Vonetta Young

Hey guys! Taking a break from my residency to say I'm shutting down my Twitter. I won't delete my account, but I won't be here anymore because I don't want to participate in an "everything app." Find me on Insta with the same handle! Love you all!

Alright, folks, I’m going dark for the rest of July so I can focus at my writing residency. Here’s to the new memoir I’ll have on the other side of it!

@jodimsavage @kwelijournal Wow! You’re going to be great!!

I’m so honored to be giving the morning keynote tomorrow at @kwelijournal’s #KweliLitFest23 at my alma mater #BarnardCollege! Join us!

@tlpavlich Perfect!! Thank you!!

@tlpavlich This is brilliant! What time zone is listed on the first tab?

@WordPerv Congratulations!!!

Just drank the other half of this bottle in honor of what I did today, so there’s that. Now I’m going to take a shower and go to bed because talking to the dead and taking care of a sick toddler while traveling is as wild as it sounds. Night night!

Here’s to breaking all the chains! Happy day of independence to those untethering from fears!

@HSmithWrites Have you ever been in a…Turkish prison? Best. Movie. EVER.

@rokwon I’ll take an invite, if you have any more, please! 🥺

Someone please send me an invite to that other app since I can’t be bothered to interpret what all is going on on this site, please!!!!

Since everything’s breaking here, I will once again plug that I’m an independent editor and work with writers on creative projects, including book-length manuscripts! I’ll be intro’ing some new services very soon and my summer books are open right now! rebeccarubenstein.com/editing-servic…

The news has been too much for me lately, so I'm looking forward to my own stories. Heading to NC next week to visit my father's ashes in the mountains & rewrite my past. Putting "freedom" all up & thru Independence Day.

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

I hear authors ask, “Why doesn’t the agent read the whole ms before deciding? Why only 10 pages?” Because TRUST. Let me explain (🧵):

@ShelbyLRiley Thank you!

Guys! I got new headshots! And a new website! Meet my new author photo & my new portfolio site that covers all of my work, from writing to work-work: vonetta.co. So exciting!

@ashakijackson Thank you, lady!

@LoebDavon @WVUPRESS Congratulations!!!!

@lakshgiri Thank you!!

@VonettaWrites Absolutely love this!