I established Sheila Bender’s Writing It Real Substack as a community resource to facilitate those who write from personal experience in poetry, memoir, fiction, and nonfiction; join me for instructional articles on writing craft and the writing life.
Founder of WritingItReal.com, poet, essayist, memoirist and writing instruction author, I facilitate others writing from personal experience with articles and writing to help them grow rather than tear their writing apart via traditional critiquing.
Roots & Branches: Personal essays and memoirs themes of identity, adoption. Seasons: Vignettes, nostalgia, image-poems. Behind the Hedge: Novella excerpts, craft essays, characters. The Garden & The Gate for a deeper dive.