Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Dec 2, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Douglas Field |Aimee Christian |Julia Preston |Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by Sari Botton, now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Happy Messes,” by .

Nov 27, 2024 | thecut.com | Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Photo-Illustration: Najeebah Al-Ghadban I haven’t talked to my in-laws for some time. A period of mutual silence stretched, glacial and peaceful, for seven years. Then just before the election, in late October, I received a letter from my mother-in-law, written on behalf of them both, asking if there was a path to reconciliation. My in-laws are white, from the South and Midwest. My father-in-law, now retired, was a pastor in a Southern Baptist church. My mother-in-law was a nurse.

Apr 3, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Ingrid Rojas Contreras |Fernández Rojas |Maria Fernanda |María Fernanda |Ceballos Escalante

Fernández Rojas, Maria Fernanda[1];Ceballos Escalante, María Alejandra[1];Contreras, Ingrid[1][1]Universidad de Los AndesLocalización: Educando para educar, ISSN 2007-1469, Nº. 42, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Septiembre 2021 - Febrero 2022; 182 p.), págs.

Mar 11, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Mikhail Bulgakov |Larissa Volokhonsky |Ingrid Rojas Contreras |Katya Apekina

Reading Lists Katya Apekina recommends stories about characters who can predict the future and connect to the other side The process of writing, when it’s going well, feels like psychic channeling. You start typing and who knows what’s going to pour out or where it’s coming from? I’ve always felt a little psychic, a little witch— writing things that end up coming true, sensing the truth of a situation before I consciously understand it. I remember talking to a friend who also considered...

Jan 18, 2024 | flipboard.com | Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Alleged leader of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped and killed Americans, is captured in MexicoMexican marines detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed two of them in March …