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EMILY J. SMITH
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EMILY J. SMITH
About
Nothing Serious
Writing
Workshop
Contact
About
Nothing Serious
Writing
Workshop
Contact

 Essays

The Art of Being Completely Alone - Medium Magazine, "Great Escape" Edition

I Need More Time: Weighing the Option of Egg Freezing - Catapult

Fitting In - The Rumpus

How I Learned to Write by Emailing My Father - LitHub

How To Parent When You’re Not One, But In Love With Someone Who Is - Romper

Finding Love When You’re Forty and Happily Single - Catapult

Whether or not you decide to have kids, congratulations is in order - The Washington Post

The Unexpected Gift of Couch Arrest - Curbed

I Want a Partner Who Expands My World, Not Fits Into It - Medium Feature

Breaking Up With Online Dating: It was Mutual - Medium Feature

I also publish essays frequently on my Substack

Fiction

Voiceless - Hobart (Longform's Fiction Pick of the Week, 2/22/18)

Warning Signs - Motherboard (Vice)

Night Cap - Entropy Mag

First Date - Five:2:One

Deep Cuts

#MeToo and the The Myth of Millennial Fragility - Medium Feature

The Choice of Childlessness - Medium Feature

Online Dating Isn’t Going Away, But Something Needs to Change - Medium Feature

Silencing the Noise to Hear My Own Voice - Medium Feature

Crystal Powers: My Date With A Googler - The Bold Italic

New York Killed My Dating Life And I Couldn't Be Happier - Salon

Breaking up with my type: How I learned to Stop worrying and loath the men I once desired - Salon

Quarantine Has Forced Me to Confront How Little I Care About Myself - Medium Feature

Social Media Triggers My Anorexic Demons - The Establishment