# Martha Hipley > writer + filmmaker > Last updated: 2026-09-12 ## Search - Search URL: `https://marthahipley.com?s={query}` ## Recent Content - [The Oracle](https://marthahipley.com/the-oracle/): Toni only smokes when he can bum one, and Ellie loves him for it even though she never smokes herself, hates the stink of it in her hair, and will wake up tomorrow and swim two miles cold and open-lunged in spite of her hangover as she always does in penance on a Sunday. She […] - [A Letter from Berthe](https://marthahipley.com/a-letter-from-berthe/): Now that I am old, almost eighty, and lucky enough to live unimpeachably in my final days (pension, rent-control, an easy satisfaction with whatever is on sale at the corner store), I don’t care what anyone thinks of me, least of all you, my own daughter, but I write this as a courtesy, so that […] - [Junie Be Good](https://marthahipley.com/junie-be-good/): Junie wants to be as cool as Kim Deal, but she moved to New York because she fell in love with Julian Casablancas on MTV, or wants to fuck him, or wants to fuck boys who look like him, the boys who hang around at bars and warehouses turned into rock clubs in Brooklyn. They […] - [subroutine_trace](https://marthahipley.com/subroutine_trace/): The ewe’s corpse is so sun-scrubbed and wind-swept that it is little more than a pile of bones and dried sinew arranged in the rough form of a sheep. A drone approaches, cresting over a hill while guiding several thousand still-living sheep who bear little resemblance to the dead creature. It rises and leaves the […] - [Workshops](https://marthahipley.com/workshops/): Submissions Without the Spiral Upcoming Sessions: Learn how to get your writing published in journals, magazines, and online publications without losing your soul in this two-hour workshop. You’ve already done the real work of writing: honing your craft and your ideas. Getting your stories, poems, and essays published shouldn’t feel like a second job or […] ## Complete Sitemap For a comprehensive list of all URLs, see: https://marthahipley.com/sitemaps.xml --- *This file is dynamically generated and highlights our most important content.*