Jeannine Ouellette+

A Complicated Relationship With the Word Sacred

Making From the Sacred | The Ritual | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Seventy-One

We Are Made of Each Other

Making From Relationship | What Relationship Gave Us | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Seventy

Place as the Gauze Through Which We See Everything

Making From Relationship | The Place | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty-Nine

Let the Second List Surprise You

Making From Relationship | The Student | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty-Eight

They Learned to Look at Us the Way We Look at Each Other

Making From Relationship | The Animal | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty-Seven

Gathered and Given Back

Making From Relationship | The Formative One | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty-Six

All Real Living is Meeting

Making From Relationship | The Unexpected One | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty-Five

Jealousy's Surprisingly Helpful Cousin

Making From Relationship | The Healthy Rival | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty-Four

Why People Settle Near Volcanoes

Making From Relationship | The Difficult One | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty-Three

Soaked in Honey, Pinned Against Time

Making From Relationship | The Brief Encounter | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty-Two

The Witness to Your Becoming

Making From Relationship | The Long Relationship | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty-One

Tell Yourself You Tasted as Many as You Could

Making With Darkness | What Darkness Made Possible | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Sixty

Do You Believe in Writer's Block?

Making With Darkness | The Fallow | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty-Nine

The known is finite, the unknown infinite ~Thomas Huxley

Making With Darkness | The Unknown | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty-Eight

100 Days of Making & Writing Celebration on Zoom

Find the Zoom Link Here!

The Wretchedness Humbles Us and Softens Us

Making With Darkness | The Fear | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty-Seven

Why is Everything is so Goddamned Scary?

Making With Darkness | The Fear | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty-Six

Fully Formed But Yet To Arrive

Making With Darkness | The Threshold | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty-Five

I Want to Be With Those Who Know Secret Things or Else Alone

Making With Darkness | The Secret| A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty-Four

Writing is Nothing More Than A Guided Dream

Making With Darkness | The Dream | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty-Three

Everything is Dying, Mom

Making With Darkness | The Celebration | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty-Two

You Darkness, That I Come From

Making With Darkness | The Shadow | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty-One

The Body as "Luminous Manifestation of the Soul"

Making With The Body | What the Body Taught | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Fifty

The Body is a Complicated Document

Making With The Body | The Pleasure| A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty-Nine

Pleasure is Not the Reward; It's the Work

Making With The Body | The Pleasure| A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty-Seven

The Hungry Artist is the Awake Artist

Making With The Body | The Hunger | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty-Seven

The Wound as Material

Making With The Body | The Wound | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty-Six

The Living Shouldering the Dead

Making With The Body | The Decay | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty-Five

A Fraction of a Second, The Whole of Existence

Making With The Body | The Small Thing | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty-Four

If it Were Voices Instead of Colors

Making With The Body | The Seasons | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty-Three

The Breath is the Captain

Making With The Body | The Breath | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty-Two

Twenty-Seven Bones and a Warm Stone

Making With The Body | The Hands | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty-One

The Space Between Intention and Control

Making With Permission | The OppositeThing | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Forty

Everything You Usually Do, Don't Do

Making With Permission | The OppositeThing | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty-Nine

Walk Away While It's Still Breathing

Making With Permission | The Unfinished Thing | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty-Eight

The Phoenix, or, The Art of the On-Purpose Accident

Making With Permission |The Phoenix | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty-Seven

Not Yet, Not Quite, Not Good Enough

Making With Permission |The Inner Critic | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty-Six

So Much of What We Were Taught as Young People About Making Art Was Wrong

Making With Permission | The Copy | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty-Five

The Space Between Us (and the Third Thing)

Making With Permission | The Collaboration | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty-Four

Astonishment Requires Not Knowing

Making With Permission | The Beginner| A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty-Three

The Paradox of Badness

Making With Permission | The Bad Thing | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty-Two

Smashing the Inner Critic & Learning to Play

Making With Permission | The Mess | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty-One

Bright as a Small Sun

Making for Someone Else | The Future Gift | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Thirty

Writing is an act of faith, not a grammar trick ~E.B. White

Making for Someone Else | The Future Gift | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Twenty-Nine

What We Mean When We Say Grace

Making for Someone Else | The Blessing | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Twenty-Eight

Fragile Skins Barely Touching

Making for Someone Else | The Comfort | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Twenty-Seven

The Gift of Being Seen

Making for Someone Else | | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Twenty-Six

In the Space Between Two People

Making for Someone Else | The Teaching | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Twenty-Five

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

Making for Someone Else | The Repair | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Twenty-Four

More than the Light Records

Making for Someone Else | The Portrait | A 100 Day Creative Practice | Day Twenty-Three

WANTED: Week Three | The Language of Trembling & Objects of Displaced Desire

Six Weeks of Writing Desire as a Force on the Page and in Life; come write with us!

What the Holiday Was Never For

Ultimately, Mother’s Day is complex the way a fist is complex. It contains so much.

Writer Ethics & Literary Citizenship: An FAQ

Never admire quietly. We humans are so fragile and it’s important to give people their flowers while they're still here. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | From the Archive

🧵 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!

WANTED: Week Two | Sex Without Love & The Unruly Body

A Six-Week Intensive on Desire as a Force in Writing and in Life; come write with us!

Ghosts of Fourth Street

Estrangement & disinheritance: Memoirist Laurie Hertzel faced the most extreme reaction memoirists fear. Here, she speaks of these issues & much more, including ethics and the ways we define "truth"

WANTED: Week One | The Grammar of Longing

A Six-Week Intensive on Desire as a Force in Writing and in Life

Celebrate Good Times, Come On!

More community wins | Six-week WANTED intensive starts tomorrow | Internship opportunity

The Beautiful Terror of Publication

There is always another threshold, another moment of gathering ourselves before the leap.

The Last Day

Sometimes, someone else's struggle becomes your permission to struggle, and someone’s breakthrough becomes the light by which you find your own.

🧵 “Falling in love” — real, or the best story we tell ourselves?

We’re writers, right?

Writing = Living: Here's Why

Ten Ways Creative Writing Intersects With Building A Better, Richer, More Meaningful Life

In Light of Spring

Every new thing is the ending of what came just before it.

Even When It Hurts

Plus, my podcast with Writing Your Resilience with Lisa Cooper Ellison

What It Really Means to "Write in the Dark" | Begin here...

Water Access Only

My father died, and I did not say good-bye

She Wanted More

After Justin Torres

🧵 I Did an Annual Inventory, How About You?

Let's say we use this thread to take stock: what’s on the shelf of your life now that wasn’t there a year ago — and what’s been discontinued?”

The Importance of "Teeth" in the Art of Revision

Essay in 12 Steps | TWELVE | "There is something wonderful in watching a figure emerge...that seems to have a plan, which seems to be: to lead you to your own higher ground." ~George Saunders

Notes to Myself on the Brink of 58

Plus a love letter and an invitation