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Mallary Tenore Tarpley's avatar

Thank you for sharing this, Amy!

I write a lot of reported personal essays, and it’s been a great way to share my story and draw attention to issues I care about with hopes of helping others.

It has also been a nice way to spread the word about my forthcoming memoir, “SLIP,” which is available for pre-order now and will be out in August.

Here’s my latest personal essay, published a few weeks ago in the Tampa Bay Times. It’s about how, as a mother in recovery from anorexia, I’m helping my children navigate body image.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/02/13/im-recovery-anorexia-heres-how-im-helping-my-daughter-navigate-body-image/

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Kristin Fellows's avatar

This goes back a few years, but I had a personal essay, "Getting Naked with a Dragon in Finland" published in Finland's Inktank @ https://inktank.fi/finnish-public-sauna-experience-kotiharjun-kallio-helsinki/

It did not pay (back then), but it was fun to have something published in a Finnish publication.

If anyone else is interested in pitching them, Inktank is "Finland’s most internationally visited blog. On average, we’re read by five hundred thousand wonderful people every month. To keep them entertained, engaged and excited, we write about Finland, books, history, music, the Web, film, TV and pop culture. Highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between if it’s exciting we’ll feature it."

"Getting Naked with a Dragon" also won an International Solas Award in the Adventure Travel category in 2023.

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