Chatted with my friend, Melanie Pappadis Faranello, about her debut story collection, Everybody Needs Something, for Cleaver Magazine. www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversati...

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 @epiphanylit.bsky.social (open till June 15th!)

Many thanks to @100wordstory.bsky.social and Michelle Ross for this alumni spotlight 100wordstory.org/sara-lippman...

Tomorrow night!

also, this happened: www.haaretz.com/life/2026-05...

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...

morning

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...

The way that @splitlipthemag.bsky.social shows up for its contributors and staffers, past and present, always—is so beautiful and special:

What a night at Powerhouse Arena for @saralippmann.bsky.social’s NYC book launch! Packed house! Fantastic energy & love in this room! Sara is a genius & I cannot wait to read HIDDEN RIVER! (Also: check out her adorable and delicious book merch! Perfect for this Philly novel!)

"It was important to maintain both generational integrity and cultural complicity while not erasing desire or complex feelings around agency." Read @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview w/ @saralippmann.bsky.social on "Hidden River" (@tortoisebooks.bsky.social). chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/05/d...

Opening day! Fast balls, slurves, sliders we want it all —through June 15: epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit

Happy to be here in very good company:

The face of a very good guy (and editor. and publisher. and writer. and human.)

At the Brooklyn Rail, I talked with wonderful Jacqui Devaney about gen x grooming, cultural complicity, flash as structure, toxic friendship + the Philly ‘burbs brooklynrail.org/2026/05/book...

Giving away some copies of the pink puss www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

This week's #SundaySentence comes from one of the superb stories in *3 by Sara Lippmann* ( @saralippmann.bsky.social ). www.erikadreifus.com/2026/04/sund...

“Art is the business of making up stuff — go make up some stuff.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Could not be more excited to read Sara Lippmann's Hidden River, pubbing May 5th from @tortoisebooks.bsky.social. Gift yourself a presale? @saralippmann.bsky.social

this chap came out yesterday. three stories to fit in the back pocket. dig the concept? check out 3 (if you’re curious but don’t have the cash, DM and I’ll gladly mail you a copy) www.ristrettobooks.org/shop/p/3-by-...

We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social! Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

”Embrace the space around the work, whatever that looks like: running, glass blowing, cloud watching. Let it fill you with wonder. Allow yourself fallow periods. That’s life, too....Live yours with integrity and generosity.” More from Sara Lippmann, editor in chief of Epiphany: pw.org/AERLippmann

it is a truth universally acknowledged that if you take your summer campers to a kosher chicken plant, they will write it into a story 40 years later sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/

To be a part of the @tortoisebooks.bsky.social. family is a gift. The quiet unassuming genius of @jerrybrennan.bsky.social makes him the very best of the best. So glad he’s getting attention he deeply deserves

Epiphany's annual breakout prize is open for submissions, we're thrilled to announce this year's judges: Cynthia Cruz in poetry and Alexandra Kleeman in prose! If you want our judges to read the work you’re most proud of, go to the link in our bio to submit to the Breakout Prize!

10 readers. 4 literary magazines. One night for the books—both published and forthcoming. We’re very grateful to all the writers and friends who came out to our offsite reading last Friday with @creamcityreview.bsky.social, @baltimorereview.bsky.social, and Lampblack Lit!

hey early birds, our last rise and write sesh @writingco-lab.bksky.social was so powerful I’m doing it again. Set your clocks. Join us! Fun start Mon. And if you’ve never tried it, now’s your time. It’s freeeeeee www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...

Epiphany’s Breakout Prize is open, and it’s not just for students—all writers who haven’t published a full-length book can apply. Winners in each category (poetry and prose) will receive a $1,000 cash prize and publication in our next issue. Apply through the link in our bio!

true I hit the jackpot with @jerrybrennan.bsky.social for an editor

bruh I’m so over you even as I’m under you

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Lippmann / @saralippmann.bsky.social @tortoisebooks.bsky.social @bookshop.org ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/12-o...

I wrote about one of the worst aspects of the Epstein files www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

introverts, on day 3 of going nowhere

“None of this was supposed to be easy. Not writing, not life, not love.” lithub.com/against-gene...

new website! thanks to the amazing and talented @bybethhahn.bsky.social 💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗 www.saralippmann.com

Final hours to support the return of the Creative Resistance Series @writingco-lab.bsky.social Because we need this stream of kindness compassion and defiance now more than ever www.kickstarter.com/projects/130...

Big ups to @saralippmann.bsky.social for ending up on this @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social list of the most-anticipated books of 2026! (And big thanks to @mbwelch.bsky.social and team for the coverage!) chireviewofbooks.com/2026/01/06/o...

“Nothing else exists or ever was of this hoarse Magnitude.” do yourself a favor and read these beauts by the late great edmund white.

happy solstice! If you (like me) have found your habits out of whack lately, rededicate to your writing practice in the new year! I’ll be hosting another FREE Ungodly writing club session weekday mornings 1/6-1/15 new gentler time 6-730 EST. www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...

psssssssst this jawn (out in May) @tortoisebooks.bsky.social is now up on edelweiss if anyone wants a free early look www.edelweiss.plus?sku=19651992...

I had the best time at Epiphany’s holiday reading celebrating their gorgeous new issue! Absolutely adored Wah-Ming Chang’s memoir, @jweirdo.bsky.social’s fiction and @saralippmann.bsky.social’s lovely words about the importance of literature and community at times like these. ❤️

a brilliant light in the dark. @lateration.bsky.social 🔥

happy dress-your-dog-like -a-toddler day to those who celebrate

new look, same bold vision

FACTS.

Can’t wait to share the beautiful new issue! And can’t wait to read your wonderful work! Subs close Dec 15th epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit

Oh shit, it's Stylish But Illegal Monkey Day

Our 2026 winter/spring classes are here! We’ll be adding a few more in the next week or so, but already it is a creative feast. Check ‘em out and come co-lab with us! www.writingco-lab.com/classes

BOOKMAIL, yea! I'm thrilled to bring author Melanie Pappadis Faranello back to Sunday Salon Chicago in May 2026 & can't wait to read her forthcoming collection. CONGRATS Melanie! 👏🔥 Cool blurbs, y'all! Dialing in @saralippmann.bsky.social & @michaelzapata.bsky.social 🥰 www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

Jerks, all glowed up, out today (again) from @tortoisebooks.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/jerk...