Lacey N. Dunham (she/her)

See you at AWP in Baltimore! Catch me at a Friday offsite reading or at my panel on debuting from different paths.

See you at AWP in Baltimore! Catch me at a Friday offsite reading or at my panel on debuting from different paths.

Breaking in is hard, but then what? Join Lacey N. Dunham (#TheBelles), Marisa Kashino (#BestOfferWins), Samuel Ashworth (#TheDeathAndLifeOfAugustSweeney), and Hannah Grieco (#FirstKickingThenNot) for a real look at the reality of that first launch year.

#WashingtonWritersConference

My Midwestern talent for reading everything as surface wins again.

Oh no. Which one just gave up the ghost?

Book Tour for Spring 2026 - A pink graphic with dates and times for six upcoming events in Baltimore, Washington, DC, Charlottesville, Alexandria, VA, and at the Gaithersburg Book Festival and the Pittsburgh Book Festival.

I hope to see your beautiful face at one of my spring events!

What anthology is it in? I can look for it here. (I don’t k ow why I can’t figure this out!)

Wow.

For the life of me, I cannot figure this out. Wildly frustrating!

Book Tour for Spring 2026 - A pink graphic with dates and times for six upcoming events in Baltimore, Washington, DC, Charlottesville, Alexandria, VA, and at the Gaithersburg Book Festival and the Pittsburgh Book Festival.

I hope to see your beautiful face at one of my spring events!

Writers, help me out: Anyone have access to — or know where I can find — Philip Gerard's essay, “An Architecture of Light: Structuring the Novel & Story Collection”?

lol no worries we’re all moving fast. DM an email address and I can send you info when I’m back in the office next week. (I think I only have your City Paper address.)

AJB is poetry only so I can’t help you there, alas.

Very cool! I work with Alice James Books, a small indie poetry press, so HMU if you’re interested in any of our forthcoming authors. www.alicejamesbooks.org

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

Only tiptoeing back onto socials to say that @necessaryfiction.com is still open to subs for our summer flash fiction series! Details, etc. etc. 👇🏼

This is important, re self-awareness about limitations of scope and reach. Even re book reviews. I know if I post about the WaPo review I was supposed to turn in I'll get well-meaning offers but the goal will be to place it somewhere with a similar audience. Working on reach is really important.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

granular, practical, well organized info here:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Submissions to our annual summer flash fiction series are now open!

I’m writing my second book. My brain is a jumble of information and details and I don’t need the distraction of this place. I’m taking a Bluesky break until 2026. See you all in the new year.

Congratulations!

What sacrificial offerings do I need to make to the writing gods for second novels?

There never seems to be a good time for anything online lately so I'm just going to throw this out here now:

I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.

Ooh okay here’s the link to the whole thing! Looking forward to reading on my next writing break!

Okay but wait—were my friends and I little psychopaths because our verses weren’t these… the one we said was “stab a knife in your back, let the blood run down…” 😬

A lot of success in writing is getting okay with receiving feedback, knowing which notes you have to take, and figuring out ways to be diplomatic about the ones you don't. Revision is one part writing skill, one part interpersonal shit.

Our editors share some of the books that captured our attention this year. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/reco...

Celebrating 3 months of THE BELLES officially being in the world!! 🎉🎉

Only 4 spots left for this class! I likely won't be able to offer this again until next fall, so jump on this one while you can.

Josh!! Thank you! "Delightfully dark" is the perfect description of what I was aiming for. 🖤☺️