Vanessa Martir

Announcement: Writing Our Lives Partnering with Tin House

Writing Our Lives is partnering with Tin House to publish WOL alum in their Flash Fidelity series online!
 
That means that if you’ve taken a WOL class with Vanessa Mártir, you can submit your 1000 word nonfiction piece for consideration.
 
Submission Period Opens: August 1st, closes September 30th
 
More info on Flash Fidelity: Tin House prefers standalone essays or memoir snapshots vs. excerpts from larger projects. We welcome and encourage work that focuses on issues related to current events, though we may not be able to get to applications in a timely enough manner to meet specific publication needs. Check out Tin House’s Flash Fidelity series for sample essays. 
 
More info in the coming weeks. But to stay in the know, make sure you’ve joined the Writing Our Lives Group Page on FB.

Published by Vanessa Martir

Vanessa Mártir is a big-hearted, 1980s Bushwick-raised bocona learning the heartbeat of silence in the countryside of upstate NY; an oil-and-water combination of imposter syndrome, ambition, procrastination, certainty, insecurity and drive. Vanessa writes personal essays, memoir & novels, is a wanna be poet & playwright, and the creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound Movement. Vanessa’s work has appeared in The NY Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, the VONA/Voices Anthology, Dismantle, and the NYTimes Bestselling anthology Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay, among others. Vanessa has partnered with Tin House and The Rumpus to publish WOL alumni, and with Longreads and NYU's Latinx Project to publish Mother Wound essays. She has also served as guest editor of Aster(ix) and The James Franco Review. When she's not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa hiking in the forest talking to trees and birds. Find out more about her relentless belief in our stories at vanessamartir.com.

3 comments

  1. Awesome Vanessa! Thought I should say, “But of course!”

    You are always doing amazing things. I am blessed to have met you!

    Congratulations.

    Jani Decena-White

    Reply

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