Lisa Ampleman
@lisaampleman.bsky.social
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Poet (Mom in Space), parent, editor (Cincinnati Review; Acre Books), space nerd.
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Dan O'Brien
28 days ago
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
🙏🏻
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LSU Press
29 days ago
"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
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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...
https://bit.ly/generichusband
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Acre Books
2 months ago
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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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
https://tinyurl.com/b4vvc6ju
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The Cincinnati Review
2 months ago
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.
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Acre Books
3 months ago
Keep those August
#prose
submissions coming! 📚🖊️
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River River Books
3 months ago
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.
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Acre Books
3 months ago
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
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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...
3 months ago
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The Cincinnati Review
5 months ago
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!
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The Cincinnati Review
5 months ago
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.
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Acre Books
6 months ago
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...
🎉🎉🎉
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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...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/D/bo249122478.html
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Leah Umansky
6 months ago
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
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Jessica E. Johnson
6 months ago
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.
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Shara Lessley
6 months ago
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
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"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
https://www.cincinnatireview.com/special-features/let-me-whisper-in-your-ear-a-craft-essay-by-shara-lessley/
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
6 months ago
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes
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The Cincinnati Review
6 months ago
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.
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The Cincinnati Review
7 months ago
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.
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Lauren Groff
7 months ago
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.
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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...
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Course on Describing your WIP
Get ideas on how to write a strong description of your poetry manuscript!
https://lisaampleman.com/course-on-describing-your-wip/
7 months ago
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7 months ago
When the news gets depressing, there's only one cure.
#pets
#cute
#guineapigcore
#guineapig
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So bad about posting here.
7 months ago
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Cristi Donoso (she/ella)
8 months ago
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 💕
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The Cincinnati Review
9 months ago
It's that time once again, shoppers! We're OPEN for your miCRo submissions. Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
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Alycia Pirmohamed
10 months ago
always a good day to buy your next read from an independent bookstore or borrow it from the library
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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-...
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Remembering Mark Phillips
Remembering Mark Alfred Phillips, our great-uncle who was estranged from the family
https://lisaampleman.com/remembering-mark-phillips/
10 months ago
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Laughing hysterically:
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10 months ago
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Kevin Prufer
10 months ago
Because of the really nice buzz around my little apocalyptic novel Sleepaway, Amazon has sold out. But copies available directly through the distributor, linked below. And if you use this discount code, you'll get 15% off: HOHOACRE15.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Sleepaway
A haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer. It’s 1984, and the invisible mists are falling, mists that cause people to slip into dreamless slumber—sleeps from which most, but not all, aw...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo214801981.html
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Suggestions for overcoming inertia?
10 months ago
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David M. Perry
11 months ago
Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.
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Rewatching Baking It on Peacock and wondering why it didn't get more attention. Baking? Hilarious grannies? Fantastic
11 months ago
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The Cincinnati Review
11 months ago
Two more days to save! From now until Dec 19, take 50% off everything we sell, including print and digital subscriptions, single issues, and our stylish swag. Find all the deals in our shop, and use code BLEAK at checkout:
https://buff.ly/48filiX
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You have to listen to this BONKERS story from The Moth podcast. Been thinking about it since I heard it:
themoth.org/storytellers...
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The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling
The Moth is a nonprofit organization that builds empathy through live and virtual storytelling shows, open-mic storytelling events, The Moth Radio Hour, The Moth Podcast and storytelling workshops.
https://themoth.org/storytellers/mary-claire-king
11 months ago
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20° this morning, and my joints have noticed. 🥶🦴
11 months ago
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River River Books
11 months ago
Y’all we have a recommendation and it is that you buy at least ONE book directly from a small press today—not bookshop, not Amazon. Help keep small presses open.
@juneroadpress.bsky.social
@sundresspub.bsky.social
@bellepointpress.bsky.social
@lightscatterpress.bsky.social
@bullcitypress.com
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Poetry Daily
11 months ago
Today’s Featured Poet: “My Faith Unfolds Itself” by Alafia Nicole Sessions, from Issue 21.1 of
@cincinnatireview.bsky.social
. Read here:
poems.com/poem/my-fait...
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"My Faith Unfolds Itself" by Alafia Nicole Sessions
from The Cincinnati Review
https://poems.com/poem/my-faith-unfolds-itself/
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Two guinea pigs in this photo. One is named Midnight, in case that helps. 😆🧐
12 months ago
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Acre Books
12 months ago
We have exciting things planned for 2025! Check out cover reveals for our forthcoming
#books
of
#poetry
and
#fiction
! Learn more about these upcoming titles at www.acre-books.com. 🎉🎉🎉
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What are your benign bad habits? I tend to scatter several sweaters over shared living space. I had three in one room today. 🤭
12 months ago
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Tuesday morning thoughts about why it isn't Friday yet
12 months ago
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Have been absent from here. Checking in to see how the water is.
12 months ago
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The beginning of my essay "Acquiring the Fire," the last piece from *Mom in Space* to be published, with South Dakota Review! (Also, despite knowing some things about photo taking, I rarely get good pics of book pages??)
over 1 year ago
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Brown Bag Lit
almost 2 years ago
Brown Bag Lit Friends Recommend... Literary Magazines!
@lisaampleman.bsky.social
, author of Mom in Space (LSU Press), recommends The Southern Review. Read and submit, friends!
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The Cincinnati Review
almost 2 years ago
"We’re writers too, and we know what it’s like to send work off into the digital ether, wondering who might pick it up at the other end." In today's dispatch from the editors,
@lisaampleman.bsky.social
pulls back the curtain on the miCRo editorial process.
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Behind the Curtain for the miCRo Series
Get to know more about who is curating the miCRo series and how they do it!
https://www.cincinnatireview.com/editors-dispatches/behind-the-curtain-for-the-micro-series/
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A few sections of "Calamity Days," a final piece from *Mom in Space* in a lit mag, with Georgia Review.
almost 2 years ago
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The Cincinnati Review
almost 2 years ago
Urban decay and old brick buildings abound in this audio-photo essay in which contributor Jim Palmarini reads his mesmerizing piece from issue 20.2, WELCOME TO THE READING. Direction and editing by Assistant Editor Holli Carrell.
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Special Feature: Jim Palmarini's "WELCOME TO THE READING"
A video ode to the places where poetry lives and has lived in Cincinnati, from contributor Jim Palmarini.
https://t.co/j1VxOxJoMe
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20 years of
@cincinnatireview.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
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In which I express a possibly unpopular opinion:
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almost 2 years ago
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My first copy of Mom in Space arrived today ahead of its publication date (Jan. 31), thanks to Alisa Plant of LSU Press. It's a real book!!
almost 2 years ago
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