

Reflecting on Roberts’ (@SuzannneRoberts) idea that grief is grief, although with different depths, consider a smaller pool of grief in your life and write about the experience.

Check out TLR's review of Roberts' book: https://t.co/aQrR2ofMWY

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Celebrate this National Native American Heritage Month by reading work from indigenous authors like:
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Joy Harjo @JoyHarjo, Billy-Ray Belcourt @BillyRayB, Deborah A. Miranda, Clayton Thomas-Müller @CreeClayton, Tiffany Midge @TiffanyMidge

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Writing Prompt:

Taking inspiration from this quote, write about a lesson you’ve learned from observing or interacting with an animal. What about that creature or your relationship to it has changed you?

Check out TLR's review of Fine's memoir here:
https://t.co/d6AbhVmh0H

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Here's a writing prompt to try:
Try writing about spiritual, physical, emotional, or environmental “healing” without using the word. What images, scenes, or settings can you draw from to define it for a reader?

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We publish about health broadly construed including environmental well-being.

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Revisit “Saltwater” by Anne Pinkerton and other wonderful essays in issue 4! https://t.co/YFotwUFnql

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Come check out the third annual Bouteloua LitART Fest this Sunday (Sept. 22) at Glacier Creek Prairie! We will be handing out bookmarks and stickers!

At the Fest, there will be a panel, a local artist exhibition, and a reading and conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

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https://t.co/Qar0hWPrqI

New review up today at TLR!

Read Jessie Stewart on Jean Duffy's "Soccer Grannies"

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Reminder for the night owls! 🌙

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Issue #5 has arrived—and it might be our strongest one yet! Eight new essays by our favorite authors on sickness, wellness, caregiving, and more. Check it out!

https://t.co/3vgsJdu53q

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I'm so proud to have an essay in this issue of @TheLindenReview about how often women's testimonies and narratives about their own bodies are rewritten -- or erased entirely -- by the medical establishment. You can find it at the link below, along with seven amazing new essays.

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Issue #5 has arrived—and it might be our strongest one yet! Eight new essays by our favorite authors on sickness, wellness, caregiving, and more. Check it out!

https://t.co/3vgsJdu53q

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New today at TLR: @cal_c_fer reviews @llkirchner_ 's "Blissful Thinking"!

https://t.co/CSYD5Gupue

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Check out this fresh review of @PeterAttiaMD by former TLR editor Lisa Lukecart!

https://t.co/o3Ys3jivkQ

[Karen DeBonis, author @KarenDeBonis]

I remember this essay, Heather. It's spectacular.

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So pleased to have this piece in the virtual pages of TLR!

https://t.co/FrniXdruN4

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So happy to have this essay shared by children’s tumor foundation, an organization that’s doing so much to #endNF a disease that my children and I live with. A piece about parenting, cancer, guilt, and love.

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With great joy we share this beautiful essay @TheLindenReview published by NF Mom Heather Osterman Davis about the summer her daughter was diagnosed w/ an optic pathway glioma.

"When my daughter started losing her sight, I didn’t even notice...."
https://t.co/0aenPZdxVP

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@writesloud Because we publish essays specifically about health, us! We've also published first-time writers. Send them our way!