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B.K. Jackson

@bkjackson.bsky.social
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Writer/Editor/Coach—editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship; Founder, Severancemag.com

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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In the Washington, DC area next weekend? Please come & join the conversation about family secrets, adoptee and NPE storytelling, DNA surprises, identity, and more. @laurajenx.bsky.social @christinewolf.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social RSVP here: withfriends.co/.../relative....
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Denver-area folks: Award-winning memoirists & adoptee advocates @susanharness.bsky.social and @saraeasterlyauthor.bsky.social will be in conversation to discuss Susan’s essay in the anthology Relative Strangers & her experience as a transracial adoptee. Tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/susan-deva...
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Learn more and reserve your seat here: villagewell.com/events/60730... @lisabrenner212.bsky.social
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thrilled about this column in The Chicago Tribune!
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Join anthology contributors in Winnetka 8/30 for a conversation about family secrets and DNA surprises, moderated by Heidi Stevens. @christinewolf.bsky.social @micheledhaber.bsky.social @heidikstevens.bsky.social
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Thrilled that @electricliterature.com published my roundup of books about discovering unknown close relatives. electricliterature.com/7-memoirs-ab...
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7 Memoirs About Discovering Close Relatives Late in Life - Electric Literature
These books explore what happens when parents, siblings, and histories emerge from family secrets long buried
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Miami friends: Join us at Books & Books in Coral Gable where Dawn Davies and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello will read and discuss their essays on August 13 at 7 pm. RSVP at the link below. www.eventbrite.com/e/relative-s...
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Relative Strangers | Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello & Dawn Davies
Join authors Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and Dawn Davies for the release of their work featured in a new anthology, RELATIVE STRANGERS.
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Join us in NYC. Info and tickets here www.eventbrite.com/e/bk-jackson...
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Loved talking with @micheledhaber.bsky.social about dna surprises and our new anthology, Relative Strangers whosmydaddy.substack.com/p/why-it-mat...
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Why it matters with B.K. Jackson
The editor of the anthology, Relative Strangers talks about the book and the momentous experience of discovering unknown close relatives
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thanks Amy Roost and @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for this deeply thoughtful review of Relative Strangers. www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/revi...
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REVIEW: Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity and the Meaning of Kinship, Edited by B.K. Jackson | Hippocampus Magazine
Amy Roost reviews the anthology, Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity and the Meaning of Kinship, Edited by B.K. Jackson.
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
NYC friends, join me and @briangresko.bsky.social, @christinewolf.bsky.social, @laurajenx, Kama Einhorn and Lisa Grunberger as we talk about our new anthology, Relative Strangers, about family secrets and discovering unknown family www.eventbrite.com/e/bk-jackson...
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B.K. Jackson presents Relative Strangers: An Anthology, with guest readers
Readings start at 7:00pm, with Kama Einhorn, Brian Gresko, Lisa Grunberger, Laura Jenkins, Christine Wolf, & B.K. (Kate) Jackson!
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’m excited to share that the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship will be published on June 23 by ELJ Editions. Learn more, preorder, and see the event schedule here: www.bkjacksonwriter.com/book
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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B.K. Jackson on Instagram: "I'm excited to share the cover of Relative Strangers and announce a pub date: June 23! Preorder from ELJ Editions. Link in bio. Essays by Aimee Seiff Christian, Alesia Weis...
6 likes, 0 comments - b.k.jackson on April 28, 2026: "I'm excited to share the cover of Relative Strangers and announce a pub date: June 23! Preorder from ELJ Editions. Link in bio. Essays by Aimee Se...
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New from @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social A wonderful middle grade novel about a challenging mother-daughter bond, body image, love and belonging.
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Blair Glaser @blairglaser.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What review!! 🙏🙏🙏
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
A memoir of spiritual longing and self-discovery by @blairglaser.bsky.social
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REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser | Hippocampus Magazine
In the Incredible Longing: Finding Myself in a Near-Cult Experience, Blair Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashr...
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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The Four Major Losses of the Adoptee - Severance Magazine
Lisa "LC" Coppola, LCPC, LMHC, founder, Coppola Counseling & Consultaiton, LLC discusses the most common losses experienced by adoptees.
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
By the always deeply thoughtful @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social
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What Are Your Rooms of Experience?
Thoughts on grief and the illusion of control. Also: writing, litmag, and cardiac health news. Welcome in!
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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In Praise of Audacity
A Q&A With Entrepreneur and Podcaster Alice Draper
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Important piece by @laurajenx.bsky.social about the things seldom said about pain. spillitall.substack.com/p/the-marath...
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The Marathon No One Sees
The loneliness of chronic pain
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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share! www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41
The cover of Whale Road Review's Issue 41, winter 2025, which features an image of Tower 10 with ocean waves in the background at Mission Beach in San Diego.
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Congratulations on your 10th anniversary @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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The Master Key to My Life
A Q & A with memoirist and journalist Carla Sosenko
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I know we shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but really, who doesn't? So I can't wait to read this memoir by @jacgorelick
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Two weeks left to send your essay! For Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship, an anthology about encountering unknown close family, submit your essays (2000 word max) by Nov 16, 2025. Here's the link: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit @dianegotauthor.bsky.social
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ELJ Editions Submission Manager
WELCOME TO ELJ EDITIONS, LTD.Emerge Literary Journal is OPEN to submissions. We are open to submissions in the following windows:1/1-2/287/1-8/30Manuscript submissions are currently CLOSED.A kind remi...
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Happy pub day Heather! Congrats on the launch of this excellent memoir about stepping into your own light. @heathersweeney.bsky.social
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I loved chatting with @lisabrenner212.bsky.social about her new film One Big Happy Family, about her DNA surprise and her NPE journey. severancemag.com/one-big-happ...
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One Big Happy Family - Severance Magazine
Actor, producer, screenwriter Lisa Brenner brings her DNA surprise experience and NPE journey to the big screen.
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Creatively ADHD @creativelyadhd.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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No One Likes a Critic
Nine tips on how to give feedback and a few thoughts on how to receive it
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Great article by @laurajenx about a not great article spillitall.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
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The Art of Missing the Point
A response to The New Yorker article on DNA surprises
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
For Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship (@elj editions), an anthology about encountering unknown close family, submit your essays (2000 word max) by Nov 16, 2025. Questions? DM me. Here's the link: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit @dianegotauthor.bsky.social
eljpublications.submittable.com
ELJ Editions Submission Manager
WELCOME TO ELJ EDITIONS, LTD.Emerge Literary Journal is OPEN to submissions. We are open to submissions in the following windows:1/1-2/287/1-8/30Manuscript submissions are currently CLOSED.A kind remi...
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Creatively ADHD @creativelyadhd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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ADHD Paralysis
When Indecision Keeps you From Filling the Blank Page
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Looking forward to this!
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Join @louisebrowne.bsky.social and @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social and their stellar lineup of guests in DC in September.
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Live Podcast Weekend with Adoption: The Making of Me - Severance Magazine
Louise Browne and Sarah Reinhardt are bringing their popular podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me, to life in Washington, D.C. this September
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Suddenly, Jamaica | Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Jamaica Kincaid’s commanding, irreverent work immerses her readers in a black world without explaining or defining its blackness. This seems to be a major departure in the history of African American ...
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Creatively ADHD @creativelyadhd.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Riding the Rollercoaster
A Q & A with Paulette Perhach
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
An excerpt from Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery and the Currents that Carry You Home, by Kimberly Warner severancemag.com/cracks-in-th...
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Cracks in the Foundation - Severance Magazine
Excerpt from Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home, by Kimberly Warner
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Beautiful review by @eileenvcollins.bsky.social of The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared by @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/06/29/t...
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The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared by Casey Mulligan Walsh - The Sunlight Press
Walsh looks at grief head on, unflinching, even welcoming it as tangible proof of the love she shares with her dead.
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
As a girl who longed to know about her absent mother, who learned that her beloved dad wasn't her father, and that her father was a handsome Italian man, how could I not love Mariska Hargitay's documentary? severancemag.com/my-mom-jayne/
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My Mom Jayne - Severance Magazine
A review of Mariska Hargitay's remarkable documentary film, My Mom Jayne—a story of grief, loss, tragic secrets, and love
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A master class in essay writing in five paragraphs from @dianegotauthor.bsky.social Mondegreen url:https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/mondegreen/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=beautiful-things-from-river-teeth-5
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Creatively ADHD @creativelyadhd.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Space Out to Create
For Writers with ADHD, Learning to Tolerate Boredom Can Boost Creativity
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Creatively ADHD @creativelyadhd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
At the top of my list this week is Amie McNee, who makes an impassioned plea for making art no matter what. @inspiredtowrite.bsky.social creativelyadhd.substack.com/publish/post...
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Sign in to Creatively ADHD
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The latest article on Severance, by @dr-liz-debetta.bsky.social
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In Search of Origin - Severance Magazine
Being able to tell truthful stories about who we are and where we came from, through the lens of security rather than doubt, adoptees can begin to empower themselves and feel less alone.
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Do you struggle as a writer with ADHD? You’re not alone. creativelyadhd.substack.com/p/writing-wi...
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Writing with ADHD
When the words don't fall out: an inexhaustive list of ADHD traits that can make writing harder than it needs to be
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Creatively ADHD @creativelyadhd.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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The Weekly(ish) Five
Five things for creatives with ADHD...and those without
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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The Messy House of Memoir
Acclaimed author Jill Bialosky examines the messy house of memoir, including how important the structure is to the story memoirists tell.
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Congratulations, Heather!
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Creatively ADHD @creativelyadhd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The latest Weekly Five: creativelyadhd.substack.com/p/the-weekly...
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The Weekly Five
Five things for creatives with ADHD...and those without
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Creatively ADHD @creativelyadhd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
More commentary on the "unsettling" NYTimes article on ADHD www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-new...
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The New York Times Moves the Goalposts on ADHD
This critical analysis of recent ADHD coverage challenges misconceptions about treatment, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive approach to mental health.
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B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Ways of Remembering: A Father and Daughter Navigate Loss Together
My father has untreated ADHD. Two years ago, at thirty-nine, I verified a longtime suspicion and was diagnosed with the same disorder. When we talk on the phone we talk at each other rather than to…
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Creatively ADHD @creativelyadhd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Big thanks to author Nina Lichtenstein for adding her voice to the conversation about ADHD and the creative process in Creatively ADHD's first Q & A. creativelyadhd.substack.com/p/her-body-a...
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Her Body As a Wonderland
A Q & A with Nina B. Lichtenstein, author of Body: My Life in Parts
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