POETS & WRITERS &&

Exciting! I wrote an essay called IN PRAISE OF QUIET BOOKS for the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. It's avail only in print! And you can read my convo w/Silas House (one of my v fave writers) online here! You can also listen to me read the opening section of my essay on the Ampersand podcast!

I also wrote abt finding inspiration in period pieces and pretty dresses for WRITERS RECOMMEND! 

And so many lovely and kind bookstagrammers have been taking the prettiest pics of WHISKEY & RIBBONS! You can follow me in IG @leesacrosssmith and I try to keep up w/posting them bc they're beautiful and I love seeing them!

Dig the EVENTS page for where I'll be for the rest of April and May! SOKY book fest, Arkansas Lit Fest, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Quail Ridge and Flyleaf and Greensboro Bound in NC! If y're in or around these places, come say Hi! <3

JACK JONES LITERARY ARTS & GERMAN TRANSLATION OF WHISKEY & RIBBONS

SO STOKED to be working w/Kima Jones and her team @ JACK JONES LITERARY ARTS re: Whiskey & Ribbons. !! Read more abt the beautiful books in the current campaign and more abt Kima & Allison &&! 

AND! Also stoked to announce that W&R will be translated into German (print and audio) and published by Bastei Lübbe, the largest indie publisher in Germany. And both of these things are dreams come true for me! EXCITINGGGG! <3

MY DEBUT NOVEL WHISKEY & RIBBONS COMING SPRING 2018 FROM HUB CITY PRESS!

Thank you eversomuch to my agent Kerry D'Agostino & everyone @ Hub City! ---> OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! 

2017 So Say We All Literary Prize In Fiction

YAY! I am judging the SO SAY WE ALL LITERARY PRIZE IN FICTION and it's open from now until April 30! DEETS! 

@ Real Pants & Something Bright & Sweet

I talked to Bud Smith abt jobs/life/work over @ Real Pants!

My story OUT OF THE STRONG, SOMETHING SWEET is #1 on this Paper Darts list of 10 STORIES THAT BRIGHTENED THE DARKNESS OF 2016. Thank you Paper Darts!

My story DOWNRIGHT is up @ SPLIT LIP MAGAZINE.

"Kent reminded her of Jed and that's what was sexy about him. They were both pressed Oxford shirts and dress pants but she preferred to think of them smoking in dirty Carhartts, bending down and stretching up, fixing broken things."

My story OUT OF THE STRONG, SOMETHING SWEET is up @ Paper Darts!

"Our plan was to sneak out of Claire's bedroom window once her parents had gone to bed and meet the boys by the railroad tracks. We wanted to be out when the moon was full and high. Midnight. We weren't allowed to stay out past eleven. We'd been feeling dreamy all day, drunk on summer sun and tart strawberries and fizzy water. It was July and the day was dangerous; the word twenty-second made my mouth move like a kiss and a bite."

YOU CAN READ IT! And there are gorgeous illustrations by Jazzmyn Coker! xo 

I have a new story in a fancypants gorgeous print mag announcement coming soooon!

New Flash Fiction @ Blue Fifth Review!

My story LOW, SMALL is up @ Blue Fifth Review and thank you muchly to Sara Lippmann and Sam Rasnake for having me! 

"He was careful not to touch me, afraid I would scream. There were nights when I would’ve screamed and other nights when I would’ve let out an ocean-water sigh, a beckon, a beacon of sound. Low, small."