Mandy Len Catron
@LenMandy
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Writer, teacher, pizza eater. Author of How to Fall in Love with Anyone. Creative Writing faculty at The University of British Columbia. she/her
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land
Joined June 2014
HELLO WORLD I MADE A NEWSLETTER!!! Do you like reading/talking/thinking about loneliness and belonging?? Sign right up! https://t.co/F3zokZMlfk
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🚨 New speaker alert for Frontier Summit 2024! 🚨 Limited spots, apply now: https://t.co/SfvZZIj3H7 Ft: 🌟 Niamh Peren – Innovation leader & activist 🌟 @LenMandy – Author & NY Times 🌟 @claudio__rojas – CEO, @NACOCanada 🌟 @AGraylin – Global VP, HTC 🌟 @idakymmer – Social impact
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This workshop for new and established authors on Oct 23 offers writing exercises from five @ubccrwr professors: Whitney French, Frances Koncan, @LenMandy, @mossisnice & @AlixOhlin, with host @_c_n_. https://t.co/cHaUYm6VtB
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.@AdellePurdham's memoir I DON'T DO DISABILITY AND OTHER LIES I'VE TOLD MYSELF is told through her eyes as a mother to a daughter with Down syndrome. Shop Local: https://t.co/Emdq87rIeo Indigo: https://t.co/up976tsmmR Amazon: https://t.co/5icUdVOKwp
@Hollay2 @depalm @LenMandy
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Wading into the discourse about the divorce essay to say: the dislike of confessional writing is boring, predictable, and sexist.
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I am thrilled to announce the inaugural 2024 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction Longlist! My fellow judges (@NicolaRollock, @kamilashamsie, @annesebba and @venetialamanna) and I have chosen 16 wonderful books that will illuminate and inspire you...
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We're hiring an Editor! 14-month fixed-term contract (maternity cover). Downtown Vancouver, BC. 30 hrs/wk with benefits and more. We encourage applicants who self-identify as BIPOC, Women, LGBTQIA2S+, and individuals living with a disability. Apply now! https://t.co/VYDP0sKSdc
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Welcome back from AWP! We are looking for flash nonfiction/fiction under 1k words. Please send to annagaz@thesunmagazine.org!
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Alone, but not lonely! @Longreads has just published my latest reading list about being single: https://t.co/YhfBPQBJEg Featuring reads from @briallenhopper, @rtraister, @katebolick, @AnnaHolmes, @blgtylr, @jessa_crispin, @jessesingal, @belladepaulo and @annehelen.
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Six stories about making a life of one’s own.
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love talking about all my secrets & writing about them at length every year:
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In 2022, I wrote about my first year as a full-time freelancer, but even as I published that post I knew the next year would be different…
Any freelance writer who says they are only making a living on journalism, I have questions! The Post, the Atlantic, The Times - you get $500 for a piece for them, and it's a lot of work. Do you have "family money?" Do you live in a very cheap place? What is your secret?
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Thrilled to be part of this with my very brilliant colleagues @carriejenkins and @MarinaAdshade ♥️🔺
“When I think about the love that shapes my life, I think of my partner & kids, but also of long-distance friendships, daycare workers, neighbours, & any number of intimacies we don’t have names for.” Mandy Catron discusses the benefits of broadening our understanding of love.
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Super excited for this book, you guys! Congrats @rhainacohen
This piece, about a pair of friends of 50 years, is a preview of my book THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, which comes out tomorrow (!) from @StMartinsPress
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This piece, about a pair of friends of 50 years, is a preview of my book THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, which comes out tomorrow (!) from @StMartinsPress
A growing number of older Americans are in need of long-term care. Some are turning to their friends to fill the gap and, in the process, transforming what’s traditionally been a relationship of dependence into one of equality, @rhainacohen reports:
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Green College at UBC welcomes invitations for Writers in Residence for the next five years! Open to all genres, Canadian residents with addresses outside BC lower mainland, room and board plus 22K stipend, due April 10th. Happy to discuss/answer questions. Please share!
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“I thought this was the end of me becoming a mother…But it was only the end of one part, the beginning of another. Before I explain everything that came next, I have to tell you about the octopus.” —@LenMandy
https://t.co/pN2AxqAKdQ
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I find it very telling that the Institute for Family Studies always uses the tag "Infidelity" for pieces about nonmonogamy. Not the most objective or thoughtful starting point for analysis.
Of note, on Polyamory and Consensual Non-Monogamy. @KayHymowitz raises important points and thorny questions, esp about trickle down effects. Like others, I get asked about this phenomenon a lot. The buzz is real. https://t.co/PrV0OqDdgJ
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Thanks to @ninthletter for publishing this essay about the scariest and luckiest experience of my life. And to @craigsperez for selecting it for the Regeneration Literary Contest. I'm very happy to see it out in the world: https://t.co/XVR0cyg8a9
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Looking to submit to our HYBRIDS issue? Check out this writing prompt from our Prose Editor, Natasha Gauthier, for some inspiration! ✨ https://t.co/dvpKworCj1
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