The Manifest Station is a literary safe space for essays about the complicated, beautiful, and hard parts of being alive.
Since 2011, we have published personal writing about grief, healing, courage, family, relationships, and the full spectrum of being human. Our contributors are not celebrities. They are people who have lived something and found the words for it.
If you have ever read a sentence and thought “that’s exactly it” — this is where those sentences live.
Welcome to the site.
We hope you find what you are looking for.
If you don’t, we hope you write it
and submit it to us, posthaste.
The Editors
Angela M Giles is the curator and editor of The Manifest Station. She believes in the power of language, the importance of amplifying underheard voices, and the impact one sentence can have on a life. Angela is the person who decides what belongs here.
Wendy Cort is the assistant editor. She brings order, precision, and care to every piece that moves through the site.
Our History
The Manifest Station was founded in 2011 by Jennifer Pastiloff as a place where people could come to have hard conversations about being human. What began as one writer’s vision has grown into a literary community. Today the site is curated and edited by Angela M Giles, who has carried that founding spirit forward.
What We Publish
- Healing and Grief — our two largest and most-read verticals
- Inspiration and Courage — essays about showing up when it’s hard
- Family and Relationships — the full complexity of the people we love
- Activism — writing that takes a position and means it