Beijing Bicycle (+Review)
Beijing Bicycle is a coming-of-age story of two teenage boys in the city whose lives become intertwined through the ownership of a bicycle. One is a country boy, seeking a […]
Author Archives: Grace Newton
Lines: A Theatre Lila Invention ( + Response)
Toward the end of last month, my mother invited me to see a play with her by Theatre Lila called Lines. Theatre Lila is a performing arts group that seeks […]
Ten Names of My First Mother
This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and with this particular holiday comes a barrage of unresolved feelings of grief and loss for many adoptees. I wrote about this last year in a […]
Musings about Language and Loss
by Rachel Rostad – Korean adoptee, writer and poet, former schoolmate, Fulbright Korea I recently took part in an Adoptees Speak project which inspired the following lil musing about language, […]
Disrupted Adoption of 5-Year-Old
While scrolling through my newsfeed on Facebook today, I saw a post by Second Chance Adoptions shared in a group of which I am a member. The post was advertising […]
Micro Prose: Birth Mother, Portraiture by Erinrose Mager
Originally posted on NEW SOUTH:
Birth Mother, Portraiture Another moon face, unsmiling. She has placed the green tea kettle atop the kitchen stove’s lit burner. She looks not at her…
Thoughts about the Hart family
Originally posted on Harlow's Monkey:
The first thing I tried to do was find photos of the six Hart children without their parents, wanting to celebrate the short lives…
I’m Articulate, And No That Doesn’t Mean I’m White
by Ollin Montes – originally published in Gazillion Voices Magazine, 2014 My love affair began in second grade. This relationship started with playful cuddling on comfy chairs during reading time […]
Wearing my Adoptee Identity
This is a pendant that was gifted to me by a Korean adoptee friend right before I embarked on my four month journey back to my hometown, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. […]
Travel is Life-Changing; This I Believe
I was cleaning out an old thumb drive and found this short essay I wrote in high school. The assignment was based on the criteria for NPR’s This I Believe […]
Red Thread Broken 