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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
6 Feb 2024
As a bookshop owner in the middle of the country, I have many thoughts about this. I don't disagree, and give praise to the people who work incredibly hard on behalf of writers, but for the future of books and democracy, publishers need to set their sights beyond the northeast.
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
30 Jan 2024
At just 22, Jack Smiley ’25 was paralyzed on his right side after collapsing at hockey practice on Feb. 21, 2022. Doctors couldn’t tell him if he would ever walk again.
But with physical therapy and a positive mindset, number 10 has returned to the ice.
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
2 Jan 2024
Let’s be real. This is an extension of what happened to me at UNC, and it is a glimpse into the future to come. Academic freedom is under attack. Racial justice programs are under attack. Black women will be made to pay. Our so-called allies too often lack any real courage.
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3 Jan 2024
For anyone who has a novel manuscript ready to meet the world, consider submitting to Black Lawrence Press. Send your work!! #amwriting #amrevising #Novels #fiction #WritingCommunity
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31 Dec 2023
Unbelievable. Believable. We've done it many times before. Even while we don't have enough housing, food, education, medical care, etc and are teetering on the edge of the end of democracy, going against the rest of the world, the UN. #CeaseFireNow
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
1200 New Yorkers, led by @JewishElders, marched through midtown in silence today to mourn the thousands of Palestinian children killed in Gaza these past months, and to demand a permanent #CeasefireNOW.
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
29 Dec 2023
I had the pleasure and honor to blurb some wonderful books that came out this year. In no particular order: a thread 1/13
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
29 Dec 2023
I had the pleasure and honor to blurb some wonderful books that came out this year. In no particular order: a thread 3/13
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12 Dec 2023
Thanks to @SarahArcherM and @charlottereader for having me on their podcast. Every convo I've listened to on their podcast left me with something real and meaningful to think about.
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #amrevising #ncreaders
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12 Dec 2023
Flying out of SFO today and headed to an event at @SalemAthenaeum this week, but this is the end of my official debut novel book tour. There are some literary festivals in the spring as I hope there always will be. It's been so awesome to see so many people and share this work.
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
11 Dec 2023
So grateful to be a finalist for this! Thanks to the editors for the often thankless work of reading, and excited to be considered with so many other great writers!
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12 Dec 2023
This was an awesome event. Thank you to everyone who came to listen and to @CityLightsBooks and @BlackLawrence for organizing it.
12 Dec 2023
STARTING SOON: Join us in celebrating the indelible @BlackLawrence in City Lights's Poetry Room with readings from four authors with recently published work from the press: @lisadordal, Nancy Welch, @JoeAnnH and @saraAllen.
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
11 Dec 2023
Ohhhhh!!!! ☺️ (We're having a Sally Field at the Oscars moment!!)
11 Dec 2023
🏆 From 1500 nominations for 600 magazines, we’ve narrowed it down to the TOP 25 BEST LITMAGS OF 2023. Time to announce the winners!
Today is Round 1: #25-11
Wednesday Round 2: #10-6
Friday Round 3: #5-1
⬇️ Why they were nominated and how to submit
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ALT Best Lit Mags of 2023 Chill Subs Community Favorites #11-25 25th - Fiction on the Web 24th - Mom Egg Review 23rd - Split Lip 22nd - Variant Lit 21st - BRUISER 20th - fifth wheel press 19th - Fractured Lit 18th - RockPaperPoem 17th - trampset 16th - Reckon Review 15th - SWWIM 14th - Voidspace 13th - Rattle 12th - Flash Frog 11th - Milk Candy Review
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11 Dec 2023
RT @BenEhrenreich: I was brought up believing that being a Jew meant that you fight genocide, racism, and McCarthyism till your dying breat…
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9 Dec 2023
I was 99% the bottom right caricature was me until I saw this was dated 2022.
9 Dec 2023
This Thursday, @SalemAthenaeum bring back one of our favorite local lit events, WRITERS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, featuring Lit Fest alum @SaraAllen plus Jennifer L. Freed, @AuthorEEHolmes, Ben Mazer, Amjed McDonnell, Carla Panciera, and @ClayVentre.
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
5 Dec 2023
Congrats to Gemini Wahhaj for her debut novel with 7.13, our 29th book, which has received coverage in Publishers Weekly, Electric Lit, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and here in Ms. Magazine...
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
8 Dec 2023
Impossible to comprehend how, instead of supporting a ceasefire and humanitarian aid, our Congress is on a witch hunt against university presidents for their unwillingness to condemn the very idea of a Palestine.
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Sara Johnson Allen retweeted
8 Dec 2023
How can one be a citizen of the US—thus complicit in this absolute horror—without losing one’s mind or faith in humanity. I truly don’t know. I’m struggling.
8 Dec 2023
BREAKING: US vetoes UN resolution backed by many nations demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza apnews.com/article/israel-pa…
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