| July 16, 2026
book inc writers Liz Jannuzzi and Jen Gaites trade craft advice on character repetition, showing how a recurring gesture only works when it reveals something true about a character.
Writers
Writers
Elizabeth Jannuzzi
program director
Biography
Elizabeth Jannuzzi is the author of Sober Mom: A Memoir (July 2026). Her work explores themes of loss, motherhood, and recovery from alcoholism, and has appeared in HuffPost, Under the Gum Tree, The Rumpus, Memoir Monday, WOW! Women On Writing, The Brevity Blog, and more. Elizabeth earned a Best of the Net nomination in 2023. She is the program director at Project Write Now, a nonprofit writing organization. She resides in New Jersey and engages with her audience through a weekly Substack newsletter.
Website: elizabethjannuzzi.com
Substack: @elizabethjannuzzi
Instagram: @lizjannuzzi
Facebook: @lizjannuzzi
Bluesky: @lizjannuzzi.bsky.social
Threads: @lizjannuzzi
Linked In: @Elizabeth-Jannuzzi
Journal Entries
| May 21, 2026
In "Don't Hide Behind the Cake: Bake Your Memoir With Real Ingredients," published on April 16 in "The Brevity Blog," book inc program director Elizabeth Jannuzzi draws a parallel between vague recove...
| February 19, 2026
book inc program director Elizabeth Jannuzzi lets go of her need to explain hybrid publishing and simply celebrates that her memoir will be in bookstores in July.
| October 9, 2025
Debut memoirist Liz Jannuzzi confronts the fear of sharing her vulnerable addiction story, drawing courage from Melissa Febos's blunt advice to prioritize her mission over others' judgment.
| September 18, 2025
Memoirist Elizabeth Jannuzzi discusses the last days of drafting her memoir before the Memoir Incubator's September deadline.
Publications
Creative Nonfiction
- January 2026 | “The Pebbles and the Scream” | Under the Gum Tree
- January 2025 | “Hope Arrived” | AA Grapevine
- October 2024 | “Purgatory in Two Parts” | WOW-Women on Writing – Q4 Essay Contest Runner Up
- December 2023 | “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace” | The Rumpus, Voices on Addiction
- August 2023 | “Operation Dog” | Counter Clock – Nominated for Best of the Net
- April 2023 | “Four Siblings On a Rock” | Off Topic Publishing
- March 2023 | “Despair and a Desk” | HerStry
- September 2020 | “Just Breathe” | Pangyrus
- July 2019 | “How to Set the Dining Room Table” | Cagibi –Shortlisted for Cagibi’s Macron Prize
- April 2018 | “Fire on the Mountain” | Entropy
- September 2018 | “First Love & Then a Death” | Mothers Always Write
- March 2018 | “Holding My Breath” | Grapevine
Fiction
- July 2025 | “An Ode to the Bleeding Deacons” | Suddenly, And Without Warning
Articles
- April 4, 2026 | “I Just Learned About ‘Potted Plant’ Parenting — And Let Me Just Say, No Thanks!” | HuffPost Personal
- December 2, 2017 | “Project Write Now Invites Visiting Writer to Share Her Wisdom” | Two River Times
Blogs
- April 29, 2024 | “Memoir Writing – It’s a ‘We’ Program” | The Brevity Blog
- October 21, 2022 | “Is My Hair On Fire? How to Find Writable Moments” | Writers Institute News
- July 28, 2022 | “DIY Writers Retreat” | Writers Institute News
- April 5, 2022 | “On Writing & Walking” | Writers Institute News
Events
- May 2026 | Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference with Leslie Jamison | Brevard, NC
- August 2024 | Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Writers’ Conference with Paul Lisicky | Burlington, VT
- November 2017 | Sag Harbor Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference | Sag Harbor, NY
- September 2017 | Rutgers-New Brunswick Writers’ Conference | Somerset, NJ