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10/16/2026

Big congratulations to Shanda McManus! 🎉

Shanda started writing in Project Write Now's memoir classes, then joined book inc as a founding member and one of our Memoir Incubator PALs.

Now she’s featured in Poets & Writers’ “5 Over 50” in the November/December 2026 issue, the magazine’s eleventh annual celebration of debut authors age fifty and over.

Shanda is a family medicine physician and a native Philadelphian. She writes about where life, race, and medicine meet. Her memoir, "Brother Epistles: A Sister’s Memoir," is out now from Split/Lip Press.

We’ve been cheering her on from the start, and seeing her work recognized on a national stage means the world to our community.

Read her essay in the issue at https://www.pw.org/content/5_over_50_2026?article_page=4

There’s no deadline on becoming a writer. 🐙 Join our writing community at bookinc.org.

10/08/2026

"How was the book launch?" 📚

Two and a half months after pub day, Elizabeth Jannuzzi says the answer isn't past tense. In the latest Inside Scoop, Liz gets real about the roller coaster of launching her debut memoir, SOBER MOM: glowing reader texts, stalled Amazon reviews, the dreaded Canva Vortex, and the moment she realized she's officially part of the writing world.

Read the full post on the book inc journal. 🔗 https://bookinc.org/the-book-launch-its-ongoing/

10/01/2026

Afraid to share a draft that doesn't feel ready? In this month's Ask Tina, Tina Goodyear explains why polish comes last, how to find your trusted readers, and which specific questions get you feedback that actually helps. Read the full column at https://bookinc.org/ask-tina-how-to-share-your-work-before-it-feels-ready/

If you have a question for Tina, send it to [email protected].

09/24/2026

Meet the Peer Artist Leaders for our 2027 Novel Incubator! ✍️

Kaecey McCormick, poet, fiction writer, and former Poet Laureate of Cupertino, finished her first full novel draft in Novel Incubator in 2025. Now she's querying book one, revising book two, and starting book three alongside our new cohort in January.

Erin Mayes, a former newspaper reporter turned fiction writer, is ready to draft a time-travel thriller born over a slice of pizza and a blast of '90s rock.

On the journal, they talk about why fiction draws them, how they keep momentum over a yearlong project, and what they do when they hit the wall (hiking, journaling, and yes, the shower).

Have a novel idea you're ready to see all the way to a first draft? Join us. Applications for 2027 programs are open now.

Read the full Q&A at bookinc.org. 📚

09/17/2026

In our latest Journal post, book inc writer .moriarty.798 gets honest about the tension every memoirist faces: how you order your story shapes what you include, and what you include shapes how you order your story. No easy answers, just the real, messy work of drafting.

Read the full post at https://bookinc.org/inside-a-memoir-incubator-balancing-structure-content-and-peer-feedback/

Thinking about writing your own memoir in a year? Applications for the 2027 Book Incubators are open now.

09/10/2026

📚 New on the book inc Journal

What does it mean to be a literary citizen? PAL Michele Cantos Garcia explores how supporting fellow writers—reviews, book gifts, library requests—has deepened her own writing life.

"It is nourishing to a writer's soul."

Read it now 🔗https://bookinc.org/read-rave-review-how-i-am-becoming-a-literary-citizen/

09/09/2026

We are now accepting applications for book inc's 2027 programs! ✍️

🐙 Memoir & Novel Incubator – yearlong, guides you from idea to finished draft (begins Jan 21, 2027)
🐙 Story Lab (new!) – 6-week workshop to turn your draft into a story readers can't put down (begins Jan 21, 2027)
🐙 Book Revision Lab (new format!) – 4-month deep revision process (begins Mar 11, 2027)
🐙 The Full Revision Path – combine Story Lab + Book Revision Lab and save

Scholarships & payment plans available. Curious first? Join our free Open House Thu, Nov 5, 5 to 6 p.m. ET / 2 to 3 p.m. PT.

Learn more → bookinc.org

08/20/2026

book inc writer Jamie Yieh walks into the Writer's Digest Conference certain he doesn't belong, and walks out convinced he's part of the club.

Read the latest installment of our Field Notes column at https://bookinc.org/imposter-to-insider-my-first-book-conference/

08/17/2026

Congratulations to book inc writer Eileen Toomey, whose flash creative nonfiction piece "Widow Training [Field Notes]" has been nominated for Best of the Net by "Flash the Court"! We're so proud to celebrate this recognition of her powerful work.

Read it here: https://flashthecourt.com/2025/11/07/widow-training-field-notes-by-eileen-toomey/

08/06/2026

📝 New on the book inc Journal: Ask Tina tackles a question more debut writers are running into these days—"what genre IS this thing?"

This time, a writer's memoir-turned-fiction has them stuck between creative nonfiction, autofiction, and everything in between. Tina digs into the blurry lines of "fiction based on life experience," name-drops a few genre-bending reads for comparison, and lands on some reassuring advice for anyone wrestling with the same question.

Got a writing dilemma of your own? Tina's taking questions at [email protected].

🔗 Read the full column at https://bookinc.org/ask-tina-what-genre-is-my-book-anyway/

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