PUBLISHED PORTFOLIO
Look at this impressive collection of published works by adoptee-writers in our Adoptee Voices community! We share in order to celebrate our courageous writers, and in hopes that this list inspires many other adoptees to share their stories. Please support these authors’ important work by reading, reviewing, commenting, and sharing.
PARTICIPANTS' PUBLISHED WORKS—WRITTEN IN OUR WRITING GROUPS!
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Elemental"
The Ana
"Competing with Claire Danes"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Passage"
HuffPost Personal
"I Spent Years Fighting For Control..."
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Coming to Our Senses"
Women on Writing Essay Contest
"The Flame"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Root"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Kaleidoscope"
Severance Magazine
"Abandoned at the Playground"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Relativ-ity"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Alternatively"
Dream Noir
"Holding Me, Holding You"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Labyrinthine"
Adoptees On Podcast Episode
Capsule Stories Autumn 2022
"Mother Tree"
Hippocampus Magazine
"Home is a Feeling"
We Are the West
"The Poet"
Visible Magazine
"Brown Eyes"
The Washington Post
"Adoption is not a fairy tale answer to abortion"
Adoption Knowledge Affiliates Blog
"Maraschino Cherries at Church"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Body"
Visible Magazine
"These Eyes"
Englewood Review of Books
Review of Adopting for God
Witness Magazine
"Where Are You From?"
Iowa Public Radio's Talk of Iowa
"Adoptees share their experiences through writing"
Adoptee Literary Festival
"Sizzle Reel"
The Universal Asian
"My face does not match me – A six -word memoir"
Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine
"Erased"
The Universal Asian
"The Price of a DNA Test"
Visible Magazine
"Dear Scared White Man"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"On Paper"
Adoptee Reclaimed Poetry Contest
"The Archer"
The Universal Asian
"An #importedAsians POV: Alice Stephens"
Englewood Review of Books
Review of The Nature of Small Birds
Adoption Knowledge Affiliates Connection
"Santa Claus is Dead"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Solstice"
The Seattle Times
"Adoption is not a simple solution to an unwanted pregnancy"
The Universal Asian
"abundant nothingness"
Invisible Magazine
"Adoptee Games"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Mirror"
The Universal Asian
"Adoptee Voices Writing Group Panel"
Huff Post
"For Most of My Life, I Didn't Feel Like A 'Real Asian.' Everything Changed This Year."
Dear Adoption
"Dear Adoption, Are You Proud of Me?"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"Spotlights"
Severance Magazine
"Animal Tale: How animals help sooth an adoptee's pain."
First Unitarian Church of Providence
"Love, Loss, Identity and My Never Ending Search For Truth"
Adoptee Voices e-Zine
"In Between Places"
ADOPTEE VOICES FACILITATORS
Adoption Unfiltered
(Co-Authored with Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard and Lori Holden)
Searching for Mom: A Memoir
The Truth So Far: A detective's journey to reunite with her birth family
Famous Adopted People
The Couch Blog
Washington Independent Review of Books
"Alice in Wordland"
Once Upon a Time ... In Adopteeland
Juneteenth Is
The Blue Pickup
AUTHOR WEBSITES, WRITING-RELATED BLOGS, & REGULAR COLUMNS
- Adoptee Literary Festival
- Alice in Wordland, Washington Independent Review of Books
- Lucia Blackwell
- Sara Easterly
- Flourish, the Experience, Evan Brook, Lora K. Joy, Ann Mikeska, Coleen Nevin, Catie Samantha Peck, Susie Stricker
- Mary Ellen Gambutti
- Lorah Gerald
- Jennifer Dyan Ghoston
- Susan Devan Harness
- Haiku Kwon, An #importedasians POV, The Universal Asian
- Cynthia Landesberg, Adoption Squared
- Heather Lewis, Musings of a Middle-Aged Matriarch, The Universal Asian
- Lisa Ann, Wandering Tree
- Kate Murphy, LCSW, The Couch
- Zhen E Rammelsberg, Black Box: An Adoption Story Choreopoem
- Alice Stephens
- Sara Streeter
- Julian Washio-Collette, Peregrine Adoptee
- Woo-Ae Yi
ADOPTEE VOICES WRITERS WHO'VE SHARED STORIES ON JENNIFER'S PODCAST
- Adam Anthony
- Akara Skye
- Alice Stephens
- Anita Garber
- Barbara Robertson
- Brad Ewell
- Carmen Hinckley
- Catie Samantha Peck
- Cynthia
- Danielle Orr
- Daryn Watson
- Debra Michelle Jones
- David DeMarco
- Emma Stevens
- Hannah Andrews
- Heather Schultz Gittens
- Janet Nordine
- Jennifer (interviewed by Tina)
- Julian Washio-Collette
- Kate Murphy
- Lisa Ann
- Lora K. Joy
- Lorah Gerald
- Marci Purcell
- Mary Ellen Gambutti
- Maya Holmes
- Melissa Corkum
- Nancy McCaughey
- Nomi
- Ridghaus
- Sara Easterly
- Sandi Smith
- Dr. Syb Brown
- Sydney Parkhurst
- Tina
- Zhen E
ADOPTEE VOICES WRITERS WHOSE WRITING FROM ONE OF OUR COHORTS HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN GUEST BLOG POSTS
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