HeyJaredCollective Lit
An almost-weekly meditation on life or creative writing. Home of Sit & Write, a drop-in coworking group for creative writers.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 12
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 10, 2026
Latest issues
Sit & Write #344 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Greetings, friends,I’m back from my sister’s wedding. We saw all the horrors and delights Vegas has to offer: buffets, shows, a 60lb gold nugget, Elvis impersonators (delights), performers confined to painted circles, children at middle-of-the-night concerts without ear protection, drunken homophobes, elderly gambling addicts (horrors). It was painful and surreal to return home to just one dog, but a relief nonetheless. SIT & WRITEWe’re back with another round of co-writing this Saturday. If you
Sit & Write #343 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Greetings, friends,I’ll keep this one brief, as I’m typing from tens of thousands of feet in the air and the wifi is… not great up here.I’ll be out this weekend, but Sit & Write carries on with support from our lovely little community. In the meantime, if you’re local to Philly, may I suggest you check out tonight’s Blue Stoop happy hour at the Pen & Pencil from 5-7pm?SIT & WRITEWe’re back with another round of co-writing this Saturday. If you’re new, please read the <a h
In the aftermath (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Friends,We had an unexpected death in the family on Tuesday. Our big dog, Frankie, experienced some kind of cardiac emergency around 4pm, and the emergency vet was unable to save him. It came on out of nowhere, and it was over very quickly. I’m still reeling from the shock of it. On Sunday, he’d been totally normal. We’d had some friends over for a potluck and he’d been walking in circles around the room, getting pets from everyone along the way. Near the end, when everyone was standing around i
Re: Born Confused (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Greetings, friends:Zach and I spent much of our summer vacation listening to the audiobook of Born Confused, a young adult novel by Tanuja Desai Hidier I’d cherished back when I was marginally closer to the target audience1. Presumably written for teenage South Asian straight girls, the book has stayed with me, who is none of those things, for years. The audiobook is a whopping 15 hours long, giving me pl
Eshani Surya x Collective Lit (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Greetings, friends!This week I’m excited to share the fourth (and final?) in a series of conversations with writer friends. This brief chat with Eshani Surya played out gradually via email over 6 months, which is a bit funny because we were having an array of separate simultaneous conversations about Blue Stoop, where Eshani serves as our board’s governance committee. I’ve heard Eshani speak at length with others about her debut novel, Ravishing, and the journey to its publication, so it was a t
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.