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STORIES ON SUNDAY: No Contact: Writers on Estrangement with Jenny Bartoy, Danielle Jernigan and Nicole Graev Lipson
Enjoy readings and hear the story behind the stories during this next Stories on Sunday. Registration details to follow, after event + book info.
This edition of Stories on Sunday features an anthology: No Contact: Writers on Estrangement. We’ll be joined by editor Jenny Bartoy and two contributors: Danielle Jernigan and Nicole Graev Lipson. Our associate editor Rae Pagliarulo will lead the discussion.
All Stories on Sundays guest readers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine; Jenny is one of our regular interviewers and Nicole Graev Lipson is a past contributor (and contest finalist!).
About the Series: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly(ish) readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction followed by an author interview + audience Q&A. This is event is free or by donation; Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal.
ABOUT THE BOOK (from BookShop): Estrangement presents an essential existential question: who are we without our family? What kind of person cuts the proverbial umbilical cord and why? And who do we become, once untethered from our kin?
Families fall apart and individuals cut ties for myriad reasons — abuse, politics, mental illness, and addiction, among others — and reunification often is not in the cards. Through thirty-two intimate, first-person accounts, No Contact: Writers on Estrangement counters the prevalent trope of reconciliation as a happy ending, focusing instead on the complex grief, healing, and authenticity found in the rupture from family.
This collection features work by Hannah Bae, Eben E. B. Bein, Soni Brown, Lorne Daniel, Lindsey Danis, Michelle Dowd, Nick Flynn, Stephanie Foo, Gabriela Denise Frank, Susan Ito, Danielle Jernigan, noam keim, Erika Krouse, Monique Laban, Cassandra Lewis, Kate Lewis, Nicole Graev Lipson, Tiffany Aldrich MacBain, Jamal Mahjoub, Onita Morgan-Edwards, Emi Nietfeld, Geneva Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, Anna Qu, Domenica Ruta, Oslyn Serratos, Alyson Shelton, Cheryl Strayed, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Raksha Vasudevan, Jane Wong, and Kristen Millares Young.
ABOUT OUR GUESTS:
Jenny Bartoy is a French American writer, developmental editor, and critic. She’s the editor of No Contact: Writers on Estrangement (Catapult, 2026). Her work appears in several anthologies and in publications such as Hippocampus Magazine, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, Under the Gum Tree, Room, Chicago Review of Books, The Boston Globe, and The Seattle Times among others. She holds a master’s degree in sociocultural anthropology from Columbia University and lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Danielle Jernigan is an essayist, editor, and book coach with a background in birth work, maternal mental health, and publishing. Her Tiny Victory microessay appeared in the New York Times, and she has been quoted in the Washington Post. Her work explores how childhood abuse and birth-related trauma shape matrescence and our capacity to love. Her current project is a literary magazine focused on the same themes. Danielle lives in the Midwest with her youngest child.
Nicole Graev Lipson is the USA Today bestselling author of the memoir in essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters. Her writing has appeared in The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, River Teeth, Hippocampus Magazine, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among other venues. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, selected for The Best American Essays, and shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. Lipson received her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College and lives outside of Boston with her family.
