Phyllis Brotherton

Essayist, memoirist, lover of all things literary.

[SarahFawn Montgomery @SF_Montgomery]

Many thanks to @artichokeheart and @SoDakReview for publishing my poem about the protections we build to keep us safe from rocky relationships and rising tides. Honored to share pages with some of my favorites.

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

Thrilled to once again open our submissions portal. Send us your freshest, most vivid, "not one word wasted" flash nonfiction. We love distinctive voice and carefully-crafted language. https://t.co/ccHQ11MPOr

[Phyllis Brotherton @phyllisbwrites]

Check out @cindysea429’s interview @SugarSugarSalt_

[Cindy Bradley @cindysea429]

I'm thrilled to take part in @SugarSugarSalt_'s new feature on what past contributors have been up to. Check it out!

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Julia Roberts and George Clooney, co-chairs of the big Biden fundraiser in LA, with Presidents Biden and Obama.

[Phyllis Brotherton @phyllisbwrites]

You will love this incredible essay by Cindy Bradley published by The Missouri Review, invoking an earlier, very different time in Southern California. Congrats!

[Cindy Bradley @cindysea429]

I'm beyond thrilled to share that my essay "Jungleland" has been accepted by The Missouri Review for their Blast series. Pinch me!
https://t.co/lSDldOCZ71

[Phyllis Brotherton @phyllisbwrites]

@cindysea429 So well-deserved. Congrats, Cindy!

[Marcia Aldrich @AldrichMax]

Happy to have an essay "On Difficulty" in this grand 10th Anniversary Issue. Lovely readings all.

[Under the Sun online @undersunonline]

We're thrilled to announce our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominations, including @StevenWChurch, @RenCedar, @MarkLiebenow2, Wes Lee, Kathleen Melin, and Elaine Palencia. Congrats all! You can read their fabulous words here:
https://t.co/aGEo0yhhue

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“I don’t think that if I live to be eighty, I’m going to wish I’d spent more hours in the gym or kept my house a lot cleaner. I’m going to wish I had swum more unashamedly, made more mistakes, spaced out more, rested….So this informs how I live now.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[James Carville @JamesCarville]

This guy’s going to win.

[Phyllis Brotherton @phyllisbwrites]

Writing Lessons from a Glorious Glutes Class | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog https://t.co/MQUgb4anbm

[SarahFawn Montgomery @SF_Montgomery]

It is fitting that I am having a bad pain day when this @CatapultStory piece goes live. I’m eager to share this craft essay a/b where I write as a disabled writer, unlearning ableist writing advice, and how I wrote my @splitlippress HALFWAY FROM HOME. ♿️

https://t.co/uYuCG1vRJj

[Phyllis Brotherton @phyllisbwrites]

A beautiful and powerful book. Congrats, @SF_Montgomery

[SarahFawn Montgomery @SF_Montgomery]

HALFWAY FROM HOME is out today!!! I’m so excited to share this lyric essay collection on climate change, nostalgia, and searching for home during emotional and environmental collapse.

[SarahFawn Montgomery @SF_Montgomery]

One of my favorite ways to write an essay is through collage. Here's how! Pick a central theme. Time, for example. 1/

[Phyllis Brotherton @phyllisbwrites]

@SF_Montgomery Brilliance!

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

Congratulations to @svenbirkerts whose Brevity essay "the Voice of Things" is listed as a 2022 Notable in Best American Essays.

[Phyllis Brotherton @phyllisbwrites]

@brevitymag @svenbirkerts Awesome!

[Randon Billings Noble @RandonNoble]

T H R I L L E D to learn that TWO After the Art essays have made the Best American Essay Notable list! @HeidiCzerwiec's "A Digression" from 2021 and @DanaDelibovi's "Heavy Is the Root of Light" from 2020. You can read them here:
https://t.co/V7PkwM9pCL
https://t.co/PHzzM4Pv9H
🎉

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

"Get out into the world and ask yourself what you think. Cultivate opinions. Take things personally. Enter the conversation!" ~ Dinah Lenney

[Phyllis Brotherton @phyllisbwrites]

A must read from @EthanChatagnier

[Elizabeth S Martin @ejsmartin3]

So ready for @EthanChatagnier to punch me in the heart with science