Lacey N. Dunham (she/her)

lol no worries we’re all moving fast. DM an email address and I can send you info when I’m back in the office next week. (I think I only have your City Paper address.)

AJB is poetry only so I can’t help you there, alas.

Very cool! I work with Alice James Books, a small indie poetry press, so HMU if you’re interested in any of our forthcoming authors. www.alicejamesbooks.org

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

Only tiptoeing back onto socials to say that @necessaryfiction.com is still open to subs for our summer flash fiction series! Details, etc. etc. 👇🏼

This is important, re self-awareness about limitations of scope and reach. Even re book reviews. I know if I post about the WaPo review I was supposed to turn in I'll get well-meaning offers but the goal will be to place it somewhere with a similar audience. Working on reach is really important.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

granular, practical, well organized info here:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Submissions to our annual summer flash fiction series are now open!

I’m writing my second book. My brain is a jumble of information and details and I don’t need the distraction of this place. I’m taking a Bluesky break until 2026. See you all in the new year.

Congratulations!

What sacrificial offerings do I need to make to the writing gods for second novels?

There never seems to be a good time for anything online lately so I'm just going to throw this out here now:

I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.

Ooh okay here’s the link to the whole thing! Looking forward to reading on my next writing break!

Okay but wait—were my friends and I little psychopaths because our verses weren’t these… the one we said was “stab a knife in your back, let the blood run down…” 😬

A lot of success in writing is getting okay with receiving feedback, knowing which notes you have to take, and figuring out ways to be diplomatic about the ones you don't. Revision is one part writing skill, one part interpersonal shit.

Our editors share some of the books that captured our attention this year. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/reco...

Celebrating 3 months of THE BELLES officially being in the world!! 🎉🎉

Only 4 spots left for this class! I likely won't be able to offer this again until next fall, so jump on this one while you can.

Josh!! Thank you! "Delightfully dark" is the perfect description of what I was aiming for. 🖤☺️

I’m thrilled my southern gothic murder mystery THE BELLES is a Best Books of 2025 at Library Journal!! 🥳📚💖
@libraryjournal.bsky.social

I’m thrilled my southern gothic murder mystery THE BELLES is a Best Books of 2025 at Library Journal!! 🥳📚💖
@libraryjournal.bsky.social

Book Publishing 101 - The Writer's Center This class pulls back the curtain on the ins and outs of publishing by walking participants through the component parts of the publishing industry. From the role of literary agents to the dreaded quer...

One of my favorite classes to teach, one of my most popular classes with students. I’ll stuff your brain so full of info, you’ll feel like you ate a million brain burritos. writer.org/event/book-p...

Reminder! "Best Of" lists are tied to publicity and marketing budgets, who is able to hire publicists, what books made it to the top of a TBR stack *thousands* of arcs tall, and the shrinking # of outlets still doing book coverage.
Talk about your favorite books!
They likely weren't read. ❤️📚

I love this energy! Thank you for sharing. We ARE the best books of 2025. 💜

I’m gonna start a newspaper and/or magazine just so I can make a “best books of 2025” list and put my own damn book on there

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Need a gift for someone who's read everything?

Check out LitHub's roundup of 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!

I'm glad to have contributed a handful of reviews of books I loved this year. Thanks @miriamgershow.bsky.social for putting it together.

lithub.com/100-notable-...

100 Notable Small Press Books — Reviewer Interest Form

The 100 Notable Small Press Books 2025 list is live! In 2026, I’ll be taking over the project from the amazing @miriamgershow.bsky.social

Want to be a reviewer?

Fill out the form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tell me your debut novel came out this year without telling me your debut novel came out this year.

I’m choosing to root for the underdogs 🙃

Okay, but are you a Bruins fan or do you have taste?