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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Decided to take a little writing/querying break for sanity reasons this summer but look what came today!

Story by Lara henneman Hell is a Bathroom in Berlin

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is your annual reminder that you can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart 🎶🔥

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

One time I ran down a mountain in Romania away from men and bears. Read my new essay, "The Time I Chose the Bear,' in the Spring issue of Watershed Review. Man or bear? IYKYK. Bear, every time. watershedreview.com/nonfiction/l...

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The Time I Chose the Bear – Watershed Review

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Sometimes I have to remind myself that writers are artists too. Even aspiring authors that have been trying to publish a novel for five years!

Woman standing in front of a sign that says "I am an artist"

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"Writing music is like plucking the stories out of the air. The songs are there whether you find them or not." -Gavin Rossdale, live at the Anthem 4/9/26

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Excited to have my dark little story, Hell is a Bathroom in Berlin, featured in this upcoming anthology. Check out the Kickstarter link to support/ pre-order. 🔥🖤

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Can't wait to see #ProjectHailMary tonight because 1) I loved the book and 2) I get to go on a date with my husband, who alas, is not Ryan Gosling but is still a ten to me. #amwatching #amreading

Poster for project hail Mary featuring Ryan Gosling

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I've been a @ricksteves.bsky.social fan since my college backpacking trip through Eastern Europe with one of his guides in hand. Just finished his latest travelogue of his 1978 trip on the "hippie trail" from Istanbul to Kathmandu-a great read, full of rich anecdotes and lovely photos. #amreading

Picture of kashmiri lake over handwritten journal

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I don't have writers block I have publishing block. #amwriting #amquerying

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Oh cool, it's 3 AM. Let me count my worries. (Me, every night)

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Best book I've read recently, a tumultuous, poignant picture of 90s conflict in Colombia that challenged a lot of my presuppositions. Highly recommend. #indiepick #amreading

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

"we were born for each other—to find one another, play with one another, make new things together, sit here together." Read this by @annasplat.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...

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Come sit with me in the empty theater

A note on ambition as the old world breaks.

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The East Coast snow storm feels like tears from Minneapolis.

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Truly enjoyed this near-future sci fi tome by @nealstephenson.bsky.social on the possibilities and complications of #geoengineering our planet cooler. Radically disparate narrative threads all came together in a certified banger of an ending. 🌎 🔥 #amreading #scifi

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Just saw that this is today! Will be participating later

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Genuinely obsessed with the design of Arundhati Roy's new memoir, featuring her present self gazing upon her younger self. 🪞 #amreading #bookcover

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Just got an acceptance for a piece I've been trying to place all year! So thrilled. Small victories! #litmags #writersky

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

IMHO you should not hit up writers for money after you've denied them for residencies... #hottake #writertok

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

That time I got to meet the amazing @vanessawalters.bsky.social! Honored to be featured in this post by @awpwriter.org repping @penparentis.bsky.social. The Pen Parentis weekly accountability groups help keep me on track and build valued relationships with other writer-parents.

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

FANTASTICLAND X FIERCE JUNGLE Disaffected Gen Z heroine goes from fighting boredom to fighting to survive when active shooters take over the derelict amusement park where she works. #wippit #a #na #t

A dark background with the title Candyland and the following text- People always talk about “getting chills” when they’re scared, but right now my terror would burst into flames if I let it.

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Man this album was a work of ART. Still hits so hard! #creativeinspiration

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🌟 THE LAST SESSION X HOLLYWOOD PARK 🌟 A cult survivor turned social worker inherits a surprise parcel of land. Only problem? It's still occupied by the abusive fundamentalist group that raised her...and they're not giving up without a fight. 🌲🔪🩸♀️CULT DAUGHTER #questpit #a #t #q

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The title made me choose it, could NOT resist. A fun read, especially 🖤 the Cannibal King novella included in this #horror collection by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social

Photo of Teenage girls can be demons book

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Just got a rejection from an agent I queried THREE years (and two manuscripts) ago lol #amquerying #laughsoyoudontcry

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I submitted to the @Uncharted_Mag_ Novel Excerpt Prize! Publication + $3k! Details here: www.unchartedmag.com

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Home - Uncharted

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

For anyone #querying a thriller or suspense novel rn, this list is a goldmine- thrillerfest.com/pitchfest/pa...

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2026 Agents/Editors

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Having a pretty good day so thought I'd take it down a notch or five with some #querying

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I am now officially querying two books 🤹🏻 Not sure if I need a high-five or a hug

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Guys did you know if you check your email a million times a day it does NOT get agents to write back any faster? My continued experiments bear this finding out.

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Received a 'no' from a prestigious #litmag saying my piece "interested them more than most," which is so so funny. Like, this was better than most of the crap we get but still no. 🤭🪭

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Usually I listen to audiobooks in the car only but this beauty of a mystery by @amyjordanbooks.bsky.social had me listening at all hours, the audio equivalent of an absolute page turner. #amreading #thrillers

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Musk is censoring the following information: The US Social Security commissioner is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. “This move would immediately begin halting benefits payments for millions of Americans.” archive.ph/1SiaC

Acting Social Security head consults with Justice Dept. on threat to close agency
Leland Dudek argues that a ruling blocking Elon Musk's cost-cutting team from access to sensitive taxpayer data could apply to all employees.

Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner at the SSA, said that the judge's order could apply to any SSA employees, Bloomberg News reported. "As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems," the report quoted Dudek as saying.
He also said his antifraud team and IT staff could be considered DOGE affiliates. "Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency," Dudek said, according to the report.

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Holy guacamole 🥑 I won a MD State Arts Council Grants for Artists! I'm so used to getting "no's" from grants/ fellowships that I had to read the email 5 times before it sunk in. It's $2500 to support living expenses for artists and I won it for my fiction writing. Every little bit counts!

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Theo 🧀 @sainttheosylas.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

NEEDLEHEART Between Two Fires X INDIKA X Educated An acolyte on a suicide mission that would usher in the end times loses her faith as she experiences the outside world. 🌘Dark Celestial Fantasy 🌠Medieval Horror ☀️Religious Guilt #Sludgepit #WIP #H #DF

A series of religious and cosmic images on a black background: A tied up lamb, a hand clutching needles, an eclipse, a meteor swarm, and an ashamed looking nun. Additionally, there are two quotes: 'You fucked up, and I said sorry. with the word sorry repeating over and over, and 'Unwanted Child'

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Lorraine Birnita @lorrainebirnita.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

FOURTH WING + ACOTAR In a realm of monsters, humans are food. A human princess on the hunt 4 the last dragon eggs must fight 4 survival and save her people while trying not to lose her heart to the vampire prince who craves not only her blood but her soul. #questpit #NA #RF #W

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H. L. Docherty (Updates Only) @hldocherty.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS x THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES for any #LitAgents who have the following on their MSWL: 🥀 Forbidden Love 🥀 Family Feuding/Messy Family Dynamics 🥀 Mental Health Rep 🥀 Queer-Norm World 🥀 He Falls First 🥀 Dystopian NA Fantasy 🥀 Strong FMC / Soft MMC #QuestPit #Q #NA #F #R

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Keren Dibbens-Wyatt @honeycombhermit.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A golem made of spent bullets and shrapnel has a question, but can anyone on earth answer it? If she leaps to the stars, will she receive the solace of a reply there? Poignant Christian #PB for older children and adults who also wonder, “Why?” #CF #A #Q #QuestPit #Faith

digital art by Julien_Blot on Pixabay of a giant robot/golem

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Andi is 🏳️‍⚧️ RE-DRAFTING DESECRATE 🏳️‍⚧️ @andromedaexists.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

ALL FOR THE GAME × THE FALL OF ICARUS × MY HERO 🪶 trans men's wrongs 🪶 destroying the fascist corpocracy 🪶 explicitly autistic characters 🪶 what the horseshoe crabs doin? 🪶 tattoos as therapy 🪶 toxic gays 🪶 we were here before your laws and we will be here after them #P #A #DF #QuestPit

a photo of my holding a hardcover of ΔΆΙΟΣ in front of the Newport Aquarium with white text that reads Newport Aquarium.

a moodboard for ΔΆΙΟΣ with a bunch of images that give a general revolution and overthrowing the government vibe.

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Mariah Stillbrook @mariahstillbrook.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's 1996 and 18 yo Roxy just tragically lost the love of her life. All she wants is to escape her small midwest town, but in a twist of fate, starts working at an antique store where she meets Betsy, a mannequin who will change her life, and the town, forever. #questpit #H #A #F #Q

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kay @kswrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

ADDIE LARUE x TVD - vampires hiding their fangs - a lost god searching for identity - power-hungry gangs and dubious detectives - morally grey protagonist - regretting (?) what you wished for - realising what you truly are - in the speculative underbelly of Taipei #QuestPit #Q #A #F #UF

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DH Strange @dhstrange.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE FIFTH ELEMENT x HOT FUZZ w Eleanor Shellstrop After a job gone wrong, data thief Enmity and space cop Mirek end up handcuffed together, at the center of a political coup, and on the run from space thugs, disco-dancing assassins...and catching feelings for one another. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

Eight images total. First column, three images, top to bottom: the planet Jupiter, a colourful alleyway with wet pavement and purple and blue lighting, a spaceship flying across the sky with a red trail. Second column, two images, top to bottom: a M/F couple kissing under red light, the words “We can be heroes just for one day” in neon yellow lights. Third column, three images, top to bottom: two disco balls hanging from ceiling, a ringed planet in purple and blue neon lights, a couple in space suits holding hands on a rocky terrain.

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leila @handle.invalid · 12/02/2025

lesbian psychological horror with 🥩queer obsession&psych dynamic of hannibal 🫀girlhood&female desire of the lamb 🥀cannibalism as family trauma of bones and all 🔪unreliable narrator of eileen 🪦mommy issues&eating disorder exploration of milk fed (ft meta board w inspo) #QuestPit #W #A #H

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