Happy Black History Month! To quote brilliant anthropologist & writer Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960): "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." Rec'd: Their Eyes Were Watching God; Barracoon; Alice Walker's 1975 essay, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston."
Me, every time I open this website: <whispers> "banksy"
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Pics of Melissa, Sarah, and book cover with wild-eyed doll
Saturday at Indy Reads Books, 5:30 p.m.! I'm so excited to have a conversation with Melissa Fraterrigo about her excellent and necessary book, The Perils of Girlhood. This memoir-in-essays floored me. Come join us.
Pics of Melissa, Sarah, and book cover with wild-eyed doll
Saturday at Indy Reads Books, 5:30 p.m.! I'm so excited to have a conversation with Melissa Fraterrigo about her excellent and necessary book, The Perils of Girlhood. This memoir-in-essays floored me. Come join us.
Adorable dog with collar and crooked way of sitting.
What a great name for a dog. Her maybe-cousin Rosie came to us from Indy Animal Care Services.
So cool about Non-Stalgia, and I feel like Covid-times added to the anxiety (for me anyway.) Hope we cross paths again!
Thanks for being there! Ooh, would love to compare notes, esp. because it looks like my dog is somehow in your profile pic.
So great to chat with Dave Lindquist about Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest, happening today at the Harrison Center. My love of notebooks and eavesdropping are undeniable.
(And: I've been following Dave's music and arts reporting since the '90s, so this was especially fun for me.)
Me, every time I open this website: <whispers> "banksy"
Session & bio for Saturday's Gathering of Writers
"No Joke: Satire and Humor that Surprises"...Sarah Layden's satire appears in McSweeney’s, WaPo, Salon, The Belladonna, Points in Case, and elsewhere, but not The New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs. 🙃
www.indianawriters.org/product/gath...
Upcoming Fall events:
9/19: Medium Day
9/27: Gathering of Writers
10/10-10/11: Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest
10/16-10/18: Lit Youngstown
Details here: sarahlayden.com?page_id=138
This Friday, 9/19! Register for a free daylong writing event at
Medium. I'm speaking on time management for writers, 11:30 AM EDT. medium.com/@sarahlayden...
Boston! Recs for things to do on Saturday night?
Update: Writing badly eventually leads to writing goodly
This just in: It's entirely possible to meet yr own arbitrary word count goals if you're willing to write badly. And I'm doing it, baby! #ReviseLater #WIP #workinprogress #book #sabbatical
Mountains with sun splashes, a river valley, blue sky with clouds creating pattens on the rocks
Last week's view on the Inca Trail, en route to Machu Picchu
Indy people! At 6pm I’ll be chatting with Barbara Shoup about her new book, ABOUT GRACE, at Dream Palace Books downtown. Come by!
“It takes you from day to night, and from perimenopause to menopause.” By Sarah Layden
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...
Who knew there was a psychology behind invited unfriending on social media? (A group of psychologists, apparently.) My new humor piece, "Unfriend Me Now," is live at Muse & Fury Lit
museandfurylit.com/2025/05/13/u...
Every so often! :)
AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
apnews.com/article/ap-l...
Like #SNL50 and Sally O’Malley, I’m fifty (and a day)! I can also kick, stretch, and kick, and really shoulda stretched before that first kick.
I'm teaching an in-person fiction workshop for Indiana Writers Center this spring, which will be a blend of exercises, instruction, and critique. If you're looking for accountability, support, and feedback, check it out & consider registering!
www.indianawriters.org/product/layd...
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