Lisa Ampleman
@lisaampleman.bsky.social
Poet (Mom in Space), parent, editor (Cincinnati Review; Acre Books), space nerd.
Update: I'm going to move over to @acrebooks.bsky.social full-time starting in Aug. Sarah Haak and I will be co-executive editors there as Nicola Mason moves into a consulting role after 10 ears founding and running the press. So we're seeking a new managing ed at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social!
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 🙏🏻
"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
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...
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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. 📚🎉💜
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
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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! 📚🖊️
Acre Books@acrebooks.bsky.social · last yr.In less than two weeks, Acre Books will be open to #submissions of #fiction and #nonfiction! Stay tuned for details. And, in the meantime, visit www.acre-books.com to learn more about our editors, authors, and titles. #prose #booksky
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...
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!
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.
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... 🎉🎉🎉
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...
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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.
The Cincinnati Review@cincinnatireview.bsky.social · last yr.Every family has them. Issue 22.1's accompanying folio is all about FAMILY SECRETS, featuring work by @jscheng.bsky.social , Sadia Hassan, @jessejohnson.bsky.social , @sharalessley.bsky.social and @thejs3.bsky.social .
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. 💜 tinyurl.com/5f5dhs7x
"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
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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.
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...
Course on Describing your WIP
Get ideas on how to write a strong description of your poetry manuscript!
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When the news gets depressing, there's only one cure. #pets #cute #guineapigcore #guineapig
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 💕
The Cincinnati Review@cincinnatireview.bsky.social · last yr.An essay by contributor @cdonosowriter.bsky.social (Cristi Donoso) on encouraging her son's creativity: "I take it as a sacred duty to create the necessary conditions for his art to exist, for nurturing his creative life, whatever form that will take." Link in thread:
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
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: lisaampleman.com/remembering-...
Remembering Mark Phillips
Remembering Mark Alfred Phillips, our great-uncle who was estranged from the family
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