
Before seeking to publish my own writing, I edited and facilitated publishing student publications for The Living Classroom Foundation in Baltimore, MD, Girls on the Move in Boston MA, and Conchita Espinosa Academy in Miami, Fl.
When I earned my MFA from Converse College in 2012, I had already self-published my children's book, Rocko's Big Launch. That same year, one of my former colleagues from Converse started a blog called Why the Writing Works to give us the opportunity to stay connected, keep writing, and discuss the books we read during our time in our MFA program. You can view most of my old post there.
After I transitioned from full-time teaching to writing in March of 2019, I started contributing to a few publications to add to the discussion on skin, hair and beauty. You can find links here to a few of them.
For Midnight & Indigo, I wrote a personal essay about all my childhood scars and how they impacted me. In a larger sense, "Scars" about what we all endure, and how the scars we carry, often make us stronger.
Reported
Prism Reports
https://www.prismreports.org/yolande-clarkjackson
Mashable
https://mashable.com/article/what-is-juneteenth
Personal essays
Huffpost (reported essay)
Winning Writers 2021
AARP's Sisters Newsletter
https://www.sistersletter.com/style/bedtime-beauty-duty
Midnight and Indigo
https://www.midnightandindigo.com/scars/
Articles
Care.com
https://www.care.com/c/author/yolandeclarkjackson/
The Bump
https://www.thebump.com/author/yolande-clark-jackson
The Poetry Center at University of Arizona
https://poetry.arizona.edu/blog/strategies-shape-memories-stories
https://poetry.arizona.edu/blog/ode-nikki-giovanni
The Write Life
https://thewritelife.com/insure-vs-ensure/
Mayvenn.com
https://shop.mayvenn.com/blog/author/yolande/
MIA Magazine
Profile on Author Walter Mosley
https://issuu.com/miamediagrp/docs/mia_20mag_nov2020-final-edited_2bb108bc91fe29
Picture Books
Old Blog Posts
Why the Writing Works
https://whythewritingworks.wordpress.com/tag/denise-duhamel/
https://whythewritingworks.wordpress.com/tag/yolande-clark-jackson/
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