for @pw.org a craft capsule on the space around the work:
Poets & Writers@pw.org · 3d ago“So much of our best writing happens when we leave behind the deadening glow of the screen.” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Sara Lippmann encourages authors to find pastimes to supplement the writing life. at.pw.org/LippmannCC2
“Social media exists to terrify us of quiet snd solitude.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/o...
Opinion | To Find Happiness, I Stopped Talking. It Helped. (Gift Article)
A silent retreat turned out to be exactly what I needed.
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What an all-star reading last night at SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO 7/26/26 at 7 pm @roscoebooks.bsky.social w/ Rachel Swearingen, @saralippmann.bsky.social, Sahar Mustafah, Richard Vargas, & Daniel Kraus, 2026 Pulitzer fiction winner! TY all! 🥰 🌈🔥 sundaysalon-chicago.com | @kayepublicity.bsky.social
for @pw.org a craft capsule on my life as a shameless cheater : www.pw.org/content/chea...
Poets & Writers@pw.org · last wk.“Instead of torturing yourself, you could transgress.” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Sara Lippmann encourages writers to pursue multiple projects simultaneously. at.pw.org/LippmannCC1
"My father closes out every phone call with an extended sputter of 'bye-byes', as if there is a magic number that will allow him to let go without finality, without ever letting go." This week's #SundaySentence comes from @saralippmann.bsky.social. www.erikadreifus.com/2026/07/sund...
#SundaySentence - Erika Dreifus
The best sentence I've read during the past week.
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This Sunday July 26, a special 90-minute live interview and reading with Amy Hempel! Included with A SmokeLong Summer/$19 tickets available to anyone via link: www.smokelong.com/product/smok... Proceeds to NYC dog rescue, Every Last One www.everylastonerescue.org. Noon NYC online. Don't miss this.
SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO happens on July 26, 2026 at 7 pm @roscoebooks.bsky.social w/ Rachel Swearingen, @saralippmann.bsky.social, Sahar Mustafah, Richard Vargas, & Daniel Kraus, 2026 Pulitzer winner in fiction, WOW! Hope to see you! 🥰🎉🌺 Bios at: sundaysalon-chicago.com | @kayepublicity.bsky.social
"I do lots of heinously bad writing early in the morning but anyone who’s ever been cornered at a party by that guy with 'an amazing idea for a book' knows: You ain’t got shit until it exists." Awesome stuff (as always) from @saralippmann.bsky.social
Kari Nguyen@knguyenwrites.bsky.social · 3w ago"But it’s either now or nowhere" - @saralippmann.bsky.social steering us home
"I am not second guessing. Hell, I’m still half asleep, tangled in the thick of dreams, swept up in the muzzy logic of the dreamscape, with nothing but the mystery of intuition to guide me." Love this, @saralippmann.bsky.social lithub.com/stealing-tim...
Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can
At 5 AM and it’s me and the birds. This is how I like it: when the house is asleep. Outside, the slow rumble of a sanitation truck. A lone scooter screams down the block. Sometimes a helicopt…
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wrote about my writing practice lithub.com/stealing-tim...
Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can
At 5 AM and it’s me and the birds. This is how I like it: when the house is asleep. Outside, the slow rumble of a sanitation truck. A lone scooter screams down the block. Sometimes a helicopt…
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grateful to @cmsarvis.bsky.social for including me in this killer roundup — and for reading with such spot-on acuity.
Caleb Michael Sarvis@cmsarvis.bsky.social · last mo.On Cormac McCarthy, Homer, @patrickcottrell.bsky.social, Ryan Ridge & Mel Bosworth, and @saralippmann.bsky.social #booksky #amreading open.substack.com/pub/calebmsa...
all we want is for our words to find its readers. grateful my new novel found one in @sarahholloway.bsky.social. many thanks for engaging with HIDDEN RIVER necessaryfiction.com/reviews/hidd...
Hidden River – Necessary Fiction
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"No matter what demons the mothers in this story are facing they are at fault because we expect motherhood to be enough for them." @saralippmann.bsky.social's interview with Shasta Grant on "When We Were Feral" (@regalhouse.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/06/11/t...
There Was This Feeling That Anything Was Possible: A Conversation with Shasta Grant about “When We Were Feral” - Chicago Review of Books
I first came across the work of Shasta Grant more than a decade ago, albeit anonymously, when I judged the Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest from Split Lip Press in 2015. Grant’s razor sharp flash stood out...
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COVER REVEAL: I'm super excited to share the cover of my story collection After Last Call, coming out next April from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. And thanks to @mrwojorising.bsky.social for the amazing work he did designing the cover 💙 Pre-order link: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
Had a great time talking with Paul about all of it, from 80s/90s Philly to why the Gilmore Girls is an ideal running recovery drug
Paul Zeidman@pezscreenwriting.bsky.social · 2mo agoAuthor @saralippmann.bsky.social (HIDDEN RIVER) on @podcastcwl.bsky.social about the obligation to tell an honest story, public vs private trauma, the concept of psychic distance, and “the menace that lies in the cloak of suburbia”. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Rprtb70aQ3b youtu.be/heZJJfz59aw
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Epiphany@epiphanylit.bsky.social · 2mo agoAlong with her incredible work manning the Epiphany ship, @saralippmann.bsky.social recently published her second novel, Hidden River. Based in Lippmann’s hometown of Philadelphia, a surprise wedding invitation leads to an honest interrogation of what #MeToo looked like before it had a name.
Chatted with my friend, Melanie Pappadis Faranello, about her debut story collection, Everybody Needs Something, for Cleaver Magazine. www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversati...
Melanie Pappadis Faranello • Interviews
Melanie Pappadis Faranello has authored numerous stories and essays that have appeared in Swamp Pink, Electric Literature, and more.
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Many thanks to @100wordstory.bsky.social and Michelle Ross for this alumni spotlight 100wordstory.org/sara-lippman...
Sara Lippmann: Hidden River - 100Words
Sara LippmannIt was a way of tricking myself into another novel.
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morning, friends. we’re doing it again. the holy ungodly. your time to get it done before the day begins. weekday mornings. it’s free. no frills. let’s hold each other to it: www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...
Grateful to the brilliant Yvonne Conza for sitting down with me and to Zona motel for featuring our VERY honest chat — and for shining a much deserved spotlight on @tortoisebooks.bsky.social outstanding editor and publisher, Jerry Brennan: open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...
CONVERSATION: Sara Lippmann on HIDDEN RIVER — Plus Jerry Brennan on Tortoise Books
A Deliberate Story. A Steady Press: Yvonne Conza talks to Sara Lippmann about her new book, HIDDEN RIVER, out from Tortoise Books, and Jerry Brennan, Tortoise's editor.
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The way that @splitlipthemag.bsky.social shows up for its contributors and staffers, past and present, always—is so beautiful and special:
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 3mo ago💕 Always excited for a new book! 💕 Contributor @saralippmann.bsky.social just launched her new book HIDDEN RIVER & was interviewed by fellow contributor @rachellayown.bsky.social 👏 buff.ly/eBHPoTa
