It Takes A Village
by Jillian Barnetin 📚 Literature
It Takes A Village
About the Substack
A monthly conversation about writing craft, books, publishing, and community-building, accompanied by wacky stories of fledgling farming.
Free Subscription Benefits
- Public posts and once-monthly newsletters
Paid Subcription Benefits
- Participation in comments and threads
- Access to the full archive
- My 8-page list of small press and university publishers with links
Paid Subscription Plans
- $50 a year
- $5 a month
About Jillian Barnet
Best-American essayist, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, teacher of writing. NYT, HuffPost, New Letters, Brevity, JAMA, Literary Mama, .... I write about the craft, family in its many iterations, and farm life. Excellent duck-wrangler.
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