Beth Kephart

Here comes my life, here it comes on the power (and emotional disarray) of juxtaposed images

Thoughts on the juxtaposed image. In life. In story. The @auraframes.bsky.social and memory. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/here-comes...

Look what we've done! xo

@bethkephart.bsky.social always beats me to the post! I am so incredibly happy that Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News is a finalist for this award. A huge thank you to #ForewordReviews. Brava, dear Beth!

So grateful to #ForewordReviews for this honor. So grateful to @tursulowepress.bsky.social for saying yes, and to Jessie for becoming one of my dearest friends in the world.
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In a house of few mirrors, I tell myself I am young when you see difference, the world becomes infinite

On wanting more of knowing and more of time and more of the infinite that Japanese names for color describe. #monoJapan thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/in-a-house...

"Every book is, at first, an unproven thing, an improbable fit, an act of heroics set against historical odds. Every book is nothing at all. Until we come along and write (or draw)." ~ Beth Kephart / @bethkephart.bsky.social

Oh my gosh, Dinty. Here you are. And I am ... with you! Thank you.

Orange Jasmine Tree what is shattering? what endures?

What is shattering? What is enduring? What is beauty? What is a poem? thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/orange-jas...

Thank you, Roz —

There's a lot I don't know about you when skating and writing were the same thing, and childhood was forever

When skating and writing are the same one thing. #iceskating #writing #memoir #sewing #substack thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/theres-a-l...

Thank you so much, Roz —

So very grateful to The Porch for choosing my collection of prose poem monologues as the winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize and for publishing the 7000 words in their beautiful print magazine, Swing.

So very grateful to The Porch for choosing my collection of prose poem monologues as the winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize and for publishing the 7000 words in their beautiful print magazine, Swing.

And now it is my turn in the conversation, and I say— (an almost Valentine's Day love note)

What is the only story in our lives is the story in our heads? Musings on this, in today's Substack post: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/and-now-it...

Make a Scene what are your afterwords?

What scenes will define us, hold us, remember for us? A post today, musing on those questions. #writingworkshop #memoir #scenebuilding #scenes thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/scenes-are...

On Deciding a list, a prayer, a self-reckoning

But how do we decide? Or turn a list into a prose poem? Thoughts today, in advance of a #writersworkshop: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/on-deciding

Always so generous, Roz. Thank you.

The Literary List and the Art of Transcendence By Beth Kephart Decades ago, in my first writing workshop, a writer among us in that old stone building on that hilltop in Spoleto responded to nearly every prompt with a list. Lists about love. Li…

The wonderful magical literary list. And the #poets and #writers who turn them into meaningful stories.. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/t...

You Could Be an Artist a rare exchange in a sandwich shop about the priorities that guide us

But what makes an artist? How do we recognize the artist in each other? #artist #sandwichshops #youngpeoplewisdom thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/you-could-...

You Could Be an Artist a rare exchange in a sandwich shop about the priorities that guide us

Artists recognise each other. We know the signs of a person who is devoted to the creative life. Love this piece by @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/you-could-... #writinglife #authorlife #creativity

Our June memoir workshop series, illustrated by my husband, William Sulit, is now live at Juncture Workshops. junctureworkshops.com/shop-6/#shop

Coming this June from Juncture Workshops (with the site going live this weekend): three workshops plus one sharing session designed to elevate our understanding of this world and the possibilities of language. Art by my husband, William Sulit. #writingworkshops #memoirworkshops #artandlife

Small groups of people really can change the world. Call it the power of small numbers: the unreasonable, improbable, wonderful ability of small groups of outsiders to challenge huge powers precisely because they have strengths that those powers see as weakness.

— Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger

But what do we see in our mind's eye? and what if you were to speak through threads and color?

What do you see in your mind's eye when you look back or when you prepare to tell/write a story? I see mood and atmosphere, which become, for me now, paper and color. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/but-what-d...

Also, your graphics are gorgeous.

This is wonderfully exciting. Congratulations!

xo

The Day was Rain; the Mood was Mourning legacy must be lasting

On sorrow and in memory. #ReneeNicoleGood thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-day-wa...

Thank you, Nancy. I share your grief. I do.

Grief as Honor, Not as Penance love in the aftermath

The long aftermath of love. A story of grief and honoring. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/ongoing-a-...