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Offering and receiving what is offered
Toward the start of every session of the Writing About Ancestor Trouble class I’m teaching, we explicitly invite in kindness and spaciousness around the…
Maud Newton
Feb 28
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January 2023
Doorways and collages and novels and more
Dear friends, I’ve been gearing up to teach my Writing About Ancestor Trouble class, which starts next Tuesday (it’s full! I’ll let you know if I teach…
Maud Newton
Jan 20
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December 2022
Solstice plans, genre confusion, year in reading
Hi y’all, I’m getting excited for the solstice and the gentle turning inward this season brings for me nowadays. Reading and daydreaming more, pouring…
Maud Newton
Dec 20, 2022
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November 2022
Writing about abuse is not abuse
Hi y’all, I’m grateful to you for following along in these times of inundation. I still enjoy jotting down informal thoughts in a place where I’m not…
Maud Newton
Nov 14, 2022
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October 2022
Y'all, bardo, thinning veil, and my class
Hi y’all, I wrote a letter of recommendation for this delightful and inclusive southern pronoun in the most recent New York Times Magazine and suggest…
Maud Newton
Oct 25, 2022
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September 2022
Ancestors, ghost stories, undone
If you’re working on a project about your own ancestors, you might be interested in my latest giveaway—read on or scroll down. Early in the writing of…
Maud Newton
Sep 28, 2022
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Individual reckonings, a drought, a mom
Hi hi, The Guardian U.S. has published my argument for what I’ve called acknowledgment genealogy, the importance of reckoning with our individual…
Maud Newton
Sep 14, 2022
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August 2022
Bobcats, ways of looking, doppelgängers
Dear friends, Anyone who’s followed me since the bloggy aughts might remember how for years I worked on a quasi-autobiographical novel. I wanted to…
Maud Newton
Aug 24, 2022
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July 2022
Untethered to Fact!
The longer I go without sending a newsletter, the more daunting sending a newsletter becomes. Especially in these times, when our democracy is in such…
Maud Newton
Jul 5, 2022
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April 2022
Ancestor Trouble is Out!
Dear friends, Ancestor Trouble is out in the world! If you follow me on social media, you may have heard plenty about it by now, but if not, here are…
Maud Newton
Apr 8, 2022
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March 2022
Events, a Magical Giveaway, Octopus Ancestors, the Finished Book, and More
Hi friends, Ancestor Trouble is coming out at the end of this month, eep! My editor, Andrea, sent along some photos of the finished book, which is still…
Maud Newton
Mar 9, 2022
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Events, a Magical Giveaway, Octopus Ancestors, the Finished Book, and More
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February 2022
Making Peace With Your Ancestors (While Acknowledging Their Harms)
Hi friends, Thank you for reading and sharing this newsletter — I’m so grateful to all the new subscribers following along. And I hope February is…
Maud Newton
Feb 8, 2022
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