"One can’t write poetry without love. It is the strongest and the most vital root in poetry."
Autoethnographic Writing
Whether short-form or long-form, personal memoir or speculative fiction, The AutoEthnographer seeks to publish your evocative expressions of the cultural made personal.
"In this autoethnodrama, a woman terminates a pregnancy without telling her husband."
"Give Me a Strawberry Cockroach" is the first article in our 2023 special issue on laughter and tells a story of Japanese language learning and performance.
"Not Forgotten: Another Glimpse into the Funeral Industry" is a new work of flash nonfiction from our columnist Hollace Sheppard.
"I’m Pinkie, the brash I don’t give a fuck alter ego of Renata Ferdinand. I am emerging from the shadows, and blissfully, with my own column."
"At friends’ homes and the inexpensive trattorias where I usually ate, there was always wine and water on the table, but often only one glass."
"This autoethnographic story is about mental illness, specifically bi-polar disorder."
"The Christening Gown' is an autoethnographic exploration of the significance of a family heirloom for an Irish Catholic family in the USA."
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
Our editor Ulla-Maija Matikainen is questioning the call of otherness and narrates her discovery about the sameness that she has seen.
I. Hate. Black. History. Month. And I’m hopeful, that in time, you will come to hate it too!
Ethology is a highly fictionalized ethnographic account of my travels around Tanzania, East Africa during my teens.