Madelyn Postman – Writer – memoir, narrative nonfiction, literary fiction

Madelyn Postman

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Memoir & Chinese & European Jewish immigrants to California 📙 @hopeprize @simonschusterau anthology 📗 @oxford_flash anthology 📘 @livinapress

This sums up my planned holiday writing, except wi

This sums up my planned holiday writing, except without any cleaning 😂

Posted @withregram • @asherperlman

#amnotwriting #writerslife

Reading the twenty stories in the @hopeprize antho

Reading the twenty stories in the @hopeprize anthology, Tomorrow There Will Be Sun, is a journey from darkness to light, time and time again. I did come across a few things I’ll edit in my story for the version I’m using to query literary agents for representation of my full nine-story, 46k-word collection.

@simonschusterau @beyondblueofficial

#amediting #amquerying

If you want to hear one take on writing memoir and

If you want to hear one take on writing memoir and some Frankenstein of narrative nonfiction and historical fiction based on family history, check out this @collaborcast episode!

It was a huge honor to be able to discuss my work in great depth with Jason Buchholz and Ben LeRoy 🙏🙏🙏

Go to Press 🎙️ link in bio or look for Collaborcast on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts.

#collaborcast #amwritingmemoir #amwriting #amquerying #writerspodcast

Almost wasn’t going to do this unboxing video. S

Almost wasn’t going to do this unboxing video. So glad I did! Thanks @christophlondon

@hopeprize @simonschusterau @readingsbooks @parker_geppert @_kate_hammer

💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

Check out The Spark podcast & newsletter, December

Check out The Spark podcast & newsletter, December edition. Interview with thriller author Alex Pavesi, plus reading recs, writing tips and resources, and my updates!

Link in bio The Spark 💥

Find out what I’m impatient about!

Find out what I’m impatient about!

Check out the latest episode of @collaborcast! I w

Check out the latest episode of @collaborcast! I was incredibly honored to be a special guest, and was given the opportunity to talk at length about my writing, answering Jason Buchholz and Ben LeRoy’s thoughtful questions.

Jason of Collaborist assessed my manuscript in spring 2023 and was instrumental in giving early encouragement, validation, and direction.

Go to Press 🎙️ link in bio to listen to the episode. Or watch it — it’s on YouTube too!

Bit of a different writing location for me today a

Bit of a different writing location for me today at @uniofbath @team_bath Sports Training Village

#writinglife #amwriting

Believe it or not, this was the @nytimes Mini on t

Believe it or not, this was the @nytimes Mini on the launch day of the @hopeprize anthology! 😮

ABC Radio Melbourne’s The Conversation Hour feat

ABC Radio Melbourne’s The Conversation Hour featured The Hope Prize anthology launch in the episode “How do we find hope?”

The CEO of mental health charity Beyond Blue Georgie Harman and the first prize winner of The Hope Prize, John Merkel, joined the discussion.

I had the opportunity to talk about my short story “Things My Dad Told Me” and my work in sustainability, starting at 46:20. Link is on the Writing page of my Website ✏️ link in bio.

@abclisten @richelle_hunt @theimpossiblefarmher @hopeprize @simonschusterau @readingsbooks @beyondblueofficial @mistermerkel @grainlondon @1percentftp

I’m liken’ this symbiotic lichen 💚

I’m liken’ this symbiotic lichen 💚

A chilled-out afternoon in London with friends and

A chilled-out afternoon in London with friends and then food delivery and a couple episodes of Taskmaster 😍

🎉 CELEBRATING publication day of Tomorrow There

🎉 CELEBRATING publication day of Tomorrow There Will Be Sun, the Hope Prize anthology!

Published by @simonschusterau with all royalties going to mental health charity @beyondblueofficial

@readingsbooks is also a partner of the prize.

If I could teleport, I would have been at the launch party last night in Melbourne.

This is a screen recording of the @hopeprize stories — sorry if it’s a confusing as hell to post it as a reel!

🎉 Today has arrived!! It’s publication day fo

🎉 Today has arrived!! It’s publication day for Tomorrow There Will Be Sun, the @hopeprize anthology!

It includes my story, “Things My Dad Told Me,” the first in my (as yet unpublished) short story collection.

Posted @withregram • @simonschusterau Happy Publication Day 📚✨

☀️ Tomorrow There Will be Sun (@hopeprize)
💫 Stranger Skies by Pascale Lacelle (@pascalelacelle)
💗 A False Start by Elsie Silver (@authorelsiesilver)
💎 Heist Royale by Kayvion Lewis (@kayvionclewis)
✨ Unravelled by Shannon Messenger (@sw_messenger)
📚 Murriyang by Stan Grant (@stangrantanchor)
❤️ Forever, Interuppted by Taylor Jenkins Reid (@tjenkinsreid)
🔥 Glow of the Everflame by Penn Cole (@authorpenncole)
📚 The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (@marjankamali7)
❄️ The North Wind by Alexndria Warwick (@alexandriawarwick)
💜 Powerless by Lauren Roberts (@laurenrobertslibrary)

💛 Publication date is Wednesday 4th December!!

💛 Publication date is Wednesday 4th December!! @hopeprize @simonschusterau all royalties to @beyondblueofficial 💙

Wow. Just wow. Never seen so many pastries and dec

Wow. Just wow. Never seen so many pastries and decadent cakes in my life.

I’d just eaten breakfast, so I only had some freshly-pressed juice and my daughter’s borscht. She had sauerkraut and mushroom pierogis and my husband had goulash, then potato pancakes with sour cream.

At Gosia’s Cafe in Teddington, west London.

For most of 2002, I took a photo every day and upl

For most of 2002, I took a photo every day and uploaded it to madomat.com (which now redirects to my author website, madelynpostman.com). You can probably see it on the Wayback Machine internet archive.

This discarded Twister box was exactly the kind of ephemera I would snap with my digital camera 📷

This is my parallel life, according to Rev.com cap

This is my parallel life, according to Rev.com captioning 😂

📣 Finally uploaded the full reading of “His B

📣 Finally uploaded the full reading of “His Bones” at the @oxford_flash anthology launch at the @bodleianlibraries of @oxford_uni

👉 Go to my Website ✏️ link in bio and scroll down on the Writing page to watch it!

🙏 Thanks so much to @parker_geppert and @christophlondon for filming it, and audio engineer @anthonypostman_mercurycalling for cleaning up the audio.

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