nonfiction — News — Jill Kolongowski

A few weeks ago, I read the excellent Dinty Moore’s piece “Pandemic Rant”—a single-sentence rage against this pandemic, against himself, against All Of This. That alerted me to the wonderful new magazine, Complete Sentence Lit, where they only publish single sentence pieces. Now I have my own piece about when my daughter was 8 weeks old, and I was afraid I’d accidentally hurt her. Check it out here, accompanied by a beautiful original watercolor by Zach Schwartz.

essays, writingJill KolongowskiOctober 1, 2020nonfiction, motherhood, essay, complete sentence lit, creative nonfiction

New pandemic writing at LARB!

I have a new essay about being 7 months pregnant as the COVID-19 pandemic begun, from initial scoffing and skepticism to a livestreamed family funeral, to a potentially life-threatening pregnancy complication, and then a small moment of hope from a near-dead tomato plant. You can check it out at the Los Angeles Review of Books!