Severance Magazine

22/12/2025

Don Anderson, host of Missing Pieces - NPE Life podcast, tells his story to USA Today.

Experts caution those using these services to be careful, as you may not always get what you want from biological relatives.

22/11/2025

An adoptee's experience of discovering, upon reunion with their biological family, that their conception was the result of a a sexual assault

10/11/2025

Time's running out! There's just one week left to send your essay for Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity & The Meaning of Kinship—an anthology about searching for/ encountering unknown close family. Send your original 2000-word-max essays by Nov 16 to eljpublications.submittable.com/submit.

26/10/2025

A new memoir tells a powerful story of a man's search for his father and the lengths he'd go to to uncover the truth

23/10/2025

ICYMI, submissions are still open for Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, & The Meaning of Kinship—an anthology about searching for or encountering unknown close family. Send your original 2000-word essays by Nov. 16. https://eljpublications.submittable.com/submit

19/10/2025

When I was 38, after both parents had died, I found out my mother wasn’t my birthmother. My parents had taken the secret to the grave.

08/10/2025

Check out our interview with Lisa Brenner, who's brought her NPE/DNA surprise story to the big screen.

Actor, producer, screenwriter Lisa Brenner brings her DNA surprise experience and NPE journey to the big screen.

02/10/2025

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02/10/2025

A remarkable new memoir about misattributed parentage (and much more) by Kimberly Warner.

Unfixed: a memoir of love and loss, of healing and learning to live with uncertainty and new realities

20/09/2025

Do you have a story to tell about a family secret or a DNA surprise that led to an encounter with an unknown family member?
I'm editing an anthology to be published by ELJ Editions: Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship is about searching for, learning about, or encountering unknown close family. I'll be considering essays, for example, about learning you have no genetic connection to the person you believed to be your father; you have siblings you never knew about; you have a child about whom you had no knowledge; you discovered in adulthood that you were adopted or donor conceived; or that your ethnicity or religion is not what you believed it to be.
In 2000 words max, tell me about the emotional impact, the complications, and the consequences. Window closes November 16, 2025. Questions? DM me. Here's the link to submit: https://eljpublications.submittable.com/submit