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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · 11d

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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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 12d

Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉

SLM IS
LOOKING FOR
FLASH AND
FICTION
READERS
Apply Sept 24- Oct 1
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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · 15d

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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Joy Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · 15d

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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Joy Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · 16d

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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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · May 15

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...

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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · Apr 24

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!

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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Joy Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · Apr 24

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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Joy Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · Apr 15

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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Joy Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

joybaglio.substack.com

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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · Apr 8

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

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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · Mar 7

PVWW Founder / Director Joy Baglio will be featured in this reading at @forbeslibrary.bsky.social in Northampton MA (also livestreamed)!

Joy Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · Mar 1

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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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · Mar 7

Call for essays, from emerging writers! Great opportunity!

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Mar 6

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 ...

gay.submittable.com

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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · Feb 22

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

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Joy Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · Feb 18

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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Joy Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · Feb 18

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. :)

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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · Feb 9

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...

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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · Feb 9

Our 2025 virtual workshop schedule is up! New classes (with award-winning authors) added regularly! Check it out here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/courses

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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · Feb 9

A great writing prompts from @perugiapress.bsky.social!

Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · Feb 7

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).

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · Feb 7

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).

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Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social · Feb 9

This Tuesday, 2/11! PVWW instructor @poetmercurio.bsky.social hosts this all-star poetry reading series, virtually and free to attend!

Michael Mercurio @poetmercurio.bsky.social · Jan 25

What The Universe Is: Rita Banerjee and Amanda Shaw will be happening on February 11 at 7:30pm Eastern on Zoom. Get yourself registered at bit.ly/WTUIFeb2025 so you don't miss a minute of this reading!

Headshots of poets Rita Banerjee and Amanda Shaw float on a glittering starfield underneath the words What The Universe Is and above the words Tuesday, February 11 @ 7:30pm ET, along with the registration link, bit.ly/WTUIFeb2025

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Blair Hurley @bhurley.bsky.social · Feb 5

Deep in novel revisions and had a revelation about why a scene isn’t working: it’s me trying to be mean, to humiliate my characters, instead of being genuinely curious about them.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · Nov 15

"Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibility that they are founded on nothing."
- John Ashbery

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The Englewood Review of Books @erbks.bsky.social · Jan 31

"...such elegant sentences and sentiments that you find yourself immediately wanting to return to it..."
NEW REVIEW of Opacities by Sofia Samatar. Thanks to @lizharmer.bsky.social for the review! https://buff.ly/4aKG0KH

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