Jenny Bartoy

No Contact: Writers on Estrangement Writers on Estrangement

Here’s the link. Please share this with someone you know who is estranged. ❤️

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Me: I have a book coming out on April 28! It’s called NO CONTACT: WRITERS ON ESTRANGEMENT and features 32 incredible writers sharing powerful, vulnerable accounts of family estrangement.

You: ** pre-orders immediately **

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Me: Knock knock.
You: Who’s there?
Me: I have a b—
You:
Me: 😊
You: 🙄 I have a b— who?

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Who Can Imagine Why Anyone Would Want To Cut This Lovely Mom Out Of Her Life? | Defector Laura Wellington is estranged from one of her adult daughters. The Connecticut 59-year-old is somewhat famous for this, in fact, or anyway famous for her response to it. Across Tiktok and Instagram, u...

It's been my personal anecdotal experience that people who have gone no contact with a parent usually have done so for good reason, and that re-establishing contact on the parent's terms would do both parties more harm than good.

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No Contact

I hope you will consider pre-ordering No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy.

@jennybartoy.bsky.social's forthcoming anthology, published by @catapultbooks.bsky.social, is a powerful and compassionate collection.

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No Contact: Writers on Estrangement Writers on Estrangement

An awesome anthology relevant to exactly this is dropping this Spring, editor @jennybartoy.bsky.social

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Distance from Trauma by Writing the Memoir Self as a Character in a Novel: A Conversation with Karen Palmer - The Rumpus “The thing about writing a memoir is, if you write yourself into a corner, you can only get out by telling the truth. Making something up to bridge a problem area is not available to you. With a novel...

(Oh look, here's my giant face yet again.) I spoke with @jennybartoy.bsky.social for @therumpus.net about SHE'S UNDER HERE. Just what you wanted to read on Xmas Eve, right?

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The cited information but not the quote written in white at the bottom of Palmer's author photo. In the bottom lefthand corner is the book cover for She's Under Here with the Rumpus logo overtop.

“It was all bottled up inside for such a long time, and the desire to get it down on paper was overwhelming.”

@jennybartoy.bsky.social interviews @karenpalmer.bsky.social about She's Under Here (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social).

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Delighted that my personal essay was selected as a finalist in the nonfiction category of the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards competition!

This essay is included in No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, edited by @jennybartoy.bsky.social, forthcoming from @catapultbooks.bsky.social.

No Contact

Estrangement is the subject of my forthcoming anthology, NO CONTACT (Catapult, 2026). The current discourse is exactly why this book and its stories are needed. We must consider family estrangement with more nuance and compassion.

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Estrangement is not a trend. Estrangement has always existed, along with the abuse and toxic families that necessitate it. But we're *talking* about it now — that's the change! Thanks to the internet and the destigmatization of therapy, we now find support in #estrangement. This has/will save lives.

📵 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 📵 We are so excited to share the cover of NO CONTACT: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy! Cover design by the fabulous Nicole Caputo ⭐

NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now:
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Sisterly Strife in Scarred Cuba: An Interview with Ivonne Lamazares - Chicago Review of Books A conversation with Ivonne Lamazares on her new novel, "The Tilting House"

"I’m endlessly curious about how people reconstruct and anchor their lives after a devastating and radical change."

@jennybartoy.bsky.social's interview with Ivonne Lamazares on her new book “The Tilting House” (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
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i firmly believe one of the main messages we should be telling our students about this whole thing is that generative ‘AI’ by definition will *never* have an original idea,
and if you use it, neither will *you*

The reason there's no working class representation in publishing is because publishing and writing currently pay so badly only people who are already financially stable can afford to do it.
The problem is always, always money.

Taking a break from mental health to focus on social media. Just really looking to be as unstable as possible with everything going on right now, thx for understanding.

Thank you so much, David. I will look up Drawing Blood!

Literacy is activism.
Reading is a political act.
Books are tools for liberation.

Are you estranged from family? Do you have a story to tell about it?

For the anthology Broken Free (Catapult, April 2026), I am seeking personal essays and flash nonfiction about a few specific topics.

Please visit bit.ly/estrangedanthology for submission guidelines and more info. Deadline 3/9.

Thank you! Just followed.

Thank you, Alexis! I look forward to reading your submission.

Are you estranged from family? Do you have a story to tell about it?

For the anthology Broken Free (Catapult, April 2026), I am seeking personal essays and flash nonfiction about a few specific topics.

Please visit bit.ly/estrangedanthology for submission guidelines and more info. Deadline 3/9.

I adored this book, and my conversation with the author. Climate dystopia, beyond relevant for our times, written with deep humanity and gorgeous prose — highly recommend.

@eirencaffall.bsky.social @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social

I am still looking for a few specific angles actually. I’m curious about your poems. I’ll reach out via your website.

After I Cut Off Contact From My Mother, I Was Shocked By The Brutal Move My Sisters Made “I do not forgive my sisters, but I do not blame them, either. It took me 50 years to see that my mother was manipulating us all.”

Fantastic piece about estrangement.

“When one person steps away, it is easy to cast them as the breaker of the family, when in fact the family was broken already.”

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Jacquie Pham On Historical Fiction, Colonialism, and “the Many Imbalances that Wealth, Gender, and Power Wield.” A historical mystery set in 1920s French-colonial Vietnam, Those Opulent Days is the debut of Vietnamese-Australian author Jacquie Pham. The novel opens with a death, and the prophecy that foretold…

A historical mystery set in 1920s French-colonial Vietnam, THOSE OPULENT DAYS is the elegant debut of Vietnamese-Australian author Jacquie Pham. My interview with Pham for @crimereads.bsky.social was my last publication of 2024. You can read this deep and compelling conversation at the link below.

Thank you, Cass! ❤️

I can’t wait to bring BROKEN FREE to readers, both the estranged who long to feel represented, and those who are curious to better understand the experience. In sharing these voices, my hope is that we‘ll become better equipped to expect & develop healthy family relationships. 6/

Estrangement might break us, but it can also set us free. In this collection, writers will dig deep into the many nuances and facets of the experience, rebutting the common narrative that “blood is thicker than water” or that one can’t be whole without their family of origin. 5/