Reader & Writer
I've started a new series--you still have time to catch up--at my Freeze Frame Substack based upon my own self-doubts about being a writer. Writer. Gardener. Grandmother. While still working another job. You see, like most of us, writer is just a fraction of my life, while taking up a lot of my time. It's... Continue Reading →
Check out a new piece at Wild Greens Magazine. https://www.wildgreensmagazine.com/archive/april-2026-vi-vi#h.z2znarx3yh0i I'd had the shorty in my portfolio for almost 2 years and it finally found a home in an issue of Wild Greens with a theme of transportation. It's LOOSELY based upon a real persona nd a real incident, none of which happened at the... Continue Reading →
Soooo it wasn’t exactly a launch, since the book had several soft coming outs, but last week we had a party to celebrate Woman of a Certain Age. And oh my goodness. Yes I was nervous and scared—but I wasn’t doing it by myself. I had Dawn Burns a professor in the Rhetoric Dept. at... Continue Reading →
Actually this piece has BEEN out. I just didn’t know it. Someone at work was asking about my new book, Woman of a Certain Age, a story collection, and I said let me show you my website. I googled my name and up popped the piece, published online in Third Wednesday. Okay, that’s a surprise.... Continue Reading →
A creative nonfiction piece, commonly called The Essay—is out now! About a trip I took in 2007 to Albania, I know, no one goes to Albania. Albania is a weird mix of contradictions=cultural progress meets social mores, modernity butts up against resistance to change, hundreds of years of political upheaval. Versus. Versus. Turning towards. Against.... Continue Reading →
A piece that was accepted ages ago and is out now. Hoot Literary Review is a postcard, Sea of Lingerie is their November postcard, which yu can order--this from their website: The idea is: -to have stories and poems on a postcard, so that they can be displayed and shared easily. Stick it on the... Continue Reading →
My piece Circa 1984 has been nominated by Switch for the Best Microfiction 2026. Best Microfiction 2026 will be published by Pelekinesis in the summer of 2026. The Best Microfiction anthology series considers stories of only 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O’Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology will have Pulitzer Prize winning poet Diane... Continue Reading →
I have a new series underway at https://janehertenstein.substack.com/ What’s the difference between Freeze Frame (Substack) and Memoirous (the blog you’re reading)? I’m trying to build up the professional side of my writing and promote my Flash Memoir Workshops. Right now my Substack articles are FREE but would eventually like to use Substack commercially, a bit... Continue Reading →
All eBooks 50% Off at Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/chicagojane All my books are currently 50% off—a great chance to pick up my two how-to books on writing flash memoir, plus 365 Affirmations for the Writer (bonus material with prompts). This is a book to take the writer into the new year with inspiration for EVERY day. Quotes... Continue Reading →
From my friend, Lotta: THANK YOU!
Jane Hertenstein 