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Lavinia Spalding

@laviniaspalding

Series editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing, author of Writing Away, co-author of Hell's Backbone cookbooks & Frommer’s New Orleans. Words in NYT, Tin House, Longreads, TEDx, AFAR, etc. Co-host of There She Goes podcast, co-founder of Studio Unfurl.

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Latest posts by Lavinia Spalding @laviniaspalding

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Some tasty road trip ideas and tips on travel journaling from expert @laviniaspalding.bsky.social in this month’s Saturday Evening Post #Travel #RoadTrips

30.06.2025 08:09 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What We Can Learn from Poets and Place Plus some musings, a new Modern Love class, and a writing prompt

National Poetry Month might be over, but we can pretend it isn't, right? I wrote my first official thing for Substack. I hope you'll read it....

02.05.2025 20:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join me this Monday from 9-11:30 am PT as I demystify writing the Modern Love essay! I'll share everything I've learned from two Modern Love rejections and two acceptances, conversations with the editors & writers, and a ton of research! Learn more and register here! 27powers.org/lavinia-spal...

21.03.2025 23:13 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Our Modern Love Submission Workshop w @laviniaspalding.bsky.social is almost full, so this is the time to snap up your spot! Get your Modern Love draft workshopped, revised, and polished.

Register here: www.offassignment.com/modern-love-...

18.03.2025 21:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Let’s get your Modern Love essay revised and polished and published! This class is limited to 12 students and filling up.

05.03.2025 16:50 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Secret Pattern ‘Filtered only through headlines, China had become a political entity more than a physical place where I had grown up, where half of my family still lived.’

A very special essay out with @grantamag.bsky.social. It’s about worship, China, patterns, food deliveries, burials, divinations, gorges, moths, padded bras, and silk worms. To see how it all connects, please give this a read — and share if you enjoyed it 🙏
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21.02.2025 11:08 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 4

Congrats, Sari!!

20.02.2025 19:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh I'm so glad y'all made it!!!!

20.02.2025 19:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This broken world is lucky to have you, Rebecca!

05.02.2025 02:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

05.02.2025 01:34 👍 35837 🔁 6737 💬 494 📌 476

A beautiful read, as always. ❤️

05.02.2025 02:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Now, two decades later, instead of reading or meditating or hiking, I’m staring at my laptop, feeling cut from all sides." But, still, @laviniaspalding.bsky.social - super sis-in-law & scribe! - finds a way to repair, even if just for a moment.

30.01.2025 13:07 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you, dear sista! And thanks for your awesome suggestions! 💕

30.01.2025 20:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Something to Believe In Lavinia Spalding finds meaning in a cardinal's insistent knocking.

Hi, y'all, I'm posting for the first time to say I have a new personal essay up at Memoir Land. Thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving it such a good home and to sis-in-law @meerasub.bsky.social for insightful suggestions on an early draft. I love my congregation of female writers!

29.01.2025 22:23 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Thanks, Bridget!

29.01.2025 18:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, friend!

29.01.2025 18:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0