🧵 Thursday Thread: Share your work!! If you have a Substack, drop a link!

Or drop links to any other work you're are proud of and want to share! If you aren't publishing yet or currently, then tell us what you're working on or worked on recently or want to be working on!

We survive as writers because other writers show up—by reading our work closely, by buying our books when the numbers matter, by speaking our names in rooms we’re not in yet, by celebrating each small, improbable victory as if it were their own.

This mutual tending is not optional or ornamental; it is the infrastructure of a creative life. In a capitalistic world that strews constant obstacles in an artist’s path, writers need to keep one another alive by paying attention, by offering generosity instead of scarcity, by cheering loudly and without irony, and by reminding one another that the work is worth doing—and that none of us has to do it alone.

Last night in CRAFT SCHOOL we had two special guests—Alison McGhee and Julie Schumacher—who have been literary friends and readers for each other’s works-in-progress for more than thirty years. Their stories were inspiring and a timely reminder of what it means for writers to support other writers.

So, let’s share some love for each other’s writing. In the comments, please share links to:

1. Your own Substack

2. A recent or past post you’re proud of

3. Another Substack you love

4. Someone else’s recent or past Substack post you think is extraordinary or important

5. Other work you’ve published that want us to know about

6. Essays, stories, or poems available online that you’ve read lately

7. What you’re working on right now

8. What you want to be working on

If you have written and published books, well, then, feel free to share links to those as well!

Make sure to tell us about what you’re sharing—

Let it be a giant love fest celebration of what we do.

Love,

Jeannine

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