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Hi fellow margin-writers!
Show & Tell
Now for all the things you’ve done this year. Y’all are amazing!
Poet Abigail Welhouse‘s publications for 2022 are the first five items here: https://welhouse.nyc/news. Also her excellent newsletter, Secret Poems, and her podcast episode from a million years ago, where we chat about everything from poetry prompts to LiveJournal.
Alicia de los Reyes writes:
I have been in a real life local-ish writing group with three other amazing women writers! It’s fantastic. We have met quarterly for over a year now and it is the best thing for my writing. We do a workshop and the styles we all write in are very different, but we really all get something great from it (I definitely do). In addition to the helpful feedback, I feel like a writer for 6-8 hours every 3 months :)I have also finished a draft of a novel and am 2/3 of the way through revising it. What a beast novel-writing is!I did a bunch of giveaways through my newsletter and kept it up monthly this year. Woo!
You can catch Alicia’s episodes here and here.2-time PNWA contest finalist Amy Dressler has started a newsletter, here. You can also catch her and a few other members of the Marginally writing collective in this episode.
Our friend E writes that she’s written more than 100,000 words of (very excellent, I might add) fanfiction this year, after writing almost no fiction for years. All Bridgerton: a couple of regency-era pieces, a modern AU set in Silicon Valley, and a Christmas Carol mashup that involved going through the Dickens line-by-line. If you’re new to the world of fanfiction, trust me — E’s is great stuff.
Writing collective member Nicole Roth has an excellent quarterly newsletter, and had a story published in East on Central this year (print only). Congrats, Nicole!
Another collective member Peter Amos not only published several pieces this year, he formed the jazz guitar duo The M.A.d. guitar, and you can catch them all over the Newport News, VA area.
Sarah Hawkins, whose Instagram/TikTok (@itssarahhawkins everywhere) we’ve mentioned here before and who’s our final collective member, also offers editing services and has a great series on revision up on her writing blog, and loads of great grammar and editing tips on her editing site. You can also sign up for her newsletter there.
Get to work!
Meghan & Olivia
