Lisa Ampleman

Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for this chat with christopher oscar peña about my ‘True Story: A Trilogy’ @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and chris‘s ‘Three Plays’ @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social — & thank you @markarmstrong4.bsky.social @scavengerjunta.bsky.social @lisaampleman.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Generic Husband Generic Husband presents a queer take on an old, beloved, and troublesome subject: the husband. While the “generic husband” of the cultural imagination h...

"I dare you to read this book and not fall a little in love with all these husbands, generic, specific, optimistic, self-taught, and otherwise.”—Nancy Reddy

Happy #pubday to Rebecca Hazelton's witty new collection,"Generic Husband." https://bit.ly/generichusband

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Terminal Surreal launch . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Friends of Martha Silano read from her posthumous collection, Terminal Surreal, newly released by Acre Books

Please join us as we celebrate the publication of @marthasilano.bsky.social's posthumous collection. Friends and admirers will read via Zoom from TERMINAL SURREAL Tues, Sept 2, at 8 p.m. Register at tinyurl.com/b4vvc6ju. Hosted by Acre's #Poetry Editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social. 📚🎉💜

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We are once again OPEN for submissions to both our print journal and miCRo! We strongly encourage you to submit to the print journal within the next day or so, as we tend to reach our cap just days after opening up.

Keep those August #prose submissions coming! 📚🖊️

A little secret is that you can’t know who buys (and doesn’t buy) your book because of your online presence.

But being kind probably helps.

Delighted to see Acre #poet @cdeskilson.bsky.social's SCREAM QUEEN among the recommended reads for this year's @sealeychallenge.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #booksky

I have work in the latest issue of @kenyonreview.bsky.social! It's an amazing issue--check it out on their site (behind a sign-in):

kenyonreview.org/piece/from-s...

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New title, same great editor! To better reflect all she does for CR, Assistant Managing Editor @bess-winter.bsky.social is now our Web and Media Editor!

White words on a gray background: "On Copyediting. Overall, in my phrasing of queries, I emphasize collaboration. I learn all the time from writers' responses to our edits." There is a black quote mark before the quote, the CR logo in white, and an image of a torn book page at the bottom

The next installment of our series on copyediting from @lisaampleman.bsky.social, this time on our practices and how we make choices as we edit: the Five C's, campfires, and more. Link in first comment.

I think Barbara Ehrenreich might have written about the term in the context of the breast cancer culture?

Defiant Acts Drawing on the author’s experiences, this debut novel follows an interracial blended family living in Chicago in the 1990s.   James Stewart III’s powerful debut novel documents the life of a working-c...

Congrats to @thejs3.bsky.social on the publication of DEFIANT ACTS! “Chicago is a forge for literary realism. Just for starters, Dreiser, Farrell, Brooks, Algren, Wright—a fierce tradition that James Stewart III extends with his debut #novel.” (Stuart Dybek) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for saying YES to my work again. Thanks to my friend @mfitejohnson.bsky.social whose own abcedarians inspired me. Thanks to @lisaampleman.bsky.social + to @ericadawsonpoet.bsky.social for their support of this poem. It's in my mms ORDINARY SPLENDOR
#grateful

I was happy to review a great novel in this folio. Thanks @lisaampleman.bsky.social for the opportunity. I am loving @jscheng.bsky.social ‘s craft essay here and looking forward to reading the others.

"Let Me Whisper in Your Ear: A Craft Essay" by Shara Lessley Shara Lessley on the craft of writing about family secrets in literary nonfiction

I'm no longer letting fear, shame, or power holders police my writing. Thanks @lisaampleman.bsky.social at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for the invitation to say something about creative #nonfiction & disclosure. Craft #essay includes models & reading list. 💜
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

Notes from the Redesign Studio graphic, with a sliced image of the new miCRo page.

SNEAK PREVIEW! We're excited to unveil parts of the new look you'll be seeing very soon as part of our website redesign! Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter walks us through those choices in another installment of NOTES FROM THE (RE)DESIGN STUDIO. Link in comments.

The debut of our new web series on copyediting! Our managing editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social explains the philosophy behind our choices as copyeditors. Spoiler: We strive to keep all changes in the writer’s style and to have an ethos of collaboration rather than criticism. Link in thread.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Course on Describing your WIP Get ideas on how to write a strong description of your poetry manuscript!

Going to offer another session on describing your poetry work-in-progress soon! Visit here to find out more and express interest:

lisaampleman.com/course-on-de...

When the news gets depressing, there's only one cure.

#pets #cute #guineapigcore #guineapig

a hamster is standing on its hind legs and looking at the camera . ALT: a hamster is standing on its hind legs and looking at the camera .

So bad about posting here.

Thank you so much @cincinnatireview.bsky.social and @lisaampleman.bsky.social for sharing this with your readers. We need art as much as ever--this is about the littlest artist I know 💕

It was a very meta moment (just caught up), considering.

Spoiler!! 😜

Can't wait to read it!

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It's that time once again, shoppers! We're OPEN for your miCRo submissions. Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.

always a good day to buy your next read from an independent bookstore or borrow it from the library

Remembering Mark Phillips Remembering Mark Alfred Phillips, our great-uncle who was estranged from the family

For the past 18 months or so, my sister Anna & I have been looking into the life of our great-uncle Mark Phillips, who was estranged from the family starting in the 1990s but was dearly loved by our mother. We wanted to share what we've learned with everyone:

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