Megan Giddings
@megiddings.bsky.social
I wrote Meet Me at the Crossroads (Amistad 2025)The Women Could Fly (Amistad 2022) and Lakewood (Amistad 2020). Boss, I'm tired.
www.megangiddings.com
www.megangiddings.com
Hi CNF writers with a book, if you're interested in teaching a 1-1 for the next two to three years while you're hopefully working on your next book and want to live in the Twin Cities, please consider applying to be our next writer in residence: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Hi CNF writers with a book, if you're interested in teaching a 1-1 for the next two to three years while you're hopefully working on your next book and want to live in the Twin Cities, please consider applying to be our next writer in residence: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
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always such an excellent list and so excited to see @megiddings.bsky.social in there!!!
apps.npr.org/best-books/
apps.npr.org/best-books/
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
always such an excellent list and so excited to see @megiddings.bsky.social in there!!!
apps.npr.org/best-books/
apps.npr.org/best-books/
Honored to be included in The Washington Post's list of 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2025. I feel really lucky to have my writing so well-read by writers and thinkers I really admire: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Honored to be included in The Washington Post's list of 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2025. I feel really lucky to have my writing so well-read by writers and thinkers I really admire: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
If you are trying to answer this new york times quiz, yes, I was a youthful prodigy writing about East Germany and the Soviet Union in 2005
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If you are trying to answer this new york times quiz, yes, I was a youthful prodigy writing about East Germany and the Soviet Union in 2005
can't wait to pick up a book twenty years from now that is marketed as a 2025 period piece that has the opening line, "this was the winter of our epstein discontent."
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
can't wait to pick up a book twenty years from now that is marketed as a 2025 period piece that has the opening line, "this was the winter of our epstein discontent."
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Listen to @eshanisurya.bsky.social discuss the path to her debut novel, RAVISHING, over on the Debutiful podcast feed!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6IF9...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6IF9...
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Listen to @eshanisurya.bsky.social discuss the path to her debut novel, RAVISHING, over on the Debutiful podcast feed!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6IF9...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6IF9...
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NEW EPISODE:
Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mutualisms and climate grief/joy.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/kathryn-nuer...
Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mutualisms and climate grief/joy.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/kathryn-nuer...
Kathryn Nuernberger on Mutualism, Climate, and Finding Family at the End of the World
Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mu…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW EPISODE:
Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mutualisms and climate grief/joy.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/kathryn-nuer...
Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mutualisms and climate grief/joy.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/kathryn-nuer...
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“I’ve learned to be most interested in enjoying the process of making something emotionally true and honest.” In this week's #TenQuestions, @eshanisurya.bsky.social provides an inside look at the writing process for her debut novel, Ravishing, out now from Roxane Gay Books. More: at.pw.org/eshani
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“I’ve learned to be most interested in enjoying the process of making something emotionally true and honest.” In this week's #TenQuestions, @eshanisurya.bsky.social provides an inside look at the writing process for her debut novel, Ravishing, out now from Roxane Gay Books. More: at.pw.org/eshani
lol more people emailed about this than when I was longlisted for an award (also, hi, Shawn! I'm glad you enjoyed it!)
I just finished this on the plane and I just stared straight ahead for a full minute. I met Megan Giddings at a festival a few years and she one of the coolest ppl there. Im so sorry im just getting to her books cuz
JFC.
Imagine the Tuskeegee syphilis experiment was funded by big Pharma
JFC.
Imagine the Tuskeegee syphilis experiment was funded by big Pharma
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
lol more people emailed about this than when I was longlisted for an award (also, hi, Shawn! I'm glad you enjoyed it!)
honestly, you can probably learn more about the world from the rustlings of oak leaves, the spirit chimes made from bronze or bone or the drumming upon of dented pans in the now burned temple of Zeus than asking musty chatgpt but whatever!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
honestly, you can probably learn more about the world from the rustlings of oak leaves, the spirit chimes made from bronze or bone or the drumming upon of dented pans in the now burned temple of Zeus than asking musty chatgpt but whatever!!!
I was poor for a lot of my life. And so as everyone who’s poor or struggling in capitalism knows, it is the small treats. When they yell at us for spending on the avocado toast, I go the opposite way. I say, You’re working like a dog, you’re underpaid. Get the avocado toast. What’s the point?
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I was poor for a lot of my life. And so as everyone who’s poor or struggling in capitalism knows, it is the small treats. When they yell at us for spending on the avocado toast, I go the opposite way. I say, You’re working like a dog, you’re underpaid. Get the avocado toast. What’s the point?
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Quite late for spooky season, but nonetheless: behold my witchy rec list! Incl
🏝️ Handmaid’s Tale, but witches from @megiddings.bsky.social!
✂️ suffragette witches with @alixeharrow.bsky.social!
🧹 Fast and Furious with broomsticks via @mythjae.bsky.social!
🏝️ Handmaid’s Tale, but witches from @megiddings.bsky.social!
✂️ suffragette witches with @alixeharrow.bsky.social!
🧹 Fast and Furious with broomsticks via @mythjae.bsky.social!
10 Wonderful Witchy Reads - Every Book a Doorway
Aka some of my favourite stories about witches!
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Quite late for spooky season, but nonetheless: behold my witchy rec list! Incl
🏝️ Handmaid’s Tale, but witches from @megiddings.bsky.social!
✂️ suffragette witches with @alixeharrow.bsky.social!
🧹 Fast and Furious with broomsticks via @mythjae.bsky.social!
🏝️ Handmaid’s Tale, but witches from @megiddings.bsky.social!
✂️ suffragette witches with @alixeharrow.bsky.social!
🧹 Fast and Furious with broomsticks via @mythjae.bsky.social!
also, as someone who has spent the past decade saying before you get into a relationship with anyone, you should be allowed to read their actual reddit (not burner they use in front of you), I have been proven even more correct
October 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
also, as someone who has spent the past decade saying before you get into a relationship with anyone, you should be allowed to read their actual reddit (not burner they use in front of you), I have been proven even more correct
wild to be in dublin right now, where the rightwing politican running for president would probably be a popular democrat back home and hearing people say you would have to be out of your fucking mind to vote for martha & then to see the news back home is like a man can have a nazi phase as a treat
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
wild to be in dublin right now, where the rightwing politican running for president would probably be a popular democrat back home and hearing people say you would have to be out of your fucking mind to vote for martha & then to see the news back home is like a man can have a nazi phase as a treat
back in a lidl, immediately opening my phone and searching how get eu citizenship
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
back in a lidl, immediately opening my phone and searching how get eu citizenship
it was the bro what of times, it was the 4chan-firebrain of times
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
it was the bro what of times, it was the 4chan-firebrain of times
If you or someone you know is thinking about applying to MFA programs this year, at Minnesota we are fully funded for 3 years including covering your student fees, 1-1 teaching (mostly creative writing) with chances to teach in the summer, you can join the union, and live in a major city.
Interested in an MFA in Creative Writing? Join us Oct 15 or 20 to hear from faculty and students re: our fully funded, three-year program. Since 2019, our students and alums have published more than 70 books! Register:
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October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you or someone you know is thinking about applying to MFA programs this year, at Minnesota we are fully funded for 3 years including covering your student fees, 1-1 teaching (mostly creative writing) with chances to teach in the summer, you can join the union, and live in a major city.
this is why i've stopped reading 99% of the messages that have come through my website
October 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
this is why i've stopped reading 99% of the messages that have come through my website
Hey Nashville, I'll be reading and talking tomorrow morning at 10 AM in the State Museum! Hopefully see some of you there
October 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hey Nashville, I'll be reading and talking tomorrow morning at 10 AM in the State Museum! Hopefully see some of you there
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Reminder that RAVISHING is available for preorder and if you DO preorder you can get a special sticker sheet designed by @shebani. You can also add the book on GR, tell your local library/indie, and share this post! TIA for supporting this brown, chronically ill writer.
linktr.ee/eshanisurya
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Eshani Surya | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
RAVISHING, out from Roxane Gay/Grove Atlantic 11.11.2025! Preorder below! ⬇️
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October 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reminder that RAVISHING is available for preorder and if you DO preorder you can get a special sticker sheet designed by @shebani. You can also add the book on GR, tell your local library/indie, and share this post! TIA for supporting this brown, chronically ill writer.
linktr.ee/eshanisurya
linktr.ee/eshanisurya
One of my favorite things about writing is that I've gotten to read Eshani's works for years first as a short story writer and now as a novelist. Pre-order this one!
I absolutely loved @megiddings.bsky.social’s book LAKEWOOD and it hugely helped me figure out the way forward for writing BIPOC characters who are experiencing trauma due to strange products changing the body. This blurb means THE 🌎.
If you haven’t gone out and read Megan Giddings yet, go now!
If you haven’t gone out and read Megan Giddings yet, go now!
October 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
One of my favorite things about writing is that I've gotten to read Eshani's works for years first as a short story writer and now as a novelist. Pre-order this one!
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Billionaires are always inserting themselves into situations when it is unneeded or unwanted but when their influence could be useful, they aren’t around. Anyway. Mark Cuban is an IU alum. He could fund that student newspaper in perpetuity with pocket change. Or withhold institutional donations.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Billionaires are always inserting themselves into situations when it is unneeded or unwanted but when their influence could be useful, they aren’t around. Anyway. Mark Cuban is an IU alum. He could fund that student newspaper in perpetuity with pocket change. Or withhold institutional donations.
the relatable impulse to be your most annoying self online and call it creative marketing for your next novel
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
the relatable impulse to be your most annoying self online and call it creative marketing for your next novel
Support the student journalists at IDS and share their direct reporting on the situation: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Support the student journalists at IDS and share their direct reporting on the situation: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...