Hannah Sward

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Latest installment of Summer of Men.

“Threesomes and Jealousy”

I remember the way his eyes lingered on her boobs, the way they overflowed out of her magenta bikini top, the full moon lighting the night. I wanted the moon to go away, for it to be dark…

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Bravo!!!

I’ve been wondering the same especially on the heels of returning from a conference on exploitation in DC. You are certainly smart enough to write about it!!!!!

Hannah Sward (@summerofmen) I began Summer of Men back in 2021. At the time I was purely writing it for myself. Keeping notes, a log of encounters, never with any intention of sharing it publicly. As expected, 3 weeks in, I h...

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Thank you Andrea for what you gave. Thank you for what you continue to give.

“Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” ~ Andrea Gibson

Inhumane. My god.

Thank you for reposting 🙏🏽

Summer of Men | Hannah Sward | Substack After 6 years of no sex, a 50-year-old single woman loads up the dating apps in search of a reliable summer lover. These are her encounters. Click to read Summer of Men, by Hannah Sward, a Substack pu...

All of a sudden I have 16 paid subscribers. I can’t believe it. So incredibly generous. Thank you to all who involuntarily chose to do so!

Paying it forward by choosing a few Substacks to sign up for a paid subscription.

Big gratitude.
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Hannah Sward on Substack Ummmm. Summer of Men @Hannah Sward has now shot up to #4 in fiction on Substack. I can’t believe it! Thank you to everyone who subscribed, pledged, read, checked it out. In the hours of solitude ...

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Summer of Men: Massage Guy Fuck this Sebastian. I’ll text him for Christ’s sake. If not him there’ll be others. Lots of them. There always are. Even when I don’t think there is, there is.

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Three years today, the greatest of gifts to be by my fathers side as he took his last breath.

And so it was I began this day just as he would have wanted me to. Writing to him. Always with you dear dad and always, I with you.

An excerpt from one of my favorites of my fathers poems.

Bravo!

I can’t believe it. I’m at Skylight Books to sign a couple copies of Strip and they sold out again. Having gone to Skylight for the past 25 years, this is a dream.

One of the things I’ve struggled with as a writer is the question of what is success? How much am I looking to publication for validation? From the external to the internal journey, I loved this conversation with Lisa Cooper Ellison.

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What an honor to talk with @lisacooperellison.bsky.social on her Writing Your Resilience podcast about my memoir, Strip.
If you’ve ever struggled w/ what to reveal, how to structure your story, or how to make peace with your past through writing, this episode is for you.
Listen here: buff.ly/3XcKJz

What an honor to interview Hannah Sward (@summerjar.bsky.social) about her powerful memoir Strip! We covered so much territory from transcription practices and the somatic exercises she used to build powerful sex scenes to how she turned deep trauma into art. Listen here: https://buff.ly/3XcKJzx

Loved being in conversation with you Lisa! A privilege and an honor🙏

Welcome!

How good it feels to get a few solid hours of writing in today. I put the phone in another room. Some days I put it in the trunk of my car so I don’t get distracted. The economy of time.

Congratulations!!!

On my desk where I write…

‘Never lose hope, dear heart. Miracles swell in the invisible.’ - Rumi

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Congratulations Kelly!!!!

Received my forth royalty check today. A modest amount but enough to pay a few bills. Published over two years ago, I like thinking of Strip as the little engine that could. No big bang out of the gate but it continues down the tracks.

PRESSED SENT to my editor!
I think Salt N’ Straw double scoop is in
order📖🍦

Grateful to my publisher for marking my memoir down to .99 until Friday! For those interested in checking it out I never want to have the price be an issue!

Subject matter:

-childhood trauma
-addiction
-stripping
-sex trade
-the road to recovery & back to the written word

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Thank you Janet and to you 100 pages, draft 2, 3rd novel!

20+ years ago I began writing a short story collection. After having taken a side step to go back to college, do meth, drink, get sober and write a memoir, this week I am sending my collection in to my new editor.

Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.

Yes!!