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hey writers! if you haven’t yet enrolled in this year’s SUMMER CAMP online thru Writing Co-Lab — they’re offering a discount this holiday weekend only! tons of classes and panels (i’ll be part of a discussion @ maintaining creativity whilst juggling life) on 7/29). link in bio to register

was AWP only a month ago? thanks to bloom lit for this report about our packed-to-capacity panel addressing debuts after 50! substack.com/@chinsunlee/...

i’m proud to be part of this scholarship committee helping louisiana undergrads—esp underprivileged, BIPOC, & LGBTQIA+ students—pursuing the arts. applications for the 2026-2027 academic year open april 1st. visit tinyurl.com/armaturescholarship to learn more, and please spread the word!

IN ONE WEEK! i love teaching this 2-hour generative class: we’ll review excerpts of imagistic prose, then write from a slideshow of compelling images, finally sharing for feedback. join us!👇

back from #awp2026, where i was gagged to see SO MANY writers at our “debuting after 50” panel w/ melanie faranello, zeeva bukai & nita noveno, moderated by the 🔥 sara lippmann. huge thanks to all who showed up!🙏

i’ll be at #AWP2026 on this panel with 4 other amazing women authors who debuted after 50: we continue to write & have stories to share @ the value—and strategies!—of being persistent. see you in baltimore!

so thrilled my new novel, SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US, has found a home with Creature Publishing!🩸i spilled my guts all over this weird, dark tale of psychological horror that while writing led me to truly unexpected places. i hope readers will likewise feel a delicious gasp of surprise.

hey writers: i’m re-upping this course through writers.com after taking a season off…it’s always been popular so get your spot b4 it fills up. and if you enroll b4 sunday the 18th, you’ll get a discounted rate!

readers! tantor is running a 50% discount holiday promotion on audiobooks, including mine—so if you’ve been curious @ UPCOUNTRY, this northern gothic is all wintry vibes🪾🌨️

50% OFF UpcountryClaire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills—they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives’s family for three g...www.audiobooks.com

delighted to see UPCOUNTRY in this @electricliterature.com roundup of creepy ghoulish books by laura venita green, author of SISTER CREATURES—out now w/ @unnamedpress.bsky.social! link to article in comments

still a few more spots (and days) left—so come and get ‘em! i still think of fall as “back to school,” so if you’ve been itching to dedicate more focus on your writing, perhaps now is the time? (link for details/to register in bio)

if you want to escape from all the things just for a few moments, read this new story by Elizabeth Bull—it’s so weird and lovely and funny and moving. i’d just woken up from a nap when i read it, and felt that dream-world shift into hers… atlengthmag.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

WRITERS! i’m leading an 8-week intermediate-advanced fiction workshop next month—so if you have a novel, stories, or work of autofiction you’d like to propel or revise, ‘tis the season to get serious! 4 days left for early registration, see link in bio💫

such fun chatting with @allysonnoman.bsky.social while she pulled some timely tarot cards!✨✨✨ check out our convo & follow her stack! open.substack.com/pub/allysonn...

PAST PRESENT FUTURE — with Chin-Sun Leeon family, mortality, and trusting the process of not knowingopen.substack.com

looking for edinburgh & glasgow recs: i'll be there end-aug thru end-sept, with a writing rez in between. art, book stores, restaurants, coffee shops, thrifting, flea markets, cemeteries, parks, pubs (peaty scotch!🥃), weird random poke-abouts—throw 'em at me please!🙏

i’ve taught this generative workshop in person & now i’m psyched to lead a virtual version this fall w/ @writingco-lab.bsky.social ! october 18th, 12-2pm ET, $65, enroll here: www.writingco-lab.com/classes/pros...

and if you’re in louisiana like me 📞

if these are your reps, pls call and put pressure on them to vote against this terrible budget bill!👇 (“202) 225-3121

new orleans, here's some info about the “NO KINGS NOLA” march tomorrow- sign up now to join me! (or go to nokings.org to find a protest in your city): www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

No Kings NOLA · Indivisible# No Kings NOLA ### On June 14th (Flag Day)— Trump is throwing himself a military parade for his 79th Birthday, with our tax dollars. As tanks roll down Constitution Avenue in the capitol, there wil...www.mobilize.us

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