Earth Day? More Like Earth Slay!
Welcome back to our newsletter! Here’s everything hot this month:
Most 5 Read Pieces From March
Congratulations to our top 5 most read pieces from last month!
Birth Control Commercials That Never Aired by Lisa Hides
How to Buy a Wood Cutting Board and a Knife in 41 Simple Steps by Viktoria Shulevich
This Is Me, Your Moleskine Diary, And Your Writing Is Not Compatible with My Brand by Gisela Lost
I’m a Reviewer on a Perfume Blog, Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown by Steffany Ritchie
Fun Activities to Do With Frozen Embryos, According to the Alabama Supreme Court by Aarushi Ahuja
May Content Call
We always love seeing your work, and here’s some ideas to get the ol’ brain motor running for next month:
Tips & Tricks
In March, we published “How to Humor: Bringing an Inanimate Object to Life” by Kristen Mulrooney, which has some excellent tips on personification!
And if you’re interested in expanding your satire writing into longer screenplay form? Take a virtual class on Screenwriting for Satirists with our own Heidi Lux through St. Nell’s!
Book Announcement: Where to Nest
We’re excited to share that Kristen Van Nest has released a memoir titled Where to Nest, and you should definitely check it out! Here are the deets:
In her debut travel memoir Where to Nest, Kristen Van Nest weaves an entertaining story for anyone who needs a good laugh, travel ideas, and inspiration for ways to add more joy into their lives.
After college getting her dream job in New York City, Kristen thought she had everything a modern Millennial was supposed to want: a sexy zip code, a boyfriend, and a corporate job.
But instead of feeling content, she soon realized she had no idea who she was and what made her happy. Naturally, she did what any sane person would do: hopped on a plane and spent the rest of her twenties living abroad and traveling the world in search of love, adventure, and new and exciting places to eat bread.
By stripping away the cultural norms and expectations she grew up with in the US, she rebuilt from scratch a new identity, sense of self, and life purpose that ultimately led her to move to Los Angeles to pursue comedy. Through living in Luxembourg on a Fulbright Scholarship and then in China for three years working for a wine importer, Where to Nest takes us across the globe–including nearly being murdered by a lover while skiing in Switzerland, navigating Greece during a banking crisis, and visiting Thailand during a government coup–as a woman struggles to find belonging.
Be sure to grab your copy of Where to Nest right here!
That’s all she (we) wrote — see you next month, Bellas!
