Hi friends,

This is the final issue of 2022, and the end of the second year of Send My Love to Anyone! I can hardly believe it!

For Issue 22, Lynne Tillman recounts her story of trying unsuccessfully to secure the film rights to Jane Bowles’ 1943 novel Two Serious Ladies and we get to read an excerpt from her unproduced sceenplay too), and Elyse Friedman shares an excerpt of her new novel The Opportunist, which has been getting rave reviews!

Thanks so much to all the 2022 Send My Love to Anyone contributors: Tara McGuire, Lisa Robertson, Rebecca Fisseha, Susan Mockler, Sina Queyras, Francine Cunningham, Samantha Jones, Catherine Graham, Laurie D. Graham, Kim Fu, Naben Ruthnum, and Kirby who joined Send My Love to Anyone as a regular columnist this year.

ICYMI check out The First Time posts from 2022: this amazing kind of energy moment, hearts ears eyes, and Are all booksellers dreamers?)

This year for Send My Love to Anyone, I wrote about my ADHD Diagnosis, On Not Sharing Ideas Before They’re Hatched, The Book I Wouldn’t Read (as a child), and my Adventures in Puzzling.

For Catapult Magazine, I wrote a deeply personal essay about not wanting children. Thanks to Tajja Isen for her wonderful edits! This is a topic I’ve been afraid to write about for years, but the overturning of Roe vs. Wade made me feel like it was the right time to share. I’ve been overwhelmed by support from childfree people and parents alike. I encourage every writer to write that thing that scares them the most.

In 2022, I completed (save for some final edits) my collection of stories Anecdotes with the help of writer, editor, and designer Malcolm Sutton! I was thrilled when Malcolm agreed to edit this book, and frankly could not have finished it without him! I’m absolutely dying to share the cover he designed which will be revealed soon! Anecdotes is forthcoming from Book*hug in the fall of 2023.

One of the reasons I started Send My Love to Anyone was to get out of a serious writing block, and I’m happy to say that it worked, but also that I connected with a wonderful community in the process!

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I tried Hive, but the app didn’t work for me. Despite all appearances—I really only have so much room in my social media heart.

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KIRBY @itsakirby

"Meanwhile, in another part of the forest..." KIRBY BEHOLD Six intimate workshop performances in a downtown living room setting to benefit @knifeforkbook TICKETS/INFO knifeforkbook.shop/store/p166/KIR… On Sale Now KIRBY POETRY IS QUEER @PalimpsestPress palimpsestpress.ca/books/poetry-i…

Jeff Dupuis reviews Fractured by Susan Mockler in Issue 14 of The Quarantine Review

Sydney Hegele on Morning Pages elitism

Marsh Mail

Hell is real and it's a handwriting lesson

If you know what Morning Pages are, you’ve likely been subjected a “Morning Pages Elitism” that is strangely disconnected from Julia Cameron’s original concept. Writer’s have been utilizing Cameron’s writer’s-block-beating practice from The Artist’s Way…

2 months ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Sydney Hegele

What is your favourite film from 1973. I’m collecting a list of films to watch over the holidays.

Kathryn Mockler @themockler

What is your favourite film from 1973 if you have one?

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart, a memoir by Jen Sookfong Lee coming in January 2023.

Unsettling Poetry: Land-Based Strategies for Generating Poems with Liz Howard - January 14, 2023 - The FOLD

Scientists finally know why we catch colds and flu in winter.

Loblaws asks customers to tackle food insecurity and it did not go well, Blog TO

Alicia Elliot on If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English, CBC

blake butler @blakebutler

Everything you write has taken your entire life to write

A conversation mediated by art with Canisia Lubrin and Dionne Brand, The Yale Review

Breaking our cultural silence around menopause by Sue Carter in Catapult Magazine

On writing the zero draft:

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD

Zero draft is a critical part of the academic writing process. But a lot of folks ignore it and run into all sorts of problems including the writer's block. Here's what a zero draft is and why you should write one:

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Chantal Akerman tops the Sights and Sounds Poll

Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag

For the first time in 70 years the #SightAndSoundPoll has been topped by a film directed by a woman – and one that takes a consciously, radically feminist approach to cinema. Things will never be the same, writes Laura Mulvey

bfi.org.ukThe greatest film of all time: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 BruxellesFor the first time in 70 years the Sight and Sound poll has been topped by a film directed by a woman – and one that takes a consciously, radically feminist approach to cinema. Things will never be the same.

Digital habits and the environment, The Walrus

Tanis MacDonald tells us about her book of essays Straggle

Nikki Reimer’s essay “Grief Turns Us All Into Vultures”

Nikki “In THIS pandemic?!” Reimer @NikkiReimer

Me, my baby brother, and the ways we continue to know each other even after death

OrderoftheGoodDeath @OrderGoodDeath

NEW ARTICLE Grappling with grief, neurodivergence, and what might have been. Read ‘Grief Turns Us All Into Vultures’: https:/www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/grief-turns-us-all-into-vultures/ https://t.co/xy14CxdxU0

Drawing Together with Lynda Barry!

Stuart Ross will be editing Guernica Editions experimental fiction imprint 1366 Books! Exciting!

Guernica Editions @guernica_ed

TORONTO—Guernica Editions is pleased to add an exciting new imprint to its lineup: 1366 Books will be edited by Cobourg-based writer and editor Stuart Ross and will explore the boundaries of fiction, the short story, and the novel. . . Find the full press release on our Facebook!

On Literary Success by Kathy Fish

The Art of Flash Fiction

On Literary "Success"

Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash Hi friends, At this time of year “success” is on our minds as we look back on the year and judge ourselves against our own expectations and in relation to our peers. It’s also list season and nomination season. I’ve been thinking a lot about what success means for writers and artists…

a month ago · 45 likes · 37 comments · Kathy Fish

The demise of Bookforum, The New Yorker

Issue #22 of Send My Love to Anyone

December 2022 Gatherings

Lynne Tillman on Two Serious Ladies

Excerpt from The Opportunist by Elyse Friedman

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