Writing (List) | Natalie Serianni

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Writing

Parenting Personal Essays

Parenting in midlife is a Nonstop Nostalgia Trip, Scary Mommy | November 2024

An Ode to My Mom - And Bed, Bath, and Beyond, December 2024 | Jenny Magazine

Caring for my Dad and Young Kids has Taken a Toll on my Health, Scary Mommy | June 2024

I No Longer Worry About Packing My Kids a Healthy Lunch | September 2023

Controlling What I Ate Was How I Tried to Control the Messiness of Midlife, Grown&Flown | June 2023

HuffPost: After My Mom's Death, I Developed A Seemingly Innocent Habit. Then It Spiraled Out Of Control, HuffPost | November 2022

Best Community-Building Ideas from the 70s, ParentMap | September 2022

I Stopped Dying My Gray Hair, Insider | September 2022

We Teach Our Kids It's Ok to be Brave + Scared. We Need That Lesson, Too, MotherUntitled | June 2022

How I Live with Mom Anxiety - and Joy - Side by Side, MotherUntitled | April 2022

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I Couldn't Let My Daughter Get Bangs, Moms Don't Have Time to Grieve | March 2022

Free to Next Owner, Filter Free Parents | January 2022

Back-to-School Jitters: From Remote Learning to Regular School| ParentMap | August 2021

Why I’m Giving My Kids a Seventies Summer this Year, ParentMap | June 2021

My Daughter Has Actually Thrived with Distance Learning, MSN and SheKnows | April 2021

Twenty years after my mother’s death, I still can’t make her breakfast casserole, Motherwell |
March 15, 2021

When The Bus Doesn’t Show, Sammiches and Psych Meds | March 2020

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Motherless Mothers Feel it All, Ruminate Magazine | June 2019

Fall’s Coming, Lionesse | September 2018

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Life’s Picture’s, Guest Blog Post | October 2018

And Family Makes Four: Surviving Your First Year with Your Second Child, ParentMap | June 2017

Creative NonFiction

The New York Times Tiny Love Story, “Don’t Dare Try the Plain Cream Cheese” | June 2024

Putting Things Away, Barely South Review | December 2023

The MotherLove Project | March 2023

My Mother’s Manhattan, Mutha Magazine | March 2022

Little Blue Engine, The Keepthings | October 2021

Well Played, The Manifest-Station | April 2020

The Craft of Writing

Writing Success Won’t Fix a Damn Thing, The Brevity Blog | January 2025

Don’t Ever Tell me What to Do, The Brevity Blog | July 2023

For Example… Natalie Serianni on Finding Focus in the Author Bio | Kelly Ann Jacobson | June 7, 2023

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Interviews

A conversation with Amanda Montei: Consent, Connection, and Care for Literary Mama | November 2023

Where I’m From, With Alyson Shelton | July 2023

Crosscut, How Seattle Parents are Coping with Mental Health Challenges | October 2022

Care.com, Parent Check: Why Are You Really Posting that Photo of Your Kid on Social Media? | July 2022

A Conversation with Jennifer Fliss, for Whale Road Review | June 2022

National Geographic: When Everyday is Take Your Kids to Work Day | April 2021

A Conversation with Sarah Cannon, Literary Mama | March 2020

Podcasts & Media

The Grief Trails Podcast with Amanda Kernahan, “The Magical Mystery Tour of Grief" | January 2024

The Body Myth Podcast with Ronit Plank, “Coming Back to your Body” | May 2022

Evening Magazine | February 2022

Anthologies

Waiting | Forthcoming 2026

The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink, “Subtle Shifts”

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