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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 11d

Every Friday in October, we invite you to explore the depths of creative horror, from the existential to the bone chillingly supernatural. We’ll draw from several different texts including Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Octavia Butler, and many more.

Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 13d

My writing group, Lemon Grove Writers, is doing a free Halloween writing series in October. Prompts, rec reading, co-writing sessions, and an open mic! It's freeee. Sign up!
lemongrovewriters.com/spooky

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 9d

"I spent hours in my bedroom practicing my banter, explaining the nuance of each of my lines, and making sure to perfect the sullen, distant look in my eyes."

New issue of my favorite writer's advice series is out!
tinyurl.com/bdutdrxf

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 9d

New from The Variety Pack! In conversation with Variant Editor @williamjcagle.bsky.social,
@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social discusses the strange possibilities of fiction from their forthcoming collection The Museum of Future Mistakes from @boa-editions.bsky.social

variantlit.com/the-museum-o...

The Museum of Future Mistakes: An Interview with James R. Gapinski

James R. Gapinski is the author of the novella Edge of the Known Bus Line, as well as the forthcoming short story collection, The Museum of Future Mistakes, which won the 2024 BOA Short Fiction Pri…

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 11d

Every Friday in October, we invite you to explore the depths of creative horror, from the existential to the bone chillingly supernatural. We’ll draw from several different texts including Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Octavia Butler, and many more.

Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 13d

My writing group, Lemon Grove Writers, is doing a free Halloween writing series in October. Prompts, rec reading, co-writing sessions, and an open mic! It's freeee. Sign up!
lemongrovewriters.com/spooky

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 13d

My writing group, Lemon Grove Writers, is doing a free Halloween writing series in October. Prompts, rec reading, co-writing sessions, and an open mic! It's freeee. Sign up!
lemongrovewriters.com/spooky

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 14d

Write with nice strangers over zoom! Not as weird as it sounds!

Our next sprint is: Saturday, September 27th, 2025
11 AM Central / 12 PM Eastern / 9 AM Pacific

Sign up at lemongrovewriters.com

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · Aug 27

"All my talent is in waiting for small eggs to hatch—
a treasure I cannot touch.
The babies are so translucent you can see their dreams.
Shell-memory; soft belly full of worm.
What's unraveling is my ambition for more."

- "Ars Poetica" by Megan Nichols (@megjnic.bsky.social)

Ars Poetica — Susurrus

www.susurrusthemagazine.com

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Jul 21

This August! A month of summer-movie inspired writing prompts. It's free and fun and begins August 2nd!
Considering signing up!
lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies

Summer At The Movies! A Writing Practice Inspired by Classic Summer Films

Every Saturdays in August, we’ll revisit an iconic summer movie and send you writing prompts throughout the week inspired by its characters, mood, and unforgettable scenes.

lemongrovewriters.com

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Aug 1

Lemon Grove Writers has collected all of our Writing Sprint prompts into a PDF and all sales made in August will be sent to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.

lemongrovewriters.com/products/pro...

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thrilled to have a micro in @susurrusmag.bsky.social about the things we carry, and trees, of course. Thank you to @jekwriter.bsky.social and @writertammyevans.bsky.social for their feedback.

www.susurrusthemagazine.com/crown-shyness

Crown Shyness — Susurrus

www.susurrusthemagazine.com

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Aug 17

Very honored to have my poem Ars Poetica included in Issue Twelve of Susurrus. Looking forward to spending the rest of my morning reading the incredible work of the other contributors.

Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · Aug 17

Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt.

View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve

📸: Malcolm Glass

Featuring: Malcolm Glass, Azul, D Bedell, Emma Bolden, Mark Blaeuer, B.C. Brock, Nicole Brogdon, Christa Fairbrother, Elisheva Fox, Marianna Gibson, Matthew Hand, William Hawkins, Patrick Holian, Tyler Jagt, L. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Gabby Kiser, Pamela Manasco, Marshall Moore, Anne Myles, Claire Nelson, Jeff Newberry, Megan Nichols, Sean Sexton, Chelsea Stickle, and Lisa Zerkle

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Aug 17

Very honored to be included!

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Aug 1

Susan is such a kind poet- this lifted my spirits so much. What are you reading today? I suggest Dressing the Bear, a profound collection: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Aug 1

Sarah Stockton ✨

from THE SCARECROW OF MY FORMER SELF (MoonPath Press)

Day 1 - #SealeyChallenge

@sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Survival Plan

make a scarecrow of self-worth
from bloodied dancing shoes, a mask
and a sea green bathing suit; call it
silly, call it profound, call it regret
learn to dance in the wind despite
all corporeal limitations

so what if the crows ignore you?
this is the daily practice-trade

the desire for a hundred journeys
for bare usefulness, even joy
lean toward the straw gold sun
bow in the snow and rain
send out no invitations, decline
all requests, stay vigilant above
the invisible field where hope grows—
this will be the scarecrow's task

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Aug 1

Lemon Grove Writers has collected all of our Writing Sprint prompts into a PDF and all sales made in August will be sent to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.

lemongrovewriters.com/products/pro...

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Jul 21

This August! A month of summer-movie inspired writing prompts. It's free and fun and begins August 2nd!
Considering signing up!
lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies

Summer At The Movies! A Writing Practice Inspired by Classic Summer Films

Every Saturdays in August, we’ll revisit an iconic summer movie and send you writing prompts throughout the week inspired by its characters, mood, and unforgettable scenes.

lemongrovewriters.com

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Jul 11

Free cowriting session with prompts tomorrow, Saturday, July 12th – 11 AM Central / 12 PM Eastern / 9 AM Pacific

RSVP: lemongrovewriters.kit.com/writingsprint

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Tabitha Dial, North Star Muse @tabithadial.bsky.social · Jun 28

This is so cool!

Let's go to the movies, writer friends.

Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Jun 25

Starting August 2nd, LGW is kicking off a free, five-week writing practice inspired by classic summer films. Each Saturday, we’ll send you generative prompts based on a summer movie.

Sign up for Summer at the Movies:
https://lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Jun 28

Yay! Thanks for sharing!

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · Jun 28

“But music is not an escape
to somewhere else”

A gorgeous poem that holds its own musicality for grief. Love this new one by @susanlleary.bsky.social in Pedestal Magazine.

Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Jun 27

Have been wanting to place a poem in Pedestal Magazine since I started submitting, so it means a great deal to have “Lilacs, Music, Boy” featured in the newest issue. Big thanks to John Amen and the editorial team for this joy, this kindness!

Read the issue: thepedestalmagazine.com/issues/issue...

Lilacs, Music, Boy

Music really does heal all wounds!! I will believe that until the day I die. —BLK,
8/18/2020

I conclude with a sound
that is a boy in a field with his sketch
pad penciling lilacs across
a face. A boy, by his own remedy,
trusting to drown out the warships & human energy. But music is not an escape
to somewhere else—& why this somewhere else is not the real thing when
certainly it is? A garden everywhere
is a slab of concrete. No window
to leap from. No final wind exiting
the body. Those with foresight care little
for the atmosphere & what it listens
to, but as you would, Brother, you attempt
to bandage the sound. You hide, first, the noise from the music then realign the proper sense with the proper task. Death is scarcely viable & time is trembling. So are the lilacs. Maybe now you can go home.

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Jun 25

Starting August 2nd, LGW is kicking off a free, five-week writing practice inspired by classic summer films. Each Saturday, we’ll send you generative prompts based on a summer movie.

Sign up for Summer at the Movies:
https://lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Jun 19

This Sunday!! Don't forget to register!

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Jun 10

Join MJ Gomez and Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott for Birdsong, Wildfires, and Faith: A Poetry Reading hosted by Variant Lit. Sunday, June 22 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. BST. Live on Zoom.

@bluejayverses.bsky.social @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social

Register:
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Join MJ Gomez and Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott for Birdsong, Wildfires, and Faith: A Poetry Reading hosted by Variant Lit. Sunday, June 22 at 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. BST. Live on Zoom

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Jun 19

This Sunday!! Don't forget to register!

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Jun 10

Join MJ Gomez and Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott for Birdsong, Wildfires, and Faith: A Poetry Reading hosted by Variant Lit. Sunday, June 22 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. BST. Live on Zoom.

@bluejayverses.bsky.social @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social

Register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Jun 13

ok here's my dung beetle love poem

Love Poem with Dung Beetle

Dung beetles use the moon to navigate.
They take dung breaks by resting on their dung balls too.

There’s a louse that infects a fish
by becoming its tongue.

We've put enough men on the moon
to populate a church basement's last AA meeting,

but ask a physicist for an equation on bee flight
and the best they'll be able to do is to linger

with you in the middle of a small bridge
and count the creek-caught leaves float by.

The world is loud and fathomable
until it isn't; a mirror

left in the whitest snow reflects a sky so clear
the whitest snow barely looks white at all,

a dog treks across the country to find its master,
a man loses all the color in his irises

after his pupils dilate so wide
because he sees his love walk through the door.

One look, and he knows where to go.
Anything can be the moon.

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Jun 10

Join MJ Gomez and Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott for Birdsong, Wildfires, and Faith: A Poetry Reading hosted by Variant Lit. Sunday, June 22 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. BST. Live on Zoom.

@bluejayverses.bsky.social @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social

Register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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