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Loss Series 1: Coping with Pet Bereavement and My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat, ‘Timi’

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 4, Issue 2 (2024)

·June 1, 2024·7 min read

Coping with Pet Bereavement: My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat 'Timi' is definitely not a farewell; it is only a love letter for my beloved cat who got lost on January 15, 2023, days after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit southern Türkiye. Like my country, I was also shaken deeply, and like the buildings, my heart almost collapsed.

Camping and Building Powerful Connections at Bull Trout Lake

Heidi Naylor·

All Content Laughter Special Issue, 2023 Special Issues

·October 1, 2023·15 min read

is an essay about the way technology can intrude and obscure what may be our most important human experiences

Odesa Revisited: Imagination and Terror

Michael Serby·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Volume 3, Issue 4 (2023)

·November 12, 2023·12 min read

Odesa addresses the traumas of struggling immigrants, who face rejection and shunning rather than acceptance and understanding.

Finding Home Within: Introducing Singer/Songwriter Florencia Rusiñol

Florencia Rusinol·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

·December 21, 2022·2 min read

"While living in Ecuador, I wrote “Home” which essentially is an homage to the “third-culture kid” phenomenon, when your parents are from another country than the one you grew up in."

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Processing Parental Grief: The Joy of the Surprise Letter

Michelle Shreeve·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Volume 3, Issue 2 (2023)

·June 16, 2023·11 min read

In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.

Book Review: Patricia Leavy’s Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research

Dilek Isler Hayirli·

All Content More News, Interviews & Reviews Volume 4, Issue 2 (2024)

·June 4, 2024·4 min read

Leavy’s Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research is a comprehensive guide that navigates the intricate landscape of qualitative research from the writing phase to publishing.

Autoethnographic Fiction: Out of the Rain and Sun

Mark Putzi·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Volume 3, Issue 1 (2023)

·January 14, 2023·33 min read

"This autoethnographic story is about mental illness, specifically bi-polar disorder."

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Autoethnographic Poetry: Embodying Bipolarism in Mania Variations II

Amanda Sieradzki·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·October 17, 2021·9 min read

"I called out the demons one by one. I named them. I gave them precise blocking and ultimately, I controlled where they stood, breathed, and bourréed. I gave them an entrance, and a stage, and then I sent them away."

Empowering The Rainbow: How to Fight The Normalization Of Toxic Masculinity

Nicole Shim·

All Content Education More Volume 3, Issue 3 (2023)

·September 17, 2023·10 min read

I use autoethnography to provide first-hand observations in the predominantly conservative English classroom as a way to analyze and understand a rise in toxic masculinity and its detrimental impacts.

Of the Monsters They Cannot See – Anxiety Tales

Lucy Steward·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 3, Issue 4 (2023)

·November 29, 2023·4 min read

This sestina poem reflects and validates my own personal experience as a 14-year-old who was dealing with something I couldn’t initially even name; anxiety.