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Alissa Hattman
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Author of SIFT (The 3rd Thing, 2023) & POST (zines + things, 2021).
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Alissa Hattman @alissahattman.bsky.social · Mar 5
Sift (shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K Le Guin Prize for Fiction) follows two women through the haze of social and environmental collapse as they search for fertile soil. the3rdthing.press/product/sift/
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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
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October 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Rakesfall!! Huge congratulations to @vajra.me 💐
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.
October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT.

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The eight books shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction are in a stack, with a note on top that reads "Prize winner announcement 10.21.25 9 am PDT." The books are North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher; Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins; The City in Glass by Nghi Vo; The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy; The West Passage by Jared Pechaček; Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera; Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston; and Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson.
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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terribiliti.bsky.social Will Hattman @terribiliti.bsky.social · Oct 11
Diane Keaton never gave a bad performance, nor even a middling, checked-out one. Never seemed to be working for the paycheck. She put everything into every role and nailed them all, with a grace so organic that her range seemed as natural a phenomenon as her beauty. RIP to one of the greats.
Diane Keaton photographed by Norman Seeff in 1975
October 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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So excited to talk with James about their new book! Save the date! 🔥
jamesrgapinski.bsky.social James R. Gapinski @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social · Aug 21
Book tour starts in Portland, Oregon with a stop at @powells.bsky.social on Hawthorne. In conversation with @alissahattman.bsky.social. October 9th at 7:00pm.

More info here: www.powells.com/events/james...

#reading #books #author #writing #stories #fiction
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August 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Landscape II: Learn more about Sumeet Singh's artistic practice that encompasses collage and mixed-media art.

Singh is an organizer of the 'Let ‘Er Rip' project team, a diverse cross-section of contemporary collage that showed in #Portland, Ore.

#Art

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June 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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To celebrate the release of the audiobook, audiobooks.com is offering 50% off of SIFT until the end of August!

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June 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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SIFT is now available as an audiobook! 🌿🎧🎶
June 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Congratulations to the finalists!
ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jun 18
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
June 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Announcing the SIFT reader guide portal!

For anyone who is looking to make a way when there seems to be no way. May we find safer roads together.

@the3rdthing.press

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May 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Many thanks to the contributors & editors for their work on the “careful/care-full” collaboration issue of ABOUT PLACE JOURNAL.

Lucie Bonvalet & I offer a fragment from a world we created. We hope you enjoy. 🌱

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May 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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A black background with two thin white outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, white text reads: "A beautiful, shiny white coat with a sleek, fluffy tail, and, yes, a fur-less human-like face, sharp-featured, though she could not make out the eyes. — Alissa Hattman, 'The Fox Face' (Issue 12, 2018)” A white background with two thin black outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, black text reads: "The bones in my hand that healed diagonally. The lie I tell, that I have never broken a bone. What it's like to feel lost inside your body. How hard it is to look. — Tate N. Oquendo, 'We Are Edging Ever Closer to the Moment When the Antichrist Cleaves the World' (Issue 12, 2018)”
May 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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this weekend we're reading Shirley's dozenth issue, with 5 daring short stories by Kayla Eason, Caitlyn GD, Rita Hynes, Alissa Hattman, and Tate Oquendo.
Jump into the archive with us at surelymag.com/archive 〰️
A white background with two thin black outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, black text reads: "The reoccurring dream: his blood tasting like the river. — Kayla Eason, 'To Memorize' (Issue 12, 2018)” A black background with two thin white outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, white text reads: "They adore the monster parts of me. They want to know why-how-what made me like this. I pierce the veil with my fangs. I am their closest to holy. — Caitlyn GD, 'Live Women!' (Issue 12, 2018)” A white background with two thin black outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, black text reads: "I thought about my mother's womb and I believed the ovaries in our bellies were worms, eating both of us out from the inside. — Rita Hynes, 'Who Is My Mother? What Does She Know?' (Issue 12, 2018)”
May 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Love this review of Gloria Frym's Lies & More Lies by the insightful @alissahattman.bsky.social "Americans, in particular, have reached an all-time low for the category of lies within lies within lies. We’ve mastered the turducken lie, which might be funny if it weren’t so hateful and grotesque. ‼️🙌
April 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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"Frym’s writing evokes the strange, scrambled, alienating feeling of being absorbed by a nation’s corrupt corpus of lies." Alissa Hattman on Gloria Frym's Lies & More Lies. Review at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/review-glori...
Review: Gloria Frym’s Lies & More Lies - SmokeLong Quarterly
Review by Alissa Hattman Halfway through Gloria Frym’s prose collection Lies & More Lies [BLAZEVox 2025], I started to jot down every type of lie I saw on the page. Quickly, the list grew long. Each p...
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April 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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It was an honor to review Gloria Frym’s LIES & MORE LIES for SMOKELONG QUARTERLY. www.smokelong.com/review-glori...
Review: Gloria Frym’s Lies & More Lies - SmokeLong Quarterly
Review by Alissa Hattman Halfway through Gloria Frym’s prose collection Lies & More Lies [BLAZEVox 2025], I started to jot down every type of lie I saw on the page. Quickly, the list grew long. Each p...
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April 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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“Do I construct all my memories like barricades? Where is the inside of the barricade? Where is the outside? How do I know on which side to hide and wait for the tank to come?” from Lucie Bonvalet’s “The Empty Snail Shell” in FENCE. fenceportal.org/the-empty-sn...
The Empty Snail Shell
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April 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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"Despite the district’s ruling, Inama refuses to remove the signs, even if it means risking her job. 'There’s no way I would be able to allow myself to just take it down and roll over to what I feel like they’re asking me to do.'"
Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying 'Everyone is welcome here'
“There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” argues Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher.
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March 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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our submission window is now open until May 15! find out more about what we're looking for at surelymag.com/about
about — surely
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April 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Excited to see SIFT on this list! Thank you @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social & @electricliterature.com 🌺
March 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Glad to hear some good news today! I have been a reader, supporter, and fan of The Rumpus my whole adult life. Thank you, @roxanegay.bsky.social & @debbiemillman.bsky.social ❤️
therumpus.net The Rumpus @therumpus.net · Mar 28
BIG NEWS! The Rumpus will transition to new ownership under @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social effective May 1. This change is an opportunity for a more sustainable future and meaningful growth. 🎉 Read the full announcement from our publisher, Alyson Sinclair. buff.ly/aFeXcEE
March 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Thank you, @janpriddy.bsky.social for this ✨gorgeous✨ review of SIFT. Calyx is one of my very favorite literary journals! 🌺 www.calyxpress.org/reviews/sift...
Sift by Alissa Hattman - CALYX
Jan Priddy explores themes of family, resilience, and climate disaster in this novel by Hattman that centers around mother and daughter.
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March 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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“Hattman’s prose in these brief vignettes is lush and evocative, clear as crystal and precious as the view backward into a past that is lost. What comes next is possibility.” 🌿 Thank you to @janpriddy.bsky.social and Calyx for this review of @alissahattman.bsky.social’s gorgeous, timely novel SIFT
March 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM