Sarah Layden
@sarahlayden.bsky.social
Writer, professor, reader. #amquerying --> https://sarahlayden.com/
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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.
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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.
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.
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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.
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.)
(And: I've been following Dave's music and arts reporting since the '90s, so this was especially fun for me.)
Author Sarah Layden views this weekend’s Proof festival in Indianapolis as a literary entry point. Details at Indianapolis Business Journal:
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October 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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.)
(And: I've been following Dave's music and arts reporting since the '90s, so this was especially fun for me.)
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New at Slackjaw!
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I Asked ChatGPT For A Skin Care Regime, And Now My Pores Are Invading Saint-Tropez
Maybe it’s the algorithm. Maybe it’s me.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New at Slackjaw!
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New at Slackjaw!
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I Asked ChatGPT For A Skin Care Regime, And Now My Pores Are Invading Saint-Tropez
Maybe it’s the algorithm. Maybe it’s me.
medium.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New at Slackjaw!
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Me, every time I open this website: <whispers> "banksy"
September 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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. 🙃
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"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...
09/27/2025 Gathering of Writers - Indiana Writers Center
Dates: Saturday, September 27, 2025 Time: 8:25 am – 4:30 pm Location: Indiana State Library Cost: Nonmembers: $200; Writer/Reader Members: $137; Teacher, St ...
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September 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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...
"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...
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...
Medium. I'm speaking on time management for writers, 11:30 AM EDT. medium.com/@sarahlayden...
Join me for Medium Day 2025: Time Management for Writers
Writers! Fellow clock-watchers and schedule-scramblers! You might find yourself looking for a reset when it comes to time management. I’m…
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September 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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...
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?
September 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Boston! Recs for things to do on Saturday night?
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
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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
Last week's view on the Inca Trail, en route to Machu Picchu
July 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Last week's view on the Inca Trail, en route to Machu Picchu
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“It takes you from day to night, and from perimenopause to menopause.” By Sarah Layden
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...
May 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Indy people! At 6pm I’ll be chatting with Barbara Shoup about her new book, ABOUT GRACE, at Dream Palace Books downtown. Come by!
May 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Indy people! At 6pm I’ll be chatting with Barbara Shoup about her new book, ABOUT GRACE, at Dream Palace Books downtown. Come by!
Reposted by Sarah Layden
“It takes you from day to night, and from perimenopause to menopause.” By Sarah Layden
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...
May 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“It takes you from day to night, and from perimenopause to menopause.” By Sarah Layden
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...
“It takes you from day to night, and from perimenopause to menopause.” By Sarah Layden
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...
May 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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
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Unfriend Me Now
“The belongingness hypothesis suggests that humans have a fundamental need to form and maintain meaningful social bonds. Yet two contradictory impulses seem to guide associative behaviors: the need…
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May 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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...
museandfurylit.com/2025/05/13/u...
AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
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AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events.
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February 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
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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.
February 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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!
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03/13-04/04 Fiction Writers Workshop - Indiana Writers Center
Instructor: Sarah Layden Dates: 4 Thursdays: March 13, 20, 27; April 3 Time: 6:30-8:30 pm EST Location: IWC Classroom at the Indianapolis Opera Center Cost: ...
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February 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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...
www.indianawriters.org/product/layd...
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."
February 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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."
Devouring this novel I’m reading with a knife and fork; same one I gave up on a couple years ago, despite loving the writer’s other books. Timing is all. Some things aren’t for you until they are.
January 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Devouring this novel I’m reading with a knife and fork; same one I gave up on a couple years ago, despite loving the writer’s other books. Timing is all. Some things aren’t for you until they are.
Watched the movie Small Things Like These, based on the Claire Keegan novel. Both are excellent.
December 27, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Watched the movie Small Things Like These, based on the Claire Keegan novel. Both are excellent.
Oh HI! Close to home & close to my heart: Looking forward to joining the Lawrence Library book club to discuss Imagine Your Life Like This. Drop by if you're free! Tues. 12/17 at 10:30 a.m.
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Adult Book Discussion at Lawrence
Adults are invited to this monthly book discussion program. The title for December is "Imagine Your Life Like This" by Sarah Layden. Author Sarah Layden will be leading this book discussion.
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December 11, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Oh HI! Close to home & close to my heart: Looking forward to joining the Lawrence Library book club to discuss Imagine Your Life Like This. Drop by if you're free! Tues. 12/17 at 10:30 a.m.
indianapolis.libnet.info/event/11562282
indianapolis.libnet.info/event/11562282