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Hannah Grieco

@writesloud.bsky.social
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Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP she/they 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️ www.hgrieco.com

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Writer friends, before you hire a PR person or team, please ask for a sample email from a previous author campaign. Ask if they use AI. (Then check to see if they’re telling the truth.)

I get so many publicity emails and I ignore anything that feels fake or disingenuous or generic, which is already so often the case with most PR correspondence. But now the near constant AI slop makes it impossible to 1. care about the author or book and 2. tell the difference between a real request and a scam.

Please don’t waste your money. And don’t use AI for your own PR efforts. Your book is your art. It matters! Send it out into the world honestly. ❤️
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
See you in Chicago next year! @poeticmoni.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @zachpowers.bsky.social
Beyond the Big Five: Practical Visibility for the Independent Author

Most university and independent presses don't have the marketing budgets to land major reviews or retail placement, but that doesn’t mean you can’t sell your book! This panel brings together a National Book Award judge, an artistic director, an activist writer, and two indie bestsellers to discuss building a readership through library circuits, bookstore partnerships, grassroots touring, and more. Attendees will leave with specific, effective strategies for self-promotion.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
DC area friends, do any of you ever have time to write on Friday afternoons? I’m thinking about setting up shop in a coffee shop or bar in Arlington from 1-5 on Fridays this fall, in hopes that other writers will sometimes drop in and write with me for an hour or so whenever they can. Would anyone like the accountability of parallel writing? (No commitment. Just when you can!) 

I know most of you work all week. It’s just the one day that I’m not on campus!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Any Richmond friends on here? Would love a friend or two in the room!
Flying South Reading series flyer. Featuring me, Patrick Dacey, and Dustin King. Next Thursday 5/21 at Nest Realty, 221 S Robinson St, Doors at 7:30 and readings at 8.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
See the same description as the other pic! Only this time she's actively walking, followed by a super cute kitty who is blurry but appears to be gray or tan?
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A tall blonde middle-aged woman in glasses and a blue apron, green shirt, and jeans. She's holding a glass of white wine and standing with her other hand on her hip. A cat walks beside her. She's standing on the grass in a fenced-in yard.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Omg this email I just got. 😭
Thank you so much for being such a wonderful professor.

I learned so much from you, but most importantly, I learned honesty and dignity in writing, as well as confidence in my work. I used what I learned from you to write an admission essay for the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, and I got accepted.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I posted about this a while ago and then let all the things drop in the midst of <life>.

Do you need a cat or dog sitter in June or July? (Maybe August?) Preferably at least 45 min away from DC (but I'm open-ish to closer). Needs to be east of the Mississippi so I can get there relatively cheaply!

Last-minute panicking? Maybe I'm your girl!

I'll take half your normal pet sitter or kennel fee and, hopefully, get a big old round of novel revisions done.

HMU! <3
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I have a new poem out in Gargoyle! ❤️
First two stanzas of Triage:

When my grandfather was dying
in the hospital, a surgeon
stuck a tube in his back, vacuumed
out the extra fluid in his lungs, laughed
with the nurse about golf and football
while my grandfather screamed,
then sobbed, then breathed in crackling gusts
like dry branches catching fire.

The surgeon followed me into the hall,
pulled down his mask and said
Your grandfather is overreacting about the pain.
I was overreacting about the pain.
He was not going to be critiqued
by somebody who’d never held
a scalpel. It was not his fault
an old man was dying loudly.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A screenshot of X account @nashabichebi who tweeted LESS CHATGPT MORE LGBT!!!!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Got to celebrate a wonderful book from wonderful @zachpowers.bsky.social last night! Read this book, friends! And give my bud all his 🌸🌺🌼!
Zach and I, sitting in two chairs in a bookstore. Zach is wearing an orange graphic t and yellow long sleeve over it, with jeans and sneakers. He is holding a mic. I am wearing a brown sweater and jeans, also holding a mic, mid-question.The cover of Zach Powers’ novel The Migraine Diaries. A dark blue-gray background with a brain made up of a thousand small objects related to regular life.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Shout out to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for always letting me do my weird shit. ❤️
A classroom full of women holding up signs with my smiling face and name on them.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody.

Charles Darwin
Letter to J. D. Hooker
23rd June 1863
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
form.jotform.com/260766727796...
The Muslim Writers Resistance Lab Application 2026
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Who needs a professional headshot? NOT ME
Three writers sitting in front of a Fall for the Book backdrop. I am holding a mic and appear to snarling like a wild animal.A close up of my unhinged face. Shoulder length wavy brown hair. Black sweater. Mic in one hand. A snarling, frothing beast.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Spending the day in a hospital waiting room. (We’re okay.) Catching up on one of the many books I should have read decades ago. Who told me to read this again??
The cover of Raymon Carver’s collection “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I was playing that famous bi game “Do I love them or want to BE them?” And then sadly said, “Well I don’t think I could pull off this look anyway.” And my 18yo said, “Only one way to find out.” Then walked off like the nonchalant life coach they are.
A muscular person in a green vest and pants, wearing brown boots, wavy hair pulled back, tattoos on their arms, sitting on a stool.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This Wednesday! Our first book club meeting with The Writer's Center! Link to register in the comments. Free, on Zoom. Hear Alina Stefanescu read and ask her all your poetry questions! ❤
A flyer showing a photo of Alina Stefanescu, with long beautiful light borwn hair and a tan long-sleeved shirt. Also her book cover of My Heresies, and info about The Writer's Center Poetry Book Club. March 11th at 7PM online. Clickable link in the comments.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
If we only know each other online, this is what I look like. Come say hi if you see me! 🥰
A dork with shoulder length brown hair and glasses (sometimes) standing in the opening chaos of AWP setup.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Friends! I'll soon be stalking you and demanding hugs all over Baltimore. And I'll also be reading at a few events and signing books on Thursday! Please find me or DM me or tag me! ♥️
Stanchion reading on Wed night at 8pm at Vinyl & Pages. 301 Light St PavilionSplit Lip reading and benefit on Thursdayat 7pm. Info at charmlitmag.orgA cat reading! Yes! Sat at 7pm at Meander Bar at 1801 E Lombard St.I'll be signing books on Thursday at 2pm at the Stanchion Booth. #434
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We had a schedule change! Our first poet will be @alinaetc.bsky.social!!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm working with The Writer's Center on two new book clubs that focus on independent authors and presses!! We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions! Read with us!
The Writer's Center Book Club: Register at writer.org/book-clubPoetry Online on 2nd Wednesdays, starting March 11th.

Fiction in person on 3rd Sundays, starting April 19th.TWC book club is no run-of-the-mill book club. Visiting writers will read excerpts and join the discussion, and answer your questions about craft, process, the publishing industryWant to read amazing books, build community, and meet small press writers? Join the book club!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I love him.
https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2011%252F12%252F08.html
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Hey, is there any chance that I could find this account from Reddit from 16 years ago? This anonymous person changed my life and I have thought them regularly since. Ridiculous. But thought I'd try.
A reddit profile: Schmeelkster
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Last day to write. It's been a wildly productive and restful week, even as I watched horrible things happen from afar. This timeline is chaos but I will grab every quiet moment.
Sunset over still water with the outline of a bare tree. Geese in the distance. A fire in the fireplace, with a laptop and pad of paper and bottle of beer.A porch at the beginning of sunset. The sun is blazing on the water. Trees frame the wide green yard.The desk! A clean, bare room with a beautiful wooden writing desk.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Well this is cool!! 🥰 Thanks, @xraylitmag.bsky.social and @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social. 🥹♥️
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
❤️
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Aw, this got nominated for Best Small Fictions! Thanks, @wigleaf.bsky.social! 🥹🥰 wigleaf.com/202505nina.htm
The first paragraph of "Nina Parker Chooses Nymphomania"
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
But my parents think I look depressed. So here's another:
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This feels amazing, no lie.
A hand holding up a long ponytail of brown hair that was just cut from my head!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Why am I like this?
Me at a bookstore event. I am sitting in a yellow chair. My long brown hair is in a ponytail. I'm wearing a beige sweater. I am holding a mic and speaking into it either about my book or about some cosmic wrong that's been done. My other hand is raised above my head like a preacher. I look HIGHLY ANIMATED.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is so cool. 😭 lithub.com/100-notable-...
Lit Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025For the full text description of my book "First Kicking Then Not," go to
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Who here lives in the Bronx, Westchester, <waves hands at the general area north of Manhattan>? Come hang tomorrow night!! ❤️
The Mount Kisco Reading Series, Nov 14th at 7PM at 141 Main Street, Mount Kisco, NY. Free, featuring a ton of amazing writers (plus me)!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
NY, this is going to be so weird and good! 2PM Sun at a chill little place right off the street. Come hang with @raxkingisdead.bsky.social, @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social, @saralippmann.bsky.social, @camilleuadams.bsky.social, @katetooley.bsky.social, @michelleghenry.bsky.social, and me. ❤️
A flyer that says "Street Side Lit Reading" and all of our names. Nov 16 at 2PM at "Store Front West." 367 E. 10th Street, NY NY 10009
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Friends! I'll be up near Westchester this Friday night, in Connecticut Saturday night, and the East Village Sunday afternoon. Please come? 🙏❤️
Mount Kisco reading series on Nov 14th at 7pm. 141 Main Street. Free!Come hang with me and Adrian Dallas Frandle at Obodo Serendipity Books on Nov 15th at 4pm! 3588 Main St, Stratford Connecticut A great lineup at 367 E 10th St, NY NY on Nov 16th at 2pm!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Also, thank god for the rest of you icons.
A girl with sunglasses, standing out in a crowd by holding up a sign that reads "ICE EATS FARTS"
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
15% off until Oct 31!$5 off for federal workers with the code FEDWORK5
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
DC friends! Free workshop and reading at Solid State! More info and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/wwph-prese...
A flyer with a ton of info, all much easier to explain via the link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wwph-presents-americas-future-literary-salon-tickets-1797443906109?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Mine is now older. I miss her unhinged art 😭
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
2nd grade teacher: Draw what you'll be when you grow up! My kid:
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
NY friends, come hang November 16th! @camilleuadams.bsky.social @michelleghenry.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social
A flyer for a street side lit reading, featuring Camille U. Adams, Michelle Guerrero Henry, Aubrey Hirsch, Rax King, Sara Lippmann, Kate Tooley, and me! It shows the covers of our books and includes info about the reading: November 16 at 2pm at "Store Front West" (367 E 10th St, NY NY 10009)
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Look who i found 🥹 @kcmeadbrewer.com 💕
Beautiful Kate, wearing a green Hawaiin shirt and making a silly face. And me, grinning, with long brown hair and a beige sweater.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is my favorite photo that I've ever taken. 🥰
A long classroom table, with a line of students writing in notebooks. Each one has a copy of my book "First Kicking, Then Not" next to them.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Baltimore friends! Tonight! 🥰
Baltimore reading with Mess and Friction tonight. Fadensonnen 3 W 23rd St. 7pm.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Did you all know about the tarantulas that keep pet frogs??
A giant, furry, fanged spider and a tiny little frog. Just hangin'.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ever considered an essay intensive? Come learn more and ask questions! 2 BIPOC scholarships available! writer.org/event/virtua...
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Come hanggggg Chatting up @alinaetc.bsky.social @adrianf.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social and more! ❤️
New tour dates in Arlington VA, DC, online. NYC, Connecticut, and Takoma Park!
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