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Jacqueline Doyle
San Francisco Bay Area writer.
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Lil Nas X
When People with Bipolar Mood Disorder Make the News
Some recent creative nonfiction
And some thoughts on hybridity and The Lunatics' Ball
Three Flash in New World Writing Quarterly
I don't only write about lunatics
Exactly One Hundred Years Ago Today, Violet Gibson Attempted to Assassinate Mussolini
On my flash about Violet Gibson in my forthcoming essay collection The Lunatics' Ball and on recent readings and salons
My Essay “Normal” published in Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s NERVE TO WRITE
Thrilled that my short essay “Normal,” originally intended for The Lunatics’ Ball and then set aside before I assembled the collection, found a home in the inaugural issue of Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s journal Nerve to Write!
Missing Girls, Hidden Women
I loved reading at Books on B yesterday with Patricia Bidar, Lynn Mundell, and Dawn Tasaka Steffler at the launch for Patricia’s flash collection Pardon Me for Moonwalking. I read an unpublished flash from The Lunatics’ Ball (more on that next month, on the centenary of the event featured in my flash).
The Lunatics’ Ball: Some Backstory and the Invitation List
Our suburban New Jersey household in the nineteen-sixties was a dark one, my depressed mother sleeping all day, my parents bickering every night over cocktails.
Upcoming reading (with a mystery flash from The Lunatics’ Ball)!
Friends in the East Bay!
The Lunatics' Ball accepted for publication in the 21st Century Essays series!
I’m so excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection The Lunatics’ Ball is first runner-up for The Gournay Prize and will be published by Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press in their 21st Century Essays series next year.