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Meredith Wadley – editing a novel – ignoring DMs!
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Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
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Last year slipped by—along with my attempt to finish a #novel. This year, I'm nearly done with my #2nddraft. A #WIP, but I'm hella farther along & loving the process & progress.

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #SwissAlps #Weisshorn #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #writersky #authorsky
Sunset in an alpine valley. The grassy valley floor, it's decommissioned airstrip, and the lower, forested slopes of the mountains are in evening shadows. The dark slopes form a V that frames the silhouette of the distant Weisshorn bathed in gold light and capped by horizontal layers of clouds touched golden and silver and blue.
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Hands down, the most charming book I’ve read this year! I highly recommend!!

#TheLightsofShantinagar by #NidhiArora

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #womeninSTEM, #STEM, #bookclubfiction #india #indianwriters #contemporaryfiction #womenwriters, #literaryfiction #writersky #authorsky
A paperback novel on a laptop. The Lights of Shantinagar by Nidhi Arora has a colorful illustrated cover of bight windows against a star-filled night sky. Figures occupy most of the windows but one, which has a study lamp, beaming light across the cover and centrally placed title.
September 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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My September #musing is live!

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP, #BonnieGarmus, #LidiaYuknavitch, #emailscams, #campussuspensenovel, #AI, #ChatGPT, #writersky #authorsky
Text superimposed over the cover of a manuscript of adult literary fiction: “My September #musing is shaped by the Wonderland of #AI, but not the writing of it.
September 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Wishing everyone a bright, colorful day! #5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

I’m happily #editing my #campusnovel, #suspensenovel, my #poet #protag undermining the patriarchy!
Sunrise colors the bellies of clouds, purple, pink, orange, and yellow. The landscape is of a lawn and a large fir tree to the photographer’s left, and to her right, a contemporary Swiss house with a red tile roof. A paved driveway leads the eye straight to a distant village, silhouetted against the sunset and the colorful horizon.
September 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Editing my #novelinprogress & not here much but thinking of you & hoping your #writingprojects are progressing well.

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #WIP #writersky #authorsky

Here's to self-doubt:
A bright yellow garden gnome flips the finger. He smirks, too.
August 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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This morning , #editing on my 2nd draft & a bike ride in the afternoon.

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#obergoms #switzerland
From a mowed, grassy ledge, the view of water cascading through rocks and brush where two mountain slopes come together. Looking southwest and from 500 meters up from the valley floor, Obergoms, lushly green, and forested mountain slopes. The sky is partly overcast. In the foreground, a trail cuts through turf, and a sign is posted with directions. Looking up toward the Furka Pass from a rough, two-track road flanking a mountain slope. Just visible is a mountain bike handlebar. Just up the path is a pole with trail mustard yellow signs.
August 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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New musing up on my Substack page! Enjoy!

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A screenshot of an Instagram post for a Substack post. Superimposed on a photo of a sieve filled with tiny ted and white strawberries is the title, “A Full Empty Nest”and a lede, “For three weeks, our lives brimmed with young people. My early morning house, I shared. And our gorgeous country, Switzerland, as well as our place in the Alps, we shared. I don't mention it in this piece, but we shared a bout of flu, too—all during a heatwave.” Included is a link to the Substack post: https://meredithwadley.substack.com/p/a-full-empty-nest (1) A Full Empty Nest - Meredith Wadley
July 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Family visits end soon 😭😭😭 & my #reading & #writing rhythms return 😎😎😎
I’ve been staying up late and spending my mornings watering the garden. #heatwave

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A closed MacBook Pro covered with left-leaning stickers—Ruth Ginsburg, Literaturhaus Zürich, I VOTED, Powell’s Bookstore, and a colorful dia de los muertos skull—sits on a walnut wood desk facing a window overlooking an out-of-focus garden. Between the laptop and window is a stack of books: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine, The Boat Not Taken by Joanna Choi Kalbus, The Lights of Shantinagar by Nidhi Arora, and Ran’s Daughters by Kaitlin Felix.
July 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Confession: I love writing in the morning dark. When it's light at 5am, I go for a walk before sitting down to write. It's gorgeous outside, after a cold & wet few weeks. Happy writing!
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A loose and sparse bouquet of pink peonies, dark purple lavender, pink red valerian, and yellow daisy-like sneezeweed are in a rectangular slab-glass vase. An open pink peony is sunlit. Only the nearest flowers are in focus. The out-of-focus vase sits on a French tablecloth, printed cotton of bright and colorful counterpanes. Each square pane is a different solid color, coral, purple, green, yellow, and pink with contrasting-colored geometric patterns. The squares are bordered in white printed to resemble patterned ribbons. The background—a sunlit oak dresser—is out of focus.
June 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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A fresh musing up on #substack, #meredithwrites. Enjoy!

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Photo and text generated by Substack advertising a recent post. The photo is of a lily pond and lush mixed forest with blooming rhododendrons and azaleas, red, orange, and yellow. The text reads: A Mother’s Day Outing (title) I was in for a treat. In a swath of sunken land shielded by deciduous trees and evergreen hedges, there were glimpses of explosive pinks, purples, yellows. Rhododendrons; my favorite flowering bushes. (Lead) This year, on Mother’s Day, which in Switzerland is observed in May, barely, my son and youngest daughter came home for a visit. (opening paragraph) Superimposed over the opening paragraph in a larger font is: New musing up. Enjoy!
June 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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A train ride into #Zürich is always #readingtime. Loving an immersion into #SmallRain by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social.

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A blue covered book on a shelf under a window of a train speeding past the red-tiled row houses of a Swiss hamlet. The bucolic setting outside is full of green trees, forested hills in the distance, and a spring-perfect blue sky with plump white clouds.
May 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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An evening on the #RhineRiver. #Switzerland

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View from a neon yellow kayak (its front in the foreground). The calm, dark green Rhine River reflects a Herrschaftshaus. a medieval watchtower, and a modern bridge. The sky is a light blue decorated with faint clouds. Two kaysks approach an outcropping of rock surrounded by the waters of the Rhine River. One kayak is neon yellow, and only its triangular tip is in the foreground. The second kayak is turquoise and powered by a Caucasian man with short white hair. The dark green water shows barely a ripple.
May 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A colorful break! Up this #Sundaymorning, doing novel edits (hitting the 1/3 mark)!

Have a productive, creative day with your #writingprojects!

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A elevated view of a Swiss suburban neighborhood, a single family home, a tall fir, a medieval village in the distance, and a sky full of clouds reflecting the bright orange of sunrise.
April 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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#rainbows 🌈 over #KaiserstuhlAG!

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A double rainbow stretches out of a forested hillside to arch over suburban Swiss homes. A double rainbow stretches out of a forested hillside to arch over suburban Swiss homes. The town’s medieval tower and a 1930’s villa are lit in golden sunlight. The skies are covered in dark storm clouds. A double rainbow stretches over a two-story Swiss suburban home.
April 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I started an #EnglishBookClub in my Swiss town. We read #votingday_novel by #ClareODea, #Foster_novel by #ClaireKeegan, and now #BottledGoods_novel by #SophieVanLlewyn.

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We meet in the lovely #KaiserstuhlSpittel. The view:
The churchyard of the medieval town of Kaiserstuhl from a first floor window. Townhouses surround the church with their typically steeply pitched and tiled roofs.
April 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Swiss #EasterEggs. #Switzerland
A large square tray filled the green wax paper grass and decorated Easter eggs. The hard-boiled eggs are onion-skin brown. Herbal leaves are attached to the raw eggs using stockings tightly tied over the eggs, and after cooking, the stockings and leaves and flowers are removed from the eggs, leaving the imprint that appears yellow. A large square tray filled the green wax paper grass and decorated Easter eggs. The hard-boiled eggs are onion-skin brown. Herbal leaves are attached to the raw eggs using stockings tightly tied over the eggs, and after cooking, the stockings and leaves and flowers are removed from the eggs, leaving the imprint that appears yellow. A hand cradles an egg with a five-petaled leaf. A second hand makes the peace sign.
April 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Bunny buns for #Easter at my sister-in-law’s And two #Swiss #Zöpf.
Bread on a cooling rack. Eight buns forming a ring are shaped as bunnies and the center is a flower—for Easter. Closeup of two bread bunnies on a cooling rack. Eight buns forming a ring are shaped as bunnies and a center flower for Easter. Two Swiff Zöpf, braided bread. An egg wash gives them a rich golden brown crust.
April 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Hey, #jetlag! You make #5amwritersclub a chance to sleep in for a few hours! 🤣🤣

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Looking at a fire-orange sunrise from an elevated position. The view includes a contemporary Swiss home, a large fir tree, a few cars and deciduous trees, some blossoming fruit trees. The orange and golden sky is the lit underbelly of sculptural and highly textural clouds, like inverted ocean waves on a stormy day. From an elevated position, a contemporary Swiss house and garden, and a horizon that includes an apartment building and a medieval watchtower. The sky’s clouds are sunrise lit, golden, orange, and pink below a promising blue. A lush green field, a Swiss gabled building, hillside of mixed forest, and blue sky with sunrise pink clouds. A quarter moon is a spot of white in the sky.
April 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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First morning home from visiting the crazy #US. Loved seeing friends & family & going to #AWP2025 in #LA, but it’s good to be back in #KaiserstuhlAG

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An elevated view of a foggy dawn. A house and large fir tree frames layers of a foggy landscape and the layers of sky, going from the blue gray of low fog to orange yellow of the sun rising to the white of clouds.
April 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Red, white & blue breakfast after seeing the #boiseidaho #fightoligarchyrally yesterday evening!
A bowl of homemade granola with Nancy’s Whole Milk Yogurt, raspberries, and blueberries!
April 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Traveled from #LaGrandeOregon to #Boise yesterday to see #AOC & #BernieSanders! The packed arena was🔥! #FightOligarchy

Made my trip to the #US worthwhile!!
Surrounded by an arena filled with an excited, cheering crowd, Bernie Sanders stands at a lectern on a podium. The Stars and Stripes has been temporarily covered by a Palestine flag with “Free Palestine” written on it. In a minute, several police officers respond, jerking the flag out of the protesters’ hands and forcefully escorting three protesters out of the arena. The crowd wildly responds with chants, “Free Palestine! Free Palestine!” as Congressman Sanders asks them to calm down.
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Visiting Mom in her memory care facility. Sharing #photos of past #horses. This one I bred, trained & evented on. Good old Tyke. And good old times.
An appaloosa horse jumps a cross-country obstacle course. The rider, a young woman, sits balanced over the horse, the two in harmony. The photo is signed and dated, August ‘84.
April 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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After #editing work on my #novelinprogress & wishing my #middlechild a happy birthday, I notice the sunshine! Happy writing/editing, friends!

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Early morning spring sunshine on a sloping suburban backyard brightens a cluster of deciduous trees barely leafing out as well as a neighbor’s house.
April 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Day 18: Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you – one painting per day, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting #20paintingchallenge
A woman dressed in toga-like white dress sits copper-toned on an outcrop of rocks on the edge of an alpine lake with a mirrored surface. She gazes up at the cloudy sunset sky, the peaking sun turning the her mountain-peak surrounds golden and copper.
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Happy to be in the #USA to participate in a #HandsOff demonstration in #LaGrandeOregon! Thanks to #TrishWallace for inviting me to a sign-making party at her place! The results, my original sign:
A handwritten message in black on bright pink cardboard: "The Smell of Rotting Democracy is MUSK" created for a Hands Off demonstration in LaGrande, Oregon in the USA.
April 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM