JENNIFER N. SHANNON
author + photographer + curator

Hello my people, I'm writing this blog because I'm starting a new venture with my friend, Yvette, titled Creative Communion. This is a...

Here is the conversation I had with Lizzie Brown, the cover artist for ELEVATE (the Yellow Arrow Journal issue that I am a guest editor for)

20 years ago I self-published my first book, Silent Teardrops. I was 25 and just wanted to see my words in print. I also wanted to hear...

I'm honored to share that I am the guest editor for Yellow Arrow Journal's upcoming issue. The theme, chosen by yours truly, is Elevate.

What do you do when you're in the mood but not really? Honestly, I'm in the mood a little bit as I write this but then again, not all the...

Motherhood is one of the most difficult roles I've had. It's the one thing I've done that requires that I am completely honest, patient...

Rest & Intuition is about leaving my job, the book Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey and how my intuition is pushing me forward.

The tears were already welling in my eyes as I handed the lady my prescription. And it only took seconds for them to come flowing before...

I've been asking a lot of questions lately, some that are easily answered and others that require me to do some searching. This week I've...

How I measure success compared to how someone else looks at it is likely different. For me money isn't the sole determinant of success...

Space & Mothering is about how finding time to write and the act of writing itself is tied to Jennifer's new life of being a mother.

This blog shares insights from a new first time mom about being a mother, a writer and everything in between.

12 months of writing is the intro blog for the next year of exploration for Jennifer N. Shannon aka writerjns.

There are many words I can use to describe 2021—amazing, transitional, joyful, emotional, chaotic, beautiful—but the word that has been a...

Happy New Year! Take a look at this live and in-person DreamLiving video that BeachBoyFresh and I created. It shares an update for 2021...

On December 31, 2019, I posted below on my FaceBook Author Page: Almost 365 days later, I reflected on this post and how my life has...

It has been eight months of being unemployed, quarantined and living in a country with social unrest. Most people are mentally exhausted....

We are nine months into 2020 and for me it has had moments of bliss and headaches. I'm sure some of you feel the same way. Below is a...

These blogs that I've written over the past few months (this is number 14) are different from my blogs of years before. Now my approach...

Sometimes I can't believe that we are half way through 2020. I won't list all of the craziness that has happened to me but it's been a...