Ripe Fiction pairs fiction with news stories. Yesterday, on International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, they published the shortest story I’ve ever written.
Archive for the ‘Fiction’ Category
The shortest story I’ve ever written
June 27, 2022Recuperating some history
May 16, 2022So Shepherd Books asked me to recommend five books that I could relate to my own obsessions and my novel Out of Place. I could have said so much more about these books (and added others), but the word limits were strict! https://shepherd.com/best-books/for-recovering-erased-history
New Anthology about Other Than Human Animals and Us
April 14, 2022I am so happy to see the third volume of Among Animals is now out from Ashland Creek Press, publishers of beautiful work about the environment and natural world. Thank you, Midge Raymond and John Yunker for including one of my stories. (And to Naomi Racz for publishing it first in Stonecrop Review). And to Rachel Harris who interviewed me about my story.
https://ashlandcreekpress.com/books/amonganimals3.html

SCHEDULE CHANGE! WRITERS WEEK FESTIVAL
February 14, 2022I hope some of you can join me Thursday, Feb 17th at 10:00 AM (Pacific time) when I’m honored to be paired, at the UCR Writers Week Festival, with Ibrahim Nasrallah, the internationally acclaimed Palestinian author who will be Zooming in from his home in Jordan. Here’s the link: Diane Lefer & Ibrahim Nasrallah – Crowdcast
(I posted a different link and hour a few days ago, showing me appearing for the 6:30 PM session. Programming an international festival can get tricky and the schedule had to be juggled at almost the last minute, so please disregard earlier notices.)
If you can’t make Thursday at 10 AM but do want to hear us, I believe Crowdcast will keep the video available on their website.
And while you’re at it, do check out the complete schedule for the Festival. All sessions are free and captioned and with ASL interpretation and each must be registered for separately.
Enjoy!
Diane
New Fiction
January 3, 2022Thank you, Scott Whitaker and Broadkill Review for publishing my story, “Unhappy Dido.” You can read it here.
Join Us on Wednesday?
October 25, 2021
Lisa and I will be talking about our creative influences and my novel, Out of Place, and her play, Alien Citizen.
There will be time for questions and comments from our virtual audience. The event will be archived and available online after Wednesday – but without the audience participation.
Of course it’s free. Register at https://whowritersread.com/events
Finally here
September 13, 2021Out of Place is now out in the world.
Read about it here: Out of Place (fomitepress.com)
The first review
September 6, 2021…is in. From M.C. Armstrong at The Wrath-Bearing Tree,