Lavinia Spalding
@laviniaspalding.bsky.social
Series editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing, author of Writing Away, co-author of Hell's Backbone cookbooks & Frommer’s New Orleans. Words in NYT, Tin House, Longreads, TEDx, AFAR, etc. Co-host of There She Goes podcast, co-founder of Studio Unfurl.
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Some tasty road trip ideas and tips on travel journaling from expert @laviniaspalding.bsky.social in this month’s Saturday Evening Post #Travel #RoadTrips
June 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Some tasty road trip ideas and tips on travel journaling from expert @laviniaspalding.bsky.social in this month’s Saturday Evening Post #Travel #RoadTrips
National Poetry Month might be over, but we can pretend it isn't, right? I wrote my first official thing for Substack. I hope you'll read it....
What We Can Learn from Poets and Place
Plus some musings, a new Modern Love class, and a writing prompt
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May 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
National Poetry Month might be over, but we can pretend it isn't, right? I wrote my first official thing for Substack. I hope you'll read it....
Join me this Monday from 9-11:30 am PT as I demystify writing the Modern Love essay! I'll share everything I've learned from two Modern Love rejections and two acceptances, conversations with the editors & writers, and a ton of research! Learn more and register here! 27powers.org/lavinia-spal...
March 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Join me this Monday from 9-11:30 am PT as I demystify writing the Modern Love essay! I'll share everything I've learned from two Modern Love rejections and two acceptances, conversations with the editors & writers, and a ton of research! Learn more and register here! 27powers.org/lavinia-spal...
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Our Modern Love Submission Workshop w @laviniaspalding.bsky.social is almost full, so this is the time to snap up your spot! Get your Modern Love draft workshopped, revised, and polished.
Register here: www.offassignment.com/modern-love-...
Register here: www.offassignment.com/modern-love-...
March 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Our Modern Love Submission Workshop w @laviniaspalding.bsky.social is almost full, so this is the time to snap up your spot! Get your Modern Love draft workshopped, revised, and polished.
Register here: www.offassignment.com/modern-love-...
Register here: www.offassignment.com/modern-love-...
Let’s get your Modern Love essay revised and polished and published! This class is limited to 12 students and filling up.
OA teacher and contributor @laviniaspalding.bsky.social has published two fantastic essays in the @nytimes.com Modern Love column. Now, she's helping you do the same. Come ready with a draft and develop a tailored revision roadmap with Lavinia and fellow coursemates. Learn more: buff.ly/41pB4bg
March 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Let’s get your Modern Love essay revised and polished and published! This class is limited to 12 students and filling up.
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A very special essay out with @grantamag.bsky.social. It’s about worship, China, patterns, food deliveries, burials, divinations, gorges, moths, padded bras, and silk worms. To see how it all connects, please give this a read — and share if you enjoyed it 🙏
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The Secret Pattern
‘Filtered only through headlines, China had become a political entity more than a physical place where I had grown up, where half of my family still lived.’
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February 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A very special essay out with @grantamag.bsky.social. It’s about worship, China, patterns, food deliveries, burials, divinations, gorges, moths, padded bras, and silk worms. To see how it all connects, please give this a read — and share if you enjoyed it 🙏
granta.com/the-secret-p...
granta.com/the-secret-p...
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"Now, two decades later, instead of reading or meditating or hiking, I’m staring at my laptop, feeling cut from all sides." But, still, @laviniaspalding.bsky.social - super sis-in-law & scribe! - finds a way to repair, even if just for a moment.
Hi, y'all, I'm posting for the first time to say I have a new personal essay up at Memoir Land. Thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving it such a good home and to sis-in-law @meerasub.bsky.social for insightful suggestions on an early draft. I love my congregation of female writers!
Something to Believe In
Lavinia Spalding finds meaning in a cardinal's insistent knocking.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Now, two decades later, instead of reading or meditating or hiking, I’m staring at my laptop, feeling cut from all sides." But, still, @laviniaspalding.bsky.social - super sis-in-law & scribe! - finds a way to repair, even if just for a moment.
Hi, y'all, I'm posting for the first time to say I have a new personal essay up at Memoir Land. Thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving it such a good home and to sis-in-law @meerasub.bsky.social for insightful suggestions on an early draft. I love my congregation of female writers!
Something to Believe In
Lavinia Spalding finds meaning in a cardinal's insistent knocking.
memoirland.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hi, y'all, I'm posting for the first time to say I have a new personal essay up at Memoir Land. Thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving it such a good home and to sis-in-law @meerasub.bsky.social for insightful suggestions on an early draft. I love my congregation of female writers!