SPONSORS
We call them our Big Mamas.
Meet some of the people who stepped up right away, as excited about this project as we are. All of them are me
mbers of the Substack community, as writers and readers. They believe in our mission: to shine a very bright light on the injustices we face every single day. They believe in us and the stories we must tell, every day of our lives.
They help make this project real. We are more than grateful, we are gobsmacked.
If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, DM me, so we can discuss your level of sponsorship. Open to all kinds of possibilities.
She Writes Press is an award-winning hybrid publishing company that’s both mission-driven and community-oriented. Led by Publisher Brooke Warner, She Writes Press has published 2300 books to date, with a specific goal to elevate women’s voices and level the playing field for indie authors. In 2016, She Writes Press won the Book Industry Study Group’s Innovator Award, and in 2019, the press was named Indie Publisher of the Year by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group. She Writes Press is a multi-award-winning publisher whose books have won over 3,000 awards. The press’s commitment to excellence has made it the gold standard in hybrid publishing since its founding in 2012.
In addition to She Writes Press, Brooke publishes the weekly Substack newsletter Writerly Things with Brooke Warner, where she writes on memoir, publishing trends, and the author mindset. Brooke is a co-founder of the podcast, Memoir Nation, also on Substack.
A fan of writers, readers, artists, and book covers, every month on Short Attention Span Reader, Jodi judges a book by its cover alone. No books were harmed––or read––in the making of these videos. This is not your mother’s book club. Jodi will review your book (cover), too!
Elizabeth is a film & media producer at Emboddity, artist, writer, and stroke survivor. She writes about the body and contributed a great story to the Death & Taxes slam in April 2026. You’ll find her story here.
Amy’s a multifaceted midlife woman and a widowed mom. Exploring the intersection of sexuality and grief as a catalyst for growth after catastrophic loss. Follow along as she reinvents her life. Amy’s new book Widow in the City, was published in May 2026 and is available on Bookshop and Amazon.
Meet my first Big Mama! And kids, she’s the real thing. My mama. Diane Tepper. Without HER, I wouldn’t be HERE doing this thing...so thanks for that Mom. We’ve had a lot of ups and downs but we keep coming back together, trying our damnedest to get this Mother & Daughter thing right. Sometimes it’s harder than others, but yes, I do love this old redhead. I didn’t make that moniker up. That’s what she calls herself. Trust me. She’s a redhead. You may not see it now, but it’s there. It’s an attitude more than anything. And she’s a lefty. Even though I make fun of her incessant photo-snapping (see the video), she’s awfully good at it. Here’s the story I told about us at the Mothers & Daughters slam in May 2026.
My mom made me a reader and gave me a great design sense to boot.
Socially anxious misfit overthinker learning to be brave anyway. Co-creator of In A Nutshell Storytelling, Wildcard Story Swap, and The Nutshell True Story Hour. She also publishes This Might Go Terribly. Writer, editor, storyteller. Failed to hike the Pacific Crest Trail three time. She walked 5 million miles on the Camino in May 2026 (I’m exaggerating the 5,000,000. It was more like 4,500,000. I round up. Just minutes after we announced the birth of Wham! Bam! Thank You! Slam! Amy swooped in and became our first Big Mama! She’s telling a story in our June event, Kill the Patriarchy. Can’t wait to hear it. Amy and Nan became friends and then realized that they’re cosmic twins!
Michael Boccio has been one of Nan’s benefactors from the beginning of her tenure on Substack, as a paid subscriber to The Next Write Thing, and then as soon as she announced the birth of Wham! Bam! Thank You! Slam!, Michael was right there, after Amy Bee and became our second Big Mama. We call our Founding Subscribers “Big Mamas” here, and he had absolutely no problem with that.
We want you to be a member of our community.
If you value feminist voices, women’s voices, and marginalized voices and want to hear the stories of our lives, this is the place. Wham! Bam! Thank You! Slam!
The world feels scarier than ever right now. We must witness and fight the injustice, the oppression, and the attempts to control our freedom. If you’d like to explore options for sponsorship, reach out to Nan for a friendly Zoom.
About our fiscal sponsor
Fractured Atlas is a 501(c)(3) arts organization that supports artists and creatives in fundraising and crowdsourcing. We have been granted a fiscal sponsorship, which allows us to receive donations that provide a tax-deduction (allowable by law) to our donors.
