Back in November, in honor of its eight-year-anniversary, Lip Service launched Badass, Lip Service: True Stories, the Double Album (Lominy Books, 2014) edited by Andrea Askowitz.  This anthology is acollection of some of the best of Lip Service’s first eight years. Lip Service is a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation award-winning organization and a Miami institution.

Badass recentry got a great review in Florida Book Review.  Bonnie Losak wrote, “The stories in Badass are effective, evocative, and accessible. They cover a wide array of subjects, ranging from an attempt to use Santeria to affect the outcome of a criminal trial in Miami to the rape of a heroin addict in New York City.”

Andrea Askowitz and I are both proud of this book! Thanks to the Florida Book Review, its editor, Lynne Barrett, and contributor Bonnie Losak for the badass review of Badass!

“The stories […] are effective, evocative, and accessible.” Bonnie Losak, Florida Book Review

Now, Lip Service wants YOUR story.

Give us your best, true, personal story.  The theme:  POWER! Tell us about a time you felt POWERFUL; a time you felt POWERLESS; a time POWER was subverted; a time the POWER went out. 

Please read our guidelines. They tell you what we’re looking for.