Update March 2025
Two years later . . . the manuscript is becoming a book! Indie publisher Carpe Vitam is publishing Everyday Grief this year. Details to come!
xo Cindy
Two years later . . . the manuscript is becoming a book! Indie publisher Carpe Vitam is publishing Everyday Grief this year. Details to come!
xo Cindy
Everyday Grief: An anthology for the voices of grief.
In all my fantastical flights of imagination about what it would be like to be A Writer, creating or editing an anthology never showed up. I’ve submitted—and been accepted—to a few, but producing my own never occurred to me until almost a year ago. Since then I’ve been tiptoeing around it; it felt like an important project, but I had absolutely no idea how to begin it. So, naturally, without any information, planning or connections, I’m going to just do it—isn’t that what the slogan says?
It's called Everyday Grief and the idea for it came from my feeling of being under an avalanche of loss—of all kinds—and not really knowing how to deal with it. The different kinds of loss started to reveal themselves as separate but equal experiences that require energy and attention and not just all lumped together as “I’m sad.” Grief demanded my attention and I was exhausted. And then I realized that I was experiencing the kind of grief that doesn’t go away—it is integrated into who I am and will impact my life from now on.
I will live it every day.
It's called Everyday Grief and the idea for it came from my feeling of being under an avalanche of loss—of all kinds—and not really knowing how to deal with it. The different kinds of loss started to reveal themselves as separate but equal experiences that require energy and attention and not just all lumped together as “I’m sad.” Grief demanded my attention and I was exhausted. And then I realized that I was experiencing the kind of grief that doesn’t go away—it is integrated into who I am and will impact my life from now on.
I will live it every day.
Please Note: All submissions were reviewed and considered. The need for clarity, avoidance of repetition, and available space
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The publisher made the final determination of the selected pieces.
guided our selections. Be assured, your contribution was respected and valued.
The publisher made the final determination of the selected pieces.