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Sarah Lejeune's fiction has been nominated for the UCLA 2021 Allegra Johnson Prize. Short fiction pieces were published in the newspaper the Topanga New Times, Lunch Ticket, the Antioch University Los Angeles literary journal and the 2018 winter Passager Journal. Several short fiction pieces were finalists for Glimmer Train awards.

The following links connect to writing available online

Short Fiction:

https://lunchticket.org/bruised-sage/ (2018)

https://topanganewtimes.com/2020/11/20/to-lose-a-mother/ (2020)

Non-fiction:

Photo-essay: https://topanganewtimes.com/2025/04/18/the-manroot/  (2025)

The spoken word and installation piece Handmade Histories created with colleague Polly Chu  was excerpted in Expanding Circles, Women, Art, and Community, 1996; Editor, Betty Ann Brown. Polly and Sarah were invited as guest artists at Smith, Wellesley, and Whittier Colleges, and Boston University.   The spoken word piece Stones was selected for performance at the 1999 National Women’s Caucus for Art.  She has written for two magazines - art reviews for Coagula Art Journal (Los Angeles), and poetry in the art sheet,  Alpha-Bete (Boston). She is completing her fist novel.

Sarah Lejeune is a fellow of The Virginia Center for Visual Art in Art, 1996 and Fiction, 2018. She workshopped her writing with writers x writers, UCLA extension writing program, Tom Jenks, and the late Al Martinez’s Topanga Writers Workshop.