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Sarah Menkedick is a freelance writer and the founder of Vela. Her upcoming book is Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm.\n\n \u201cI\u2019d been rejected a ton of times\u2014I had that 400-page thing that never became a book. So there were plenty of epic rejections that felt catastrophic. And I\u2019d sort of arrived at this point where I was like: I\u2019m living in my parents' cabin, and I\u2019m pregnant, so whatever. Fuck it. I\u2019m gonna write whatever I want to write.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp and Blue Apron for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@sarahmenkedick\nsarahmenkedick.com\nMenkedick on Longform\n[00:15] The Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh\n[01:00] Aaron and the Donut Dude\n[01:15] Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm (Pantheon \u2022 2017)\n[01:15] Vela\n[02:15] "Why don\u2019t people take writing about motherhood seriously? Because women do it" (Los Angeles Times \u2022 Apr 2017)\n[07:45] "A Wilderness of Waiting" (Vela \u2022 Feb 2015)\n[09:15] "Good Pilgrims" (Harper\u2019s \u2022 Jul 2014)\n[17:30] "Living on the Hyphen" (Oxford American \u2022 Oct 2014)\n[19:30] "Sarah Menkedick\u2019s Four Books on Early Motherhood" (Vela \u2022 Aug 2015)\n[22:30] "Written by Women" (Vela \u2022 Sep 2011)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices