MINDA HONEY
mindahoney@gmail.com
Minda Honey’s (she/her) essays on politics and relationships have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Oxford American, Teen Vogue, and Longreads.
Her work is featured in “Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger”, “A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South”, and “Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic.”
She is the editor of Black Joy at Reckon — the newsletter has nearly 60K subscribers. She was the director of the BFA in Creative Writing program at Spalding University, a relationship advice columnist for LEO Weekly in Louisville, Kentucky, and founder of the capsule project, TAUNT, an alt-indie publication for Louisville that elevated the voices of the unaccounted during the height of the pandemic and ended in late 2021.
Her debut memoir, THE HEARTBREAK YEARS (Little A, October 2023), is a hilarious and intimate portrait of a Black woman finding who she is and who she wants to be, one bad date at a time.
Minda is represented by Kayla Lightner at Ayesha Pande Literary. She is available for one-on-one consultations and leading workshops on freelancing, networking or writing.
Praise for
The Heartbreak Years
“[Honey’s] candid self-reflection illustrates the depth of her transformation, and her conflicted and at times contradictory desires add a welcome layer of complexity to an already nuanced narrative. . . . Honey’s witty, frank storytelling makes this book compulsively readable. The insightful story of a Black-identified biracial woman’s search for love.”
Kirkus Reviews
“[A] nuanced and engaging narrative of a young woman struggling through love and heartbreak.”
Booklist
“Every few decades, there’s that one book that shapes directly how we all understand the potentially radical, and radically heartbreaking, space between touching and being touched, running to and running away, f’ing shit up and feeling f’ed. Minda Honey has created a momentous piece of art, of course, but most importantly, The Heartbreak Years will teach a generation of us what’s possible when writing through, to, and beneath the pulpy inside of desire and fear.”
Kiese Laymon, bestselling author of Long Division and Heavy
"Minda Honey has written a great memoir for her generation, and for right now. Her memory is so precise, I felt as if I were in the bar or car for these devastatingly honest chapters - as a writer, she's never sentimental or compromised, but searing and truthful and often hilarious in her narratives, seeking realistic love and life and community. She's like a stand-up comic, but one whose prose is laden with insight, literary heroines, and the perfect detail."
Susan Straight, author of Mecca
“If The Heartbreak Years were a person, it’d be the girl you meet in line for the bathroom at the club. Vulnerable, hilarious, there to whisper hard-earned wisdom into your ear while holding back your hair. Minda Honey has written a fierce rallying cry for the single and lovesick, for those who dare to see the hope in being a romantic. The stories in this book are vibrant, tender, self-aware without being jaded, compulsively readable but never easy. When some f’boy has got you down, Honey’s words are an outstretched hand reaching to lift you back up.”
Edgar Gomez, author of High-Risk Homosexual and Alligator Tears
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UPcoming
Events + Workshops
4.2 - 5.7 WEDNESDAYS 6:30P - 8:30P ET
Gateway to Memoir II with International Women’s
Writing Guild (Zoom)
12.8 SUNDAY 6:30P - 8:30P ET
Stop People Pleasing on the Page with Permission to Write (Zoom)
1.8 - 2.19 WEDNESDAYS 6:30P - 8:30P ET
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Gateway to Memoir with International Women’s
Writing Guild (Zoom)
1.26 - 1.16 SUNDAYS 3P - 5P ET
Daddy Dearest: Writing About Our Fathers with Corporeal Writing (Zoom)