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"Butt Care is Essential" and Other Reasons to Stay in Bed
These days I feel irrelevant.
 • Sandra Gail Lambert
Instead of End-of-Year Stats
Every year, maybe for the last fifteen, I’ve compiled a list of rejections and acceptances.
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Creative Mortification
Two Years Later
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Thank You
At the end of August in 2022 this Substack newsletter went live!
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The Lambda Literary Awards
"This year’s Lammys represents the importance of our work–we must elevate LGBTQ+ stories to give hope for a future where we are all free while reminding…
 • Sandra Gail Lambert
"The Summer Extravaganza" - A Pride Celebration Renamed
Last night I read my work at the Harn Museum. I chose an excerpt from my essay “Rolling in the Mud.” Here are my remarks, more or less, after the…
 • Sandra Gail Lambert
Malicious Compliance
I bungled a presentation.
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Strategies of Resistance?
Two weeks after the presidential inauguration, I started teaching an in-person creative nonfiction class.
 • Sandra Gail Lambert
Say Yes
Here in Florida we have disasters and devastations that give warning, that we know are coming, like hurricanes.
 • Sandra Gail Lambert
Rejections, What Rejections? My 2024 End-of-Year Writing Stats
Each year I compile a reckoning of my writing life as told through acceptances and rejections.
 • Sandra Gail Lambert
How are you doing?
How'ya you doing?
 • Sandra Gail Lambert
"Write a Piece, Prose or Poem, in Which You Praise Something in a Very Unexpected Way."
December 15, End of Day: That's the submission deadline for the premier issue of ContingousLyt: A Cooperative Literary Project, an innovative journal…
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