Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop
@pvww.bsky.social
Literary arts organization based in Western MA (and virtually), founded by writer @joybaglio.bsky.social! We host writing workshops, craft classes, readings, & events with authors of all genres!
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TOMORROW, Sunday 11/9 from 1-3pm ET! Join us at our 10-Month Manuscript Program Open House & Reading! Learn more / RSVP: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
Congratulations to @bhurley.bsky.social! We can’t wait to read this story.
Thrilled to have a short story, "Hairwork", in the new issue of @redividermag.bsky.social. It's about postpartum life and loss, Victorian hair art, grief and madness: redivider.emerson.edu/hairwork/
Hairwork – Redivider
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November 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Congratulations to @bhurley.bsky.social! We can’t wait to read this story.
TOMORROW, Sunday 11/9 from 1-3pm ET! Join us at our 10-Month Manuscript Program Open House & Reading! Learn more / RSVP: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
TOMORROW, Sunday 11/9 from 1-3pm ET! Join us at our 10-Month Manuscript Program Open House & Reading! Learn more / RSVP: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
Writing a book? Looking for a supportive, longer term program? Our 10-Month Manuscript Program might be for you! Join us at our virtual 11/9 Open House to learn more! RSVP + more info here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/manuscript-p...
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Writing a book? Looking for a supportive, longer term program? Our 10-Month Manuscript Program might be for you! Join us at our virtual 11/9 Open House to learn more! RSVP + more info here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/manuscript-p...
PVWW's November Newsletter is here! Lots of updates, including exciting news, book launches, and more from PVWWers and local authors (scroll to the end). Link to read here: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
November News: Upcoming Workshops, Events, Open House, and More!
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November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
PVWW's November Newsletter is here! Lots of updates, including exciting news, book launches, and more from PVWWers and local authors (scroll to the end). Link to read here: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
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This @somers.bsky.social story in @grantamag.bsky.social is so good.
New story by me in Granta today about inept swingers on the Hudson Valley granta.com/pleasantries...
Pleasantries
‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This @somers.bsky.social story in @grantamag.bsky.social is so good.
Just released! 🎉 Join us for virtual workshops, one-day and multi-week, reading events, and more this fall - start reading here: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
September 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just released! 🎉 Join us for virtual workshops, one-day and multi-week, reading events, and more this fall - start reading here: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
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Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉
On Saturday, we hosted Words Under the Stars, in Northampton MA! It was a FULL HOUSE! Thanks to all who attended, & to our phenomenal featured authors, who left us speechless: Allegra Hyde, Peter Medeiros, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Melenie Flynn, Yago Colas, Gail Thomas, & Joy Baglio. A magical night!
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
On Saturday, we hosted Words Under the Stars, in Northampton MA! It was a FULL HOUSE! Thanks to all who attended, & to our phenomenal featured authors, who left us speechless: Allegra Hyde, Peter Medeiros, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Melenie Flynn, Yago Colas, Gail Thomas, & Joy Baglio. A magical night!
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Loved hosting (and reading with) these incredible writers for the Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop fall literary reading, Words Under the Stars! Each reading was riveting. Thanks to all who joined us in Florence, MA!
September 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Loved hosting (and reading with) these incredible writers for the Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop fall literary reading, Words Under the Stars! Each reading was riveting. Thanks to all who joined us in Florence, MA!
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Just hosted our first Writing Retreat at Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop and it couldn’t have been more wonderful! Such a lovely group of writers, perfect weather, a gorgeous venue, what felt like infinite coffee (first time brewing a giant urn of it!) Feeling grateful for creative community!
September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Just hosted our first Writing Retreat at Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop and it couldn’t have been more wonderful! Such a lovely group of writers, perfect weather, a gorgeous venue, what felt like infinite coffee (first time brewing a giant urn of it!) Feeling grateful for creative community!
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This Saturday, 9/20, 7-8:30, join PVWW for a night of poetry, stories & literary magic under the fairy lights on the lawn of the Florence Civic Center in downtown Florence MA! Featuring a lineup of local authors - including Perugia’s own Gail Thomas. ✨🌟✨ @gthomaspoet.bsky.social @pvww.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This Saturday, 9/20, 7-8:30, join PVWW for a night of poetry, stories & literary magic under the fairy lights on the lawn of the Florence Civic Center in downtown Florence MA! Featuring a lineup of local authors - including Perugia’s own Gail Thomas. ✨🌟✨ @gthomaspoet.bsky.social @pvww.bsky.social
We'd love for you to take a few minutes to fill out our Community Survey! We want to know what our community wants to see more of - and we're offering 10% off any/all workshops for those who take a few minutes to share their thoughts!
Survey here: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
Survey here: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
May 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We'd love for you to take a few minutes to fill out our Community Survey! We want to know what our community wants to see more of - and we're offering 10% off any/all workshops for those who take a few minutes to share their thoughts!
Survey here: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
Survey here: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
TOMORROW, Friday 4/25, join us on Zoom for a 2-hour workshop on Landing Your Ending, with novelist (and Manuscript Program Instructor) @bhurley.bsky.social! For
anyone writing narrative prose and/or struggling with writing an ending!
anyone writing narrative prose and/or struggling with writing an ending!
Finding Your Ending | Pioneer Valley Write
Finding the right ending for your story might be the most difficult part of the writing process — we need to thread the needle with theme, magic, metaphor, and character, all without being too preachy...
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April 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
TOMORROW, Friday 4/25, join us on Zoom for a 2-hour workshop on Landing Your Ending, with novelist (and Manuscript Program Instructor) @bhurley.bsky.social! For
anyone writing narrative prose and/or struggling with writing an ending!
anyone writing narrative prose and/or struggling with writing an ending!
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Some REALLY exciting (Zoom) workshops on the horizon at @pvww.bsky.social: Tomorrow (5/25), Landing Your Ending with novelist @bhurley.bsky.social! And Saturday 5/3, Whiting Award-winner Elwin Cotman teaches the Japanese Four-Act Structure (Kishotenketsu)! Info & links to signup in the comments!
April 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Some REALLY exciting (Zoom) workshops on the horizon at @pvww.bsky.social: Tomorrow (5/25), Landing Your Ending with novelist @bhurley.bsky.social! And Saturday 5/3, Whiting Award-winner Elwin Cotman teaches the Japanese Four-Act Structure (Kishotenketsu)! Info & links to signup in the comments!
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Some thoughts on revision, for writers who struggle with or dread this part of the process - the key is to make it simple, routine, and somewhat technical!
April 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Some thoughts on revision, for writers who struggle with or dread this part of the process - the key is to make it simple, routine, and somewhat technical!
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14 Tips on Writing Speculative Fiction, by me, for all who write and dabble in the magical! Biggest thanks to the amazing writers quoted throughout for sharing their wisdom! Hope you enjoy! Read here: joybaglio.substack.com/p/14-tips-on...
14 Tips On Writing Speculative Fiction
that I'm constantly reminding myself of, and coming back to, again and again
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March 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
14 Tips on Writing Speculative Fiction, by me, for all who write and dabble in the magical! Biggest thanks to the amazing writers quoted throughout for sharing their wisdom! Hope you enjoy! Read here: joybaglio.substack.com/p/14-tips-on...
Fiction writers! Looking for a rigorous, feedback-centered workshop? Our 8-week Intermediate / Advanced Fiction Workshop with novelist @egjames.bsky.social begins 4/10! A few spots still open (limited to 8 writers). Live on Zoom. Financial aid available. Learn more: tinyurl.com/mw2z5cyr
April 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Fiction writers! Looking for a rigorous, feedback-centered workshop? Our 8-week Intermediate / Advanced Fiction Workshop with novelist @egjames.bsky.social begins 4/10! A few spots still open (limited to 8 writers). Live on Zoom. Financial aid available. Learn more: tinyurl.com/mw2z5cyr
PVWW Founder / Director Joy Baglio will be featured in this reading at @forbeslibrary.bsky.social in Northampton MA (also livestreamed)!
Coming up on March 12, at I'll be reading alongside brilliant, speculative-literary author Allegra Hyde at @forbeslibrary.bsky.social in Northampton MA! If you're in the Pioneer Valley area, I hope you join us! And if not, the event will be livestreamed on Youtube. (Links in the comments!)
Readers & Writers Live: Allegra Hyde and Joy Deva Baglio
Writers Allegra Hyde and Joy Deva Baglio will read and discuss their work as part of the Readers & Writers Live series.
About the writers:
Allegra Hyde is the author of the...
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March 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
PVWW Founder / Director Joy Baglio will be featured in this reading at @forbeslibrary.bsky.social in Northampton MA (also livestreamed)!
Call for essays, from emerging writers! Great opportunity!
I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager
THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...
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March 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Call for essays, from emerging writers! Great opportunity!
PVWW Founder @joybaglio.bsky.social has an article in
@pw.org, on creating your own writing retreat, with friends! It's a great issue, with lots of resources on writing retreats, and featuring author Karen Russell and her incredible new novel! Learn more / read here: tinyurl.com/4dd5kvjf
@pw.org, on creating your own writing retreat, with friends! It's a great issue, with lots of resources on writing retreats, and featuring author Karen Russell and her incredible new novel! Learn more / read here: tinyurl.com/4dd5kvjf
February 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
PVWW Founder @joybaglio.bsky.social has an article in
@pw.org, on creating your own writing retreat, with friends! It's a great issue, with lots of resources on writing retreats, and featuring author Karen Russell and her incredible new novel! Learn more / read here: tinyurl.com/4dd5kvjf
@pw.org, on creating your own writing retreat, with friends! It's a great issue, with lots of resources on writing retreats, and featuring author Karen Russell and her incredible new novel! Learn more / read here: tinyurl.com/4dd5kvjf
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Question for anyone who feels like contemplating this: How has your perspective of / relationship to your writing (and creativity in general) changed over the years?
February 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Question for anyone who feels like contemplating this: How has your perspective of / relationship to your writing (and creativity in general) changed over the years?
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The older I get, the more fun I'm determined to have in the writing process, no matter it's challenges. (Though also looking back, I had lots of fun as a child and teenager in the process. It's those young-adult years that ruined me, even though those years were part of the growth too. :)
February 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The older I get, the more fun I'm determined to have in the writing process, no matter it's challenges. (Though also looking back, I had lots of fun as a child and teenager in the process. It's those young-adult years that ruined me, even though those years were part of the growth too. :)
NEXT WEEKEND, February 16! Join @poetmercurio.bsky.social for a one-day virtual exploration of Deeper Writing Through Etymology! Learn more / sign up: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page...
February 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
NEXT WEEKEND, February 16! Join @poetmercurio.bsky.social for a one-day virtual exploration of Deeper Writing Through Etymology! Learn more / sign up: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page...
Our 2025 virtual workshop schedule is up! New classes (with award-winning authors) added regularly! Check it out here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/courses
February 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Our 2025 virtual workshop schedule is up! New classes (with award-winning authors) added regularly! Check it out here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/courses
A great writing prompts from @perugiapress.bsky.social!
Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection THE WORK OF HANDS by Catherine Anderson. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Anderson’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).
February 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A great writing prompts from @perugiapress.bsky.social!