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pARTake is a newsletter & community for curious creatives. Every month I share Monthly Vibes, a curated list of books, recipes, and art updates. In between, I write Midweek Missives, a mash-up of poetry, essays, and musings. Typos are inevitable!
I was born in Flint, Michigan and raised on a dirt street by loving parents, two sisters and a lot of Green Giant in a can.
Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.
Curating fee-free (AND paying) calls and competitionsโplus other resourcesโfor writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Casey Mulligan Walsh writes about life at the intersection of grief and joy and embracing the in-between. Her memoir, The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, is forthcoming from Motina Books in February 2025.