Lauren Markham

So excited to hang out with @billmckibben.bsky.social and anyone who wants to join us. Tomorrow, 4pm Pacific.

Applications are due April 1st and there are still a few spaces left; we want to fill them with committed writers working on important projects. Is this you, or one of your friends, or colleagues, or students? Spread the word !
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Storyboard is the space I wish I'd had when writing my first book (and second... and even third.) The residency will involve craft talks, generative workshops, focused time to write, as well as time to connect and co-conspire with fellow artists & thinkers & cultural agitators.

Last year, our first, Storyboard welcomed historical fiction writers, journalists working on their first books, academics hoping to turn their dissertations into works for the wider public, memoirists wanting to deepen their texts with research, and more. www.stmarys-ca.edu/storyboard-r...

Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction Back in 2017, White House Press Secretary Kellyann Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” to describe realities that were inconvenient to the first Trump Administration. Eight years later, as…

We created Storyboard for writers working in any genre on what we think of as fact based creative projects––that is, projects in which research, language, art and fact co-mingle to reckon with the urgent concerns of the world as it is, was, or will be. (More on that here: lithub.com/truth-power-...

Just a few more weeks to apply to Storyboard, a week-long writers residency in Moraga, CA this June. The animating ethic behind the Storyboard Residency is that writing, however feeble the written word can feel at times, is indeed of great social purpose.

www.stmarys-ca.edu/storyboard-r...

In the new issue of The Believer, I write about political cult leader and prototype for Q-Anon-level conspiracies, Lyndon LaRouche -- and my dad's many tangles with him in the court of law.

The Believer is doing such good work these days, and I'm honored to be a part of it. Subscribe! Support!

I've been beating this drum for years. But i no longer need to do much to convince ppl here at home. We’ve all seen it with our own eyes now: the lengths authoritarian leaders will go to criminalize -- or even kill -- anyone who tries to undermine their campaigns of violence.

anti-immigrant political campaigns aren't just tools to win votes; this rhetoric helps build the foundations of full authoritarian control. When the state legally and physically goes after immigrant defenders, it is clear that no one is safe

The Fourth Wall Recently, reports of illegal “pushbacks”–an illegal practice of forcibly returning refugees from whence they came–in Greece have soared. Tommy Olsen faces years in prison for documenting pushbacks onl...

Last year, I wrote about Tommy Olsen of the Aegean Boat Report -- an organization that tracks illegal refugee pushbacks by the Greek authorities-- and Greece's campaign to cast him as a criminal for his watchdog work. They've now issued a warrant for his arrest.

inthesetimes.com/article/gree...

Thank you for reading and for the kind words and for striking xoxo Sending all my love to you and MN

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The Olive Oil Crisis

"The Olive Oil Crisis," a story by @laurenmarkham.bsky.social published in @bloomberg.com, is Editorial and Communications Program Coordinator Katherine Jossi’s selection for the 2025 #PulitzerStaffPicks.

👉 bit.ly/YIStories25

Our first-ever Sports Issue is coming soon! Featuring
@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.

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Thank you so much! I'm so glad you're liking it.

We’re celebrating 40 years of publishing and supporting our literary community with our good friends @litquake.org + Mechanics’ Institute + Daniel Handler + @laurenmarkham.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social

Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry
Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF

A bold approach Writer and editor Lauren Markham introduces her print-only ‘organizing pamphlet-meets-literary magazine’ The Approach tonight at City Lights

The second issue of The Approach, a new print-only newspaper full of heavy-hitting Bay Area bylines, is out today.

Our biz reporter @cydhayes.bsky.social chatted with editor @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to get the details:

Edge of Paradise | Broadcast In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.

"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future."

@laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

I’ve had the opportunity to interview fabulous executives, nonprofit leaders, and writers over the years. I’m always impressed when @billmckibben.bsky.social speaks about our fragile earth and solar energy. @laurenmarkham.bsky.social did an excellent job moderating tonight’s talk in #SanFrancisco!

Thank you for coming! 🧡

ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers Investigators traced the remittances an immigrant was sending from Hawaii to Mexico to figure out his location.

Civil liberties advocates have warned about this for years: an ICE agent used data about remittances to Mexico to track down an immigrant, solely on a charge of unauthorized reentry — not money laundering or any other crime often used to justify such surveillance theintercept.com/2025/08/21/i...

This is part of the greater war on education and expertise that’s ongoing. A professional class of law enforcement is anathema to the people in power who want blunt weapons with which to beat the undesirables, not people who can think, and question, and refuse.

Michael sits down with journalist @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to unpack her fascinating piece in The Guardian on Italian towns offering homes for €1. Are Americans falling for a fantasy, or is the life swap dream real?
Listen to the #podcast here 🎧➡️ loom.ly/lol3Ljw

Lawyers question legality of Alligator Alcatraz, ask federal judge to intervene “This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,” pl...

“‘This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,’ they argued.”

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

New Tool: DetentionReports.com Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool providing real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.

New Tool: Detention Reports Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities

Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool w/ real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-tool-d...

Thank you!!!

You’re the best 😘💕

A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and I couldn’t be happier about it 🧡

Although you can see the natural regrowth beginning around Evia, Father Christos acknowledges that for many young people, the struggle that awaits in the fields is no longer worth their while. Image by Myrto Papadopoulos. Greece, 2025.

An olive grove in Greece’s Mesogeia region. Image by Myrto Papadopoulos. Greece, 2025.

The old ways are still in use. Here, an olive grower picks the fruiting crop from the trees, then gathers them from her net into a bucket, preparing to screen them and remove any leaves, twigs or dirt. Image by Myrto Papadopoulos. Greece, 2025.

Olive farmers are noticing the effects climate change is having on their harvest, and many foresee a struggling future.

Grantee @laurenmarkham.bsky.social traveled to #Greece to find out how rising temperatures are affecting these ancient crops.

Story for @bloomberg.com.
👉 bit.ly/40FDJfZ

Robyn, our indefatigable production editor, is loving IMMEMORIAL by @laurenmarkham.bsky.social and published by @transitbooks.bsky.social