Alissa Hattman

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YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

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Rakesfall!! Huge congratulations to @vajra.me 💐

The eight books shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction are in a stack, with a note on top that reads "Prize winner announcement 10.21.25 9 am PDT." The books are North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher; Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins; The City in Glass by Nghi Vo; The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy; The West Passage by Jared Pechaček; Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera; Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston; and Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson.

On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT.

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So excited to talk with James about their new book! Save the date! 🔥

Abstract landscape made of ripped paper.

Landscape II: Learn more about Sumeet Singh's artistic practice that encompasses collage and mixed-media art.

Singh is an organizer of the 'Let ‘Er Rip' project team, a diverse cross-section of contemporary collage that showed in #Portland, Ore.

#Art

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To celebrate the release of the audiobook, audiobooks.com is offering 50% off of SIFT until the end of August!

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SIFT is now available as an audiobook! 🌿🎧🎶

Congratulations to the finalists!

Thank you so much for your generous contribution, TJ, and for all that you do.

If you are interested in featuring Sift in your classroom or book group, please message me and I would be happy to mail you a sample copy of the book.

Announcing the SIFT reader guide portal!

For anyone who is looking to make a way when there seems to be no way. May we find safer roads together.

@the3rdthing.press

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Many thanks to the contributors & editors for their work on the “careful/care-full” collaboration issue of ABOUT PLACE JOURNAL.

Lucie Bonvalet & I offer a fragment from a world we created. We hope you enjoy. 🌱

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A black background with two thin white outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, white text reads: "A beautiful, shiny white coat with a sleek, fluffy tail, and, yes, a fur-less human-like face, sharp-featured, though she could not make out the eyes. — Alissa Hattman, 'The Fox Face' (Issue 12, 2018)”

A white background with two thin black outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, black text reads: "The bones in my hand that healed diagonally. The lie I tell, that I have never broken a bone. What it's like to feel lost inside your body. How hard it is to look. — Tate N. Oquendo, 'We Are Edging Ever Closer to the Moment When the Antichrist Cleaves the World' (Issue 12, 2018)”

A white background with two thin black outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, black text reads: "The reoccurring dream: his blood tasting like the river. — Kayla Eason, 'To Memorize' (Issue 12, 2018)”

A black background with two thin white outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, white text reads: "They adore the monster parts of me. They want to know why-how-what made me like this. I pierce the veil with my fangs. I am their closest to holy. — Caitlyn GD, 'Live Women!' (Issue 12, 2018)”

A white background with two thin black outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, black text reads: "I thought about my mother's womb and I believed the ovaries in our bellies were worms, eating both of us out from the inside. — Rita Hynes, 'Who Is My Mother? What Does She Know?' (Issue 12, 2018)”

this weekend we're reading Shirley's dozenth issue, with 5 daring short stories by Kayla Eason, Caitlyn GD, Rita Hynes, Alissa Hattman, and Tate Oquendo.
Jump into the archive with us at surelymag.com/archive 〰️

Love this review of Gloria Frym's Lies & More Lies by the insightful @alissahattman.bsky.social "Americans, in particular, have reached an all-time low for the category of lies within lies within lies. We’ve mastered the turducken lie, which might be funny if it weren’t so hateful and grotesque. ‼️🙌

Review: Gloria Frym’s Lies & More Lies - SmokeLong Quarterly Review by Alissa Hattman Halfway through Gloria Frym’s prose collection Lies & More Lies [BLAZEVox 2025], I started to jot down every type of lie I saw on the page. Quickly, the list grew long. Each p...

"Frym’s writing evokes the strange, scrambled, alienating feeling of being absorbed by a nation’s corrupt corpus of lies." Alissa Hattman on Gloria Frym's Lies & More Lies. Review at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/review-glori...

Review: Gloria Frym’s Lies & More Lies - SmokeLong Quarterly Review by Alissa Hattman Halfway through Gloria Frym’s prose collection Lies & More Lies [BLAZEVox 2025], I started to jot down every type of lie I saw on the page. Quickly, the list grew long. Each p...

It was an honor to review Gloria Frym’s LIES & MORE LIES for SMOKELONG QUARTERLY. www.smokelong.com/review-glori...

“Do I construct all my memories like barricades? Where is the inside of the barricade? Where is the outside? How do I know on which side to hide and wait for the tank to come?” from Lucie Bonvalet’s “The Empty Snail Shell” in FENCE. fenceportal.org/the-empty-sn...

Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying 'Everyone is welcome here' “There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” argues Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher.

"Despite the district’s ruling, Inama refuses to remove the signs, even if it means risking her job. 'There’s no way I would be able to allow myself to just take it down and roll over to what I feel like they’re asking me to do.'"

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Excited to see SIFT on this list! Thank you @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social & @electricliterature.com 🌺

Thank you, Miranda. I’m looking forward to reading Leafskin!🌿

Glad to hear some good news today! I have been a reader, supporter, and fan of The Rumpus my whole adult life. Thank you, @roxanegay.bsky.social & @debbiemillman.bsky.social ❤️

Sift by Alissa Hattman - CALYX Jan Priddy explores themes of family, resilience, and climate disaster in this novel by Hattman that centers around mother and daughter.

Thank you, @janpriddy.bsky.social for this ✨gorgeous✨ review of SIFT. Calyx is one of my very favorite literary journals! 🌺 www.calyxpress.org/reviews/sift...

“Hattman’s prose in these brief vignettes is lush and evocative, clear as crystal and precious as the view backward into a past that is lost. What comes next is possibility.” 🌿 Thank you to @janpriddy.bsky.social and Calyx for this review of @alissahattman.bsky.social’s gorgeous, timely novel SIFT

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