Why subscribe?
Because this a fun, messy, honest, vulnerable, over-sharing holiday card you receive twice a month from your crazy auntie! This! But seriously. If you need more reasons to subscribe, let’s try this:
Because I miss you. I miss connection. I long to connect directly and personally with you, in the writing, in the work, in the love, in the exchange, in the life. I long for it deep in my bones. And social media often makes me feel less connected, even though it reminds me when it’s your birthday…
So let’s just do this, shall we? I need to self-impose writing deadlines to keep up my writing practice. It’s just how I work. I’m finding process way more exciting than any product lately. So let’s meet where it feels good, since pleasure is my word of the year. Twice a month. Because weekly is too much and monthly is for the moon and periods.
Love, Baby Luck
Brittany Ballard is a writer, filmmaker, End-of-Life Doula, and the host of Unsent, a live show and podcast where brave souls get on the mic to share messages they wrote but never sent. She’s currently developing “The Death Doula” TV series, for which she won the 2023 SeriesFest Pitch-a-thon, as well as “Unsent,” a TV series previously supported by OneFifty at Warner Bros. Discovery. She also writes the popular Overflow Substack newsletter and produces the “Britt and Sax” podcast. She won Best Feature Screenplay at Cinecause Fueling Female Filmmakers for her screen adaptation of Daughter’s Keeper. Her Unsent letter to her mom, “Things I Haven’t Told You,” was published in Suspect Press. She won Denver Write Club with her short story, “Chopin.” She wrote, directed, produced and starred in “WOLF” (premiered at Urbanworld and Cinequest) based on her short story, “The Park.” She recently formed the non-profit Three Things with her husband, rapper Old Man Saxon, offering writing, music and performance workshops for older adults to heal their pasts, and for youth to shape their futures. She conducts life review interviews for solo agers, and hosts monthly anti-racist white woman meetings. In her former life, she managed the FILM FORWARD program at Sundance, served as Director of Programming at Urbanworld, served as Programmer at SBIFF, and served as Head of Acquisitions at Newmarket Films.
