Author Talk with Jenny Bartoy Editor of "No Contact"
Sun, Aug 16
|Virtual Event
Join us as Jenny Bartoy discusses her anthology on family estrangement which features thirty- two writers with their first person accounts. Together Estranged is honored to be named an Organization Resource in the book.
Time & Location
Aug 16, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Virtual Event
About the event
Join us as Jenny Bartoy, Editor of No Contact - Writers on Estrangement and an EAC herself, shares with our community.
No Contact, an anthology about family estrangement, is out now with Catapult. Together Estranged is honored to be named as a Organization Resource in the book.
No Contact is a poignant and galvanizing anthology that illuminates the realities and nuances of family estrangement, with pieces by Stephanie Foo, Nick Flynn, Domenica Ruta, Deesha Philyaw, Cheryl Strayed, and others. The book has been called "a landmark work" by Ocean Vuong and "grippingly vulnerable" by Publishers Weekly. Families fall apart and individuals cut ties for myriad reasons—abuse, politics, mental illness, and addiction, among others—and reunification often is not in the cards. Through thirty-two intimate, first-person accounts, No Contact counters the prevalent trope of reconciliation as a happy ending, focusing instead on the complex grief, healing, and authenticity found in the rupture from family.