Hannah Sward
@summerjar.bsky.social
STRIP: A Memoir 📚 IPPY GOLD Medalist
✍🏽 LA Times, HuffPost, NYT, The Rumpus etc. New on Substack ‘Summer of Men’ 💋(dating/sex) https://open.substack.com/pub/summerofmen/p/threesomes-and-jealousy?r=9br3o&utm_medium=ios
✍🏽 LA Times, HuffPost, NYT, The Rumpus etc. New on Substack ‘Summer of Men’ 💋(dating/sex) https://open.substack.com/pub/summerofmen/p/threesomes-and-jealousy?r=9br3o&utm_medium=ios
Reposted by Hannah Sward
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
Latest installment of Summer of Men.
“Threesomes and Jealousy”
I remember the way his eyes lingered on her boobs, the way they overflowed out of her magenta bikini top, the full moon lighting the night. I wanted the moon to go away, for it to be dark…
open.substack.com/pub/summerof...
“Threesomes and Jealousy”
I remember the way his eyes lingered on her boobs, the way they overflowed out of her magenta bikini top, the full moon lighting the night. I wanted the moon to go away, for it to be dark…
open.substack.com/pub/summerof...
August 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Latest installment of Summer of Men.
“Threesomes and Jealousy”
I remember the way his eyes lingered on her boobs, the way they overflowed out of her magenta bikini top, the full moon lighting the night. I wanted the moon to go away, for it to be dark…
open.substack.com/pub/summerof...
“Threesomes and Jealousy”
I remember the way his eyes lingered on her boobs, the way they overflowed out of her magenta bikini top, the full moon lighting the night. I wanted the moon to go away, for it to be dark…
open.substack.com/pub/summerof...
Thank you Andrea for what you gave. Thank you for what you continue to give.
“Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” ~ Andrea Gibson
“Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” ~ Andrea Gibson
July 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Thank you Andrea for what you gave. Thank you for what you continue to give.
“Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” ~ Andrea Gibson
“Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” ~ Andrea Gibson
Inhumane. My god.
July 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Inhumane. My god.
All of a sudden I have 16 paid subscribers. I can’t believe it. So incredibly generous. Thank you to all who involuntarily chose to do so!
Paying it forward by choosing a few Substacks to sign up for a paid subscription.
Big gratitude.
open.substack.com/pub/summerof...
Paying it forward by choosing a few Substacks to sign up for a paid subscription.
Big gratitude.
open.substack.com/pub/summerof...
Summer of Men | Hannah Sward | Substack
After 6 years of no sex, a 50-year-old single woman loads up the dating apps in search of a reliable summer lover. These are her encounters. Click to read Summer of Men, by Hannah Sward, a Substack pu...
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July 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
All of a sudden I have 16 paid subscribers. I can’t believe it. So incredibly generous. Thank you to all who involuntarily chose to do so!
Paying it forward by choosing a few Substacks to sign up for a paid subscription.
Big gratitude.
open.substack.com/pub/summerof...
Paying it forward by choosing a few Substacks to sign up for a paid subscription.
Big gratitude.
open.substack.com/pub/summerof...
Three years today, the greatest of gifts to be by my fathers side as he took his last breath.
And so it was I began this day just as he would have wanted me to. Writing to him. Always with you dear dad and always, I with you.
An excerpt from one of my favorites of my fathers poems.
And so it was I began this day just as he would have wanted me to. Writing to him. Always with you dear dad and always, I with you.
An excerpt from one of my favorites of my fathers poems.
February 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Three years today, the greatest of gifts to be by my fathers side as he took his last breath.
And so it was I began this day just as he would have wanted me to. Writing to him. Always with you dear dad and always, I with you.
An excerpt from one of my favorites of my fathers poems.
And so it was I began this day just as he would have wanted me to. Writing to him. Always with you dear dad and always, I with you.
An excerpt from one of my favorites of my fathers poems.
I can’t believe it. I’m at Skylight Books to sign a couple copies of Strip and they sold out again. Having gone to Skylight for the past 25 years, this is a dream.
February 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I can’t believe it. I’m at Skylight Books to sign a couple copies of Strip and they sold out again. Having gone to Skylight for the past 25 years, this is a dream.
One of the things I’ve struggled with as a writer is the question of what is success? How much am I looking to publication for validation? From the external to the internal journey, I loved this conversation with Lisa Cooper Ellison.
To listen go to: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
To listen go to: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
February 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
One of the things I’ve struggled with as a writer is the question of what is success? How much am I looking to publication for validation? From the external to the internal journey, I loved this conversation with Lisa Cooper Ellison.
To listen go to: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
To listen go to: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
What an honor to talk with @lisacooperellison.bsky.social on her Writing Your Resilience podcast about my memoir, Strip.
If you’ve ever struggled w/ what to reveal, how to structure your story, or how to make peace with your past through writing, this episode is for you.
Listen here: buff.ly/3XcKJz
If you’ve ever struggled w/ what to reveal, how to structure your story, or how to make peace with your past through writing, this episode is for you.
Listen here: buff.ly/3XcKJz
February 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
What an honor to talk with @lisacooperellison.bsky.social on her Writing Your Resilience podcast about my memoir, Strip.
If you’ve ever struggled w/ what to reveal, how to structure your story, or how to make peace with your past through writing, this episode is for you.
Listen here: buff.ly/3XcKJz
If you’ve ever struggled w/ what to reveal, how to structure your story, or how to make peace with your past through writing, this episode is for you.
Listen here: buff.ly/3XcKJz
Reposted by Hannah Sward
What an honor to interview Hannah Sward (@summerjar.bsky.social) about her powerful memoir Strip! We covered so much territory from transcription practices and the somatic exercises she used to build powerful sex scenes to how she turned deep trauma into art. Listen here: https://buff.ly/3XcKJzx
February 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
What an honor to interview Hannah Sward (@summerjar.bsky.social) about her powerful memoir Strip! We covered so much territory from transcription practices and the somatic exercises she used to build powerful sex scenes to how she turned deep trauma into art. Listen here: https://buff.ly/3XcKJzx
How good it feels to get a few solid hours of writing in today. I put the phone in another room. Some days I put it in the trunk of my car so I don’t get distracted. The economy of time.
January 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
How good it feels to get a few solid hours of writing in today. I put the phone in another room. Some days I put it in the trunk of my car so I don’t get distracted. The economy of time.
On my desk where I write…
‘Never lose hope, dear heart. Miracles swell in the invisible.’ - Rumi
‘Never lose hope, dear heart. Miracles swell in the invisible.’ - Rumi
January 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
On my desk where I write…
‘Never lose hope, dear heart. Miracles swell in the invisible.’ - Rumi
‘Never lose hope, dear heart. Miracles swell in the invisible.’ - Rumi
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Free hotel rooms from Hilton for those impacted by wildfires in LA
🙏🏻💙❤️💙🙏🏻 #wildfires #CA #LA #LAFIRES #LosAngeles #LosAngelesFires #wildfire #fires #pets #petrescue #rescue #emergency #wildlife #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #FireAid #LAStrong #SoCal #Pasadena#Altadena #SoCalFires
🙏🏻💙❤️💙🙏🏻 #wildfires #CA #LA #LAFIRES #LosAngeles #LosAngelesFires #wildfire #fires #pets #petrescue #rescue #emergency #wildlife #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #FireAid #LAStrong #SoCal #Pasadena#Altadena #SoCalFires
January 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Free hotel rooms from Hilton for those impacted by wildfires in LA
🙏🏻💙❤️💙🙏🏻 #wildfires #CA #LA #LAFIRES #LosAngeles #LosAngelesFires #wildfire #fires #pets #petrescue #rescue #emergency #wildlife #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #FireAid #LAStrong #SoCal #Pasadena#Altadena #SoCalFires
🙏🏻💙❤️💙🙏🏻 #wildfires #CA #LA #LAFIRES #LosAngeles #LosAngelesFires #wildfire #fires #pets #petrescue #rescue #emergency #wildlife #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #FireAid #LAStrong #SoCal #Pasadena#Altadena #SoCalFires
Received my forth royalty check today. A modest amount but enough to pay a few bills. Published over two years ago, I like thinking of Strip as the little engine that could. No big bang out of the gate but it continues down the tracks.
December 19, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Received my forth royalty check today. A modest amount but enough to pay a few bills. Published over two years ago, I like thinking of Strip as the little engine that could. No big bang out of the gate but it continues down the tracks.
PRESSED SENT to my editor!
I think Salt N’ Straw double scoop is in
order📖🍦
I think Salt N’ Straw double scoop is in
order📖🍦
December 13, 2024 at 12:18 AM
PRESSED SENT to my editor!
I think Salt N’ Straw double scoop is in
order📖🍦
I think Salt N’ Straw double scoop is in
order📖🍦
Grateful to my publisher for marking my memoir down to .99 until Friday! For those interested in checking it out I never want to have the price be an issue!
Subject matter:
-childhood trauma
-addiction
-stripping
-sex trade
-the road to recovery & back to the written word
a.co/d/6t8yRB2
Subject matter:
-childhood trauma
-addiction
-stripping
-sex trade
-the road to recovery & back to the written word
a.co/d/6t8yRB2
December 12, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Grateful to my publisher for marking my memoir down to .99 until Friday! For those interested in checking it out I never want to have the price be an issue!
Subject matter:
-childhood trauma
-addiction
-stripping
-sex trade
-the road to recovery & back to the written word
a.co/d/6t8yRB2
Subject matter:
-childhood trauma
-addiction
-stripping
-sex trade
-the road to recovery & back to the written word
a.co/d/6t8yRB2
20+ years ago I began writing a short story collection. After having taken a side step to go back to college, do meth, drink, get sober and write a memoir, this week I am sending my collection in to my new editor.
Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
December 10, 2024 at 11:47 PM
20+ years ago I began writing a short story collection. After having taken a side step to go back to college, do meth, drink, get sober and write a memoir, this week I am sending my collection in to my new editor.
Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
My publisher is hopping on the holiday sale train marking Strip down to .99 cents on Kindle! Dec.7-12
One of the early blurbs to entice you, drum roll please…one of my favorite authors, Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee.
a.co/d/6t8yRB2
One of the early blurbs to entice you, drum roll please…one of my favorite authors, Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee.
a.co/d/6t8yRB2
December 7, 2024 at 11:13 PM
My publisher is hopping on the holiday sale train marking Strip down to .99 cents on Kindle! Dec.7-12
One of the early blurbs to entice you, drum roll please…one of my favorite authors, Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee.
a.co/d/6t8yRB2
One of the early blurbs to entice you, drum roll please…one of my favorite authors, Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee.
a.co/d/6t8yRB2
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Making “reduce, reuse, recycle” cool again.👏👏👇🏼
I think it would be pretty neat than instead of celebrating when we all get a brand new product, we instead brag about how long we have had our things and still use them.
I've had my iphone 6s since 2016 and just replaced it with a hand-me-down iphone 11.
ipad pro & apple pen - 2018
imac - 2011
I've had my iphone 6s since 2016 and just replaced it with a hand-me-down iphone 11.
ipad pro & apple pen - 2018
imac - 2011
December 2, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Making “reduce, reuse, recycle” cool again.👏👏👇🏼
Every Thanksgiving I look back on my last Thanksgiving before sobriety. May I never forget what it was like. And if I ever do, may Strip (my memoir) be there to remind me.
An excerpt from the day itself back in 2009.
An excerpt from the day itself back in 2009.
November 29, 2024 at 4:29 AM
Every Thanksgiving I look back on my last Thanksgiving before sobriety. May I never forget what it was like. And if I ever do, may Strip (my memoir) be there to remind me.
An excerpt from the day itself back in 2009.
An excerpt from the day itself back in 2009.
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My ranking of 1000+ literary magazines
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
Rankings | Brecht De Poortere
Ranking of the best literary magazines and journals
www.brechtdepoortere.com
November 16, 2024 at 7:59 AM
My ranking of 1000+ literary magazines
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
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We ran a map of where to find independent bookstores in Southern California. Take a look and be heartened at all the little oasis of good…
Map: 70 independent bookstores in Southern California
Here’s where to find them in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange Counties (and beyond).
www.ocregister.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:14 PM
We ran a map of where to find independent bookstores in Southern California. Take a look and be heartened at all the little oasis of good…