three six five: prompts, acts, divinations(an inexhaustible compendium for writing)

Lucy Ives

with drawings by Nick Mauss

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$25.00

A big discount, just for those in-the-know. Once we make the official, public announcement December 15, three six five will be listed here (everywhere) at its retail price of $36.

PLEASE NOTE that your much anticipated book will not ship for quite awhile. We’re aiming for January 2026. Fingers crossed.

THEREFORE, please place this order separately if you want to purchase any other siglio titles (and not wait a very long time for them): all books ship together when all books are available

 

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This is a secret announcement with a secret price—way, way, way ahead of publication in April 2026.

There are 365 exercises for writing in this book, but it is not simply a book of writing exercises.

three six five is a “how-to” book of questions—not answers. It is an ars poetica of expanding possibility, a tarot deck of acts instead of images, a book of bending hours, a diary of contemplation and imagination, an antidote to consumption in the shape of care and attention.

These prompts, acts, and divinations—in alchemical combinations with new drawings by Nick Mauss—invite both aspiring and experienced writers to learn and unlearn, to mine memory and forgetting, to enter impossible spaces and create new ways of telling time, to inhabit multiple, other, and conflicting perspectives, to discover the elasticity of language and its constraints, to write by drawing, walking, listening, and even by being distracted.

While this is an inexhaustible compendium for writing, it is also an enduring reservoir for those who have no desire to be(come) a writer. Many exercises take the form of play, encourage collaboration with friends, strangers, and non-human beings, and operate off the page, often in the world, in the spirit of discovery rather than result. All intend to nurture and cultivate possibility.

Tracing the lineage of Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit and Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, novelist, poet, and critic Lucy Ives offers encouragement, candor, and a deep appreciation for the vagaries, wonders, and challenges of a writing life.

And please do note, if you haven’t already: this is a preorder for a book that publishes next year. It will ship no earlier than January 2026! As soon as we know exactly when, we’ll let you know.

 

drawing by Nick Mauss, from three six five by Lucy Ives

see also

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The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use WordsA Madeline Gins ReaderMadeline Gins

Edited by Lucy Ives

Features

Feminist Poetics of the ArchiveA Forum at Tupelo Quarterly

Karla Kelsey, curator


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