Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #51
Featuring Shawn Lawlor, Bryn Pottie, Merilyn Simonds, and David Elias
Why I Wrote This Book
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #49
Featuring Halina St. James, Giles Blunt, John Brady McDonald, and A. Jamali Rad
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #48
Featuring Bruce Hunter, Sean Minogue, Ivanka Fear, and Callista Markotich
Why I Wrote This Book Issue #47
Featuring Pearl Pirie, Alexis Von Konigslow, Caitlin Galway, and Farah Ghafoor
Why I Wrote this Book Issue #46
Featuring Lindsay Zier-Vogel, Martha Bátiz, Saad Omar Khan, and Christy Climenhage
“Why I Wrote this Book” AAPI Heritage Month Special Edition — Su Chang’s The Immortal Woman
This essay was originally published on Our Patreon in February 2025. Here it is again for AAPI Heritage Month ❤️
Why I Wrote This Book Mental Health Awareness Month Special Edition: Myna Wallin Muses on Psychiatry Then and Now
This was originally published on our Patreon in October 2024. We’re re-sharing it here to kick off Mental Health Awareness Month, May 2025.
Why I Wrote This Book Issue #45
Featuring Ben Ladouceur, Linda Trinh, Luke Francis Beirne, and Kevin Craig
Why I Wrote This Book Issue #44 — MORE Poetry!!
Featuring Natalie Lim, Kyle Flemmer, Steven Mayoff, and Alexey Soshalskiy
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #43 — Dead Writers Takeover Issue!
Dead Writers is a collaborative fiction project of novella-length stories by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum. In this issue of Why I Wrote this Book, each author tells us why they wrote their pieces!
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #42 — POETRY ONLY!
Featuring Susan Wismer, Tolu Oloruntoba, Chris Bailey, and Lisa Timpf
Why I Wrote this Book: Issue #41
Featuring Saad T Farooqi, Shawna Lemay, Jamie Kitts, and sophie anne edwards
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #40
Featuring Chelene Knight, Sheila Stewart, Damian Tarnopolsky, and Luciana Erregue
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #39
Featuring Caroline Topperman, Carolyne Vandermeer, Rajinderpal S Pal, and Karen Green
