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writingco-lab.bsky.social @writingco-lab.bsky.social · 5d

New sessions of Ungodly Hour Writing Clubs start Monday! East Coast with @saralippmann.bsky.social ! West Coast with @briangresko.bsky.social ! Pick your poison! Or double down! Clubs are free, with donations supporting our scholarship fund www.writingco-lab.com/classes

Ungodly Hour
Writing Club
ONLINE WORKSHOPS
& CRAFT CLASSES
WRITING
COLAB
East Coast Edition
silent write-in with Sara Lippmann, all donations go to our scholarship fund
Free, or
Suggested Donation
Oct 13 to 24th
5:30-7am Eastern

Ungodly Hour
Writing Club
ONLINE WORKSHOPS
& CRAFT CLASSES
WRITING
COLAB
West Coast Edition
silent write-in with Brian Gresko, all donations go to our scholarship fund
Free, or
Suggested Donation
Oct 13 to Nov 7th
5-7am PT / 8-10am ET

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to celebrating wonderful @writesloud.bsky.social debut with this killer cast of characters:

Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 7d

NY friends, come hang November 16th!

@camilleuadams.bsky.social @michelleghenry.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social

A flyer for a street side lit reading, featuring Camille U. Adams, Michelle Guerrero Henry, Aubrey Hirsch, Rax King, Sara Lippmann, Kate Tooley, and me! It shows the covers of our books and includes info about the reading: November 16 at 2pm at "Store Front West" (367 E 10th St, NY NY 10009)

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 6d

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ALT: a pile of colorful gummy bears with a purple cartoon character standing in the middle

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 6d

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 6d

Join us!

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 6d

if you always wanted to know what it’s like to write in the dim glow of dawn alongside other ungodly masochists here’s your chance (free, no frills, donations support @writingco-lab.bksky.social) www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...

East Coast Ungodly Writing Club early morning weekday write-in with Sara Lippmann
5:30-7:00 am EST, October 13th-24th
writingco-lab.com/classes

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 10d

You + Rita= TLF 🔥💗

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 10d

thank you, Dan! This whole issue is bananas! Can’t wait to read it all

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 10d

HOLY COW. What an issue:

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 13d

We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.

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October 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 11d

life, lately:

Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 13d

This is everything I mean when I talk about the breathless one paragraph flash. Form, in this case, perfectly serves content. That rush of despair / anxiety / bewilderment that is life today by @saralippmann.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute: ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

shelter in place — Ghost Parachute

Maybe it’s the rising sirens, maybe it’s the sudden soak, a complete wet heat through the cotton sack I’ve taken to wearing like a body flung overboard because this is who I am now, this is who I’ve b...

ghostparachute.com

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 11d

thank you, Patricia! Excited to be issue mates. Looking forward to reading your wonderful work—and everyone’s soon.

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 11d

thank you, Kathy! I’m away with this week but I look forward to reading your piece—and the whole issue—when I return.

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you so much for including me in such marvelous company! Congrats on your milestone anniversary! Cannot wait to return home from travels and read the entire issue of GHOST PARACHUTE. 🙏💗

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 20d

Come hanggggg

Chatting up @alinaetc.bsky.social @adrianf.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social and more! ❤️

New tour dates in Arlington VA, DC, online. NYC, Connecticut, and Takoma Park!

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Epiphany Lit Journal @epiphanylit.bsky.social · 28d

Applications are OPEN for our 2026 Fresh Voices Fellowship!

FV supports one emerging writers of color who do not have an advanced writing degree. Winner receives:

- $2000 & publication
- A year-long editorial fellowship at Epiphany

Submit below. Apps close 11/1!

epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

Applications are Open for the 2026 Fresh Voices Fellowship! — Epiphany Magazine

This is a year-long fellowship that supports one emerging writers of color who do not have an advanced writing degree. Fellows receive: A $2000 stipend A year-long editorial fellowship at ...

epiphanyzine.com

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · Sep 12

Congrats on PARDON ME FOR [email protected]

Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · Sep 11

Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites

Pardon Me for Moonwalking. Red cover with black headphones and blurb by Sara Lippmann, reading, "Pardon Me for Moonwalking is an ode to the ensnared and alone, the lost and the lonely. Transient, searching characters long to 'shed life like an old patchwork coat and walk away to a bright-lit studio apt with no closets and one brick wall as if on stage at an intimate club.' With restraint, razor-sharp precision and astute insight, Patricia Q. Bidar delivers spiky story after deeply human tale. This debut collection is a terrific achievement."

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Present Tense
by Todd Dillard

My father’s telling me about his dog,
how it fell into a well
when they were walking down a wooded path.
His dog ran across some rotted planks,
the planks splintered, “And whoosh!”
my father says. “No more dog.”
I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M.
“I’m not finished,” he says.
He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket,
how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down,
and yelled for the dog to get in.
“But all I pulled up was more barking.”
“Dad,” I say. “This never happened.”
He says he can’t remember
how long he tried to get the dog
to shimmy into the bucket.
Just that at some point
when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“
as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“
he decided to give up.
“Dad,” I say. “It’s late.
I’m tired. And you’re dead.”
“Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!”
My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt
and pouring the dirt into the well.
And I know what he’s getting at, I know
he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket
he filled the well and
the dog jumped out. He’s going to say
something about how the dog
led him home through the dark.
I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.
“Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?”
I keep lowering the bucket
but all I ever pull up are leaves.
Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congrats, Taylor! Can’t wait to read this 🔥

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W

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writingco-lab.bsky.social @writingco-lab.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · Aug 25

Outlook Springs Issue 9: The Unauthorized Coloring Book has arrived! Fantastic fiction, heart-cartographic essays, poemy poems, and uncolored images await you inside!

Support small presses and writers. Order yours today!

Issue 9

Visit the post for more.

www.outlooksprings.com

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hey, NY writers! @girlswritenow.bsky.social is recruiting great mentors for their Fall Journeys (girlswritenow.org/fall25-journeys) The deadline is 8/31. The commitment is 3 hours a month for 3 months. Change the trajectory of a young writer's life and reap the benefits of the amazing GWN community!

Journeys | Girls Write Now

Girls Write Now Writing Build skills though courses that focus on any genre, media, leadership, activism, college, career, and more.

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Epiphany Lit Journal @epiphanylit.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Breakout! Prize are Julia Oschwald Tilton in prose, and Alice Liang in poetry!

Thank you to this year’s prize judges: Hilary Leichter (prose) and Victoria Chang (poetry)!

epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

2025 Breakout! Writers Prize Winners — Epiphany

Winners of the 2025 Breakout! Writers Prize: Julia Oschwald Tilton in prose, and Alice Liang in poetry

epiphanyzine.com

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · Aug 12

Peter Orner fans unite! THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST’S DAUGHTER is out today and — of course — it’s outstanding. My review www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-gos...

The Gossip Columnist's Daughter

Peter Orner returns to his beloved Chicago with a riveting, rule-breaking, genre-bending, and multi-textured new novel of generational ache, The Gossip Columnist's Daughter.

www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · Aug 5

“This cradling, I knew, was the most intimate moment I would ever share with a woman who I never understood, and who never understood me.” Thanks for this. 🙏

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