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Caitlin Conlon

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Caitlin Conlon is the author of THE SURRENDER THEORY (2022) and BURNING THE GHOST LIGHT (forthcoming in 2025). She has a BA in English and a Creative Writing Certificate from the University At Buffalo; while there, she was chosen for the Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize, and the Arthur Axlerod Memorial Prize for Poetry. She has previously been published with midsummer magazine, Olney Magazine, and Anti-Heroin Chic, among others. She is the co-founder of Unearth Writing Retreats, which hosts virtual and in-person writing retreats for writers of all levels.

You can find her newsletter, Dancing With The Marginalia, on Substack, where she posts bi-weekly essays about books and writing. Everywhere else, she’s @cgcpo
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The Surrender Theory

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I will read anything Leslie Jamison writes. Her prose is excellent, so excellent that I never even care what she’s writing about because I know she’ll make it compelling.

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Great premise, terrific pacing, but the book just fell flat for me. I think the plot suffers a bit from a personality crisis. There is not enough focus on either major plotline to really make the reader feel enough of what's really at s" Read more of this review »
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‘The Moon That Turns You Back’ had an incredible arc, one that unfolded slowly & subtly over the course of its 100-ish pages. These poems are so beautifully penned, almost effortlessly so, and creative with form. Alyan navigates everything from break ...more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
"There are some great story elements in this novel--like her sister's, this story has endured for a reason. However, I couldn't get into it as much as Wurthering Heights or the Austen novels I've read. The scathing lampooning of the patriarchy is grea" Read more of this review »
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"I want to be John Waters when I grow up. John Waters is an irreverent hero to the weird, wayward, anarchic, and all-around non-conformist, and this book only deepens that appreciation of his writing prowess and wit. I opted for the audiobook version " Read more of this review »
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“In retrospect I can see that you gave me very little
and I tried to build an entire future with it.

You must understand, I had never been remembered
like that, before.

With purpose. Without begging for it.

I took what I was offered and ran.”
Caitlin Conlon, The Surrender Theory

“The wet dog of desire jumps into my bed and I let it.
I'll sleep next to anything if it means I won't be alone.”
Caitlin Conlon, The Surrender Theory

“There isn’t much that scares me more than my own heart, a monster of tenderness. I have an irrational fear that I’ll wake to find it perched at the foot of my bed, begging to be torn apart, consumed in the name of compassion. And that’s incredibly terrifying for a few different reasons but mainly because I’d do it. I’ve never needed an excuse to sacrifice myself for love. I’m a martyr for everything soft. I confess to you: I’d bleed for anything if it held me the right way. I confess: I have. I have.”
Caitlin Conlon, The Surrender Theory

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that’s a lie, and you know it.”
John Green

“Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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