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Cults and the Culting of America Emily in Your Phone on Substack : “A Former #TradWife on Dismantling the Patriarchy” Cults to Consciousness : 8 Women from 8 Cults Compare Notes Teen Vogue : How Many Trad Wives Spread Christian Nationalism and Helped Elect Donald Trump Brevity Blog : Are Memoirs “Impossible to Sell”? Only If Narrowly Defined Sarah McDugal | Wilderness to WILD Toronto Star : I know first-hand the dangers of the ‘tradwife’ movement Dame Magazine : Why Some of Us Have to Secretly Vote for Kamala Ramona Magazine : “Exposing the Dark Truth Behind #TradWife Culture” Newstalk : “How a trad wife escaped a Christian cult just in time” Brevity Blog : “From Blog to Book: How the Digital World Can Launch a Writer” The Independent UK : “How I escaped ‘trad wife’ hell” Ramona Magazine : “BOOK REVIEW: A Well Trained Wife by Tia Levings” Beyond BJU : Exposing Fundamentalism Broadstreet Review : A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy, by Tia Levings Sojourners : “How Tia Levings Quit Being A ‘Well-Trained Wife'” The Dismantling Doctrine Podcast In Pursuit of Clean Countertops on Substack : “An Ex-Trad Wife On What the Insta Photos Don’t Show” The Washington Post : “A harrowing memoir that tradwife fans need to read” Baptist News Global : “Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Tia Levings” Over the Influence on Substack : “TRADWIFE 2024: A glimpse into a Trump-Vance future” Culture Study on Substack : “A Former Trad Wife on What It Actually Takes To Leave” Publisher’s Weekly : Writers to Watch Preacher Boys on Substack : “Tia Leving’s Harrowing Escape From the Christian Patriarchy” New York Post : “Wife reveals dark underbelly of being in a deeply conservative Christian marriage” Audible Blog : Editors Select: August 2024 In Conversation with Frank Schaeffer The Click : A Former ‘Well-Trained Wife’ Describes her Escape from Violent, Christian Patriarchy Under the Influence with Jo Piazza Prey vs Predator The Only One In The Room Mormon Stories The Revelation Project The Rainy Day Collective Speaking Up with Andrew Pledger Unchurchable with Kit Kennedy My memoir, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy, releases with St. Martin’s Press on August 6th, 2024. You can find my work on religious trauma and church-sanctioned abuse here: I also have a religious horror novel underway and a romantic comedy (albeit with some darker religious overtones) screenplay in progress. My fiction favors magical realism and contemporary fantasy, with sub-genre dashes of romance, horror, and sci-fi. I like stories that trigger wonder and curiosity; the strange, unusual, and nuanced. I gravitate to female protagonists who challenge the paradigm and discover their agency, assertiveness, and power. I am also the co-author of Plotting Your Novel with The Plot Clock, with Joyce Sweeney and Jamie Morris. Our forward was written by Ryan G. Van Cleave. My short story, Tertullian’s Law, placed third in the 2018 Short Story Project’s contest. It’s about an expectant mother in a state that grants personhood at conception and protects the child’s rights over those of their mother. Under another title and further developed, it was a 2020 finalist in the Cinematic Short Story Contest. If you’re looking for examples of my freelance work, my resume and work samples are available on request. Check me out on LinkedIn. Subscribe to The Anti-Fundamentalist My Work
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