Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Notes
Essays
Lit Salon
Story Challenge
The Letter Reimagined
Jeannine Ouellette
Gift a Subscription
Writing Lab + Exercises
Threads
Voice Memos
Strange Containers
Joy & Sorrow
Archive
About
Lit Salon
Latest
Top
Discussions
Big News!!!
CRAFT SCHOOL is finally here! And we are so excited ...
Nov 12
•
Jeannine Ouellette
73
14
5
Notes from a Year Without Answers
On change, loss, and moving ahead one word at a time
Nov 10
•
Jeannine Ouellette
113
44
17
The Astonishing Power of Writing Tiny
Six weeks of writing microflash--starts Wednesday, November 5!
Nov 3
•
Jeannine Ouellette
107
44
13
To the Daughter With Ink On Her Hands
Lir Salon on the struggle of writing about our mothers
Oct 20
•
Jeannine Ouellette
62
40
6
Maybe It's Me Who's The Ghost
Lit Salon on the loneliness of marriage and whether we can write our lives in a whole new direction
Oct 13
•
Jeannine Ouellette
60
26
7
Exhausted in Indiana
Lit Salon takes on the question, "What if I just don't have any talent?"
Sep 29
•
Jeannine Ouellette
72
54
11
Money, Desire, Art
And what happens at the intersections | A conversation with novelist Rafael Frumkin
Sep 22
•
Jeannine Ouellette
and
Rafael Frumkin
38
17
3
Want to Write Better? Get Uncomfortable.
Lit Salon on the urgent necessity of pushing out of your comfort zone in order to write what really matters, make more meaningful art & find truer…
Sep 19
•
Jeannine Ouellette
59
15
7
Eleven Things I’ve Learned Building a Top 101 Website for Writers (Against All Odds and Algorithms)
Writer’s Digest named Writing in the Dark a top 101 writing website for writers in 2024, after just two years on Substack—then, last month, they…
Sep 15
•
Jeannine Ouellette
88
37
9
"I mean, the world is so magnificent. I feel like we’re surrounded by gates and portals that are portals into—I don’t know—into more life…
Lit Salon on the paradoxical power of the literal for unleashing imagination in our lives, our bodies, and on the page ... and thoughts on how the…
Sep 8
•
Jeannine Ouellette
52
22
3
I Am Trying To Tell You Something About Ghosts
And an invocation for the living and the gone
Sep 6
•
Jeannine Ouellette
95
40
18
Dear Heavy: Here's What Worked For Me in My Darkest Hours
Lit Salon on one concrete method that has helped me lurch forward from desolation into a creative project + the surprising power writing from nowhere to…
Sep 5
•
Jeannine Ouellette
53
16
5
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
