The Debutante Ball

Seven debut authors. Seven books. One big dance toward publication.

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Author: Lara Lillibridge

Lara Lillibridge sings off-beat and dances off-key. She writes a lot, and sometimes even likes how it turns out. Her memoir, Girlish, available for preorder on Amazon, is slated for release in February 2018 with Skyhorse Publishing. Lara Lillibridge is a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College’s MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. In 2016 she won Slippery Elm Literary Journal’s Prose Contest, and The American Literary Review's Contest in Nonfiction. She has had essays published in Pure Slush Vol. 11, Vandalia, and Polychrome Ink; on the web at Hippocampus, Crab Fat Magazine, Luna Luna, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, and Airplane Reading, among others. Read her work at www.LaraLillibridge.com
  • Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2018Tuesday, August 28, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

It Is Now Safe to Exit the Ride

A few weeks ago my kids and I went to Cedar Point, which claims to be the roller coaster capital…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2018Tuesday, August 21, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

This Blooper Reel is Disappointing

    I didn’t really have a blooper reel for Girlish. I invented a word, “gack-worthy” which I used in…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2018Monday, August 13, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

A Tale of Two Launches

I had two launch parties for Girlish—one in my hometown of Rochester, NY, and one in my current town, Cleveland.…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, August 7, 2018Tuesday, August 7, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

The Manuscripts In Lara Lillibridge’s Drawer

  I write a lot. I devote the majority of every day to writing, reading, and editing. (It really helps…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2018Tuesday, July 31, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

Mama, Mama, Only Mama! Lara Lillibridge Discusses Book 2

Stories, Blogs, and Hacked Recipes for the Newly Single Mother Being a single mother means relaxing your cleanliness standards. A…

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  • Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2018Saturday, July 28, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

Interview with Rebecca Fish Ewan and GIVEAWAY

I’m so excited to introduce everyone to Rebecca Fish Ewan, author of By the Forces of Gravity. I met Rebecca last year…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2018Tuesday, July 24, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

Research in Memoir

  On the one hand, it’s easy to discount the need for research in memoir. I mean, who knows your…

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  • Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2018Monday, August 6, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

Interview with Terese Mailhot and GIVEAWAY for Heart Berries

I am so excited to welcome Terese Marie Mailhot to the blog today, and introduce her and her searingly beautiful…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018Monday, July 16, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

If You Can Visualize It, It Can Be Yours—Or Maybe Not

I held a story in my chest and this story breathed when I breathed, and it flowed through my veins…

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  • Posted on Saturday, July 14, 2018Saturday, July 14, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

In Which Lara Lillibridge raves about RED: A CRAYON’S STORY

I am breaking with the interview format today because I am so completely nuts over RED by Michael Hall, a 40-page…

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