Congratulations to our co-founder! Can't wait to read it!

Thank you to E. Ethelbert Miller for his conversation with Charlotte Taylor Fryar (author of Potomac Fever) today over at Brown Bag Lit in partnership with @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social! If you missed it, you can find a recording here: www.youtube.com/@brownbaglit...

See you on Monday for our Brown Bag Lit event: Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events

Join co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social to write, workshop and read poetry this spring!

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.

I brought Charlotte Taylor Fryar's Potomac Fever down to Foundry Branch (a tributary of the Potomac River in Rock Creek Park)! The author, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, will join us over at @brownbaglit.bsky.social on Monday, November 17, 12 - 1 pm EST). www.brownbaglit.com/events

Next up at Brown Bag Lit: Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events

Join us virtually on November 17th to hear Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller discussing how she used historical research and environmental observation to reveal hidden histories within a specific place in Potomac Fever. Thank you to Brown Bag Lit for hosting this event!

Attention folks in the DC area - co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social will be reading with the DC/MD chapter for Writers for Democratic Action. Hope you can stop by and say, "hi!"

We look forward to featuring @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social's November Author's Corner spotlight, Charlotte Taylor Fryar, author of Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation's River! Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller www.brownbaglit.com/events Monday, November 17, 2025

We sent out our November Brown Bag Lit news! If you're not on our mailing list, DM me and I'll add you! mailchi.mp/dbeaa6270997...

#RandomWritingPrompt: Is there a recipe that defines your character or you? Would you go so far as to ask to have it placed on a gravestone? Write the recipe, describe the taste and write about the preparation of the dish and the celebration in which the dish is enjoyed! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Our November Brown Bag Lit event features Charlotte Taylor Fryar, author of Potomac Fever, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, about writing her essay collection and researching the environmental, racial and other histories of the Potomac River.

'Tis the Halloween season! For today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit, write a list of ten real or new (made-up) Halloween names. For example, I'm loving the "Warty Goblin" pumpkins! Then, see if you can work them into a short story, essay or poem.

Thank you to Naomi Thiers for her review of Jessica Simon’s poetry collection, Built of All I Shape and Name (Kelsay Books) in Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal! www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...

If you are in the DMV, come hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social next week read poems!

Congratulations to co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social -

Today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art. While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.

Get my hot tips on agent querying (which I am very sorry to tell you involves a massive spreadsheet and lots of research) at the link. 😀

Happy birthday, @shastagrant.bsky.social!!

Hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social tomorrow -

#RandomWritingPrompt: There are many different kinds of languages, including constructed languages (like Esperanto.) Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.

Thank you to @bookbent.bsky.social for visiting today to discuss her debut novel, The Belles, and all about her publishing path with @shastagrant.bsky.social! If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...

*TODAY!* Register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events

Excited that @brownbaglit.bsky.social will be hosting @bookbent.bsky.social tomorrow at noon EST to discuss her debut novel, The Belles (Simon & Schuster). The novel - dark academia - is hauntingly creepy. Don't take it on your walk in the woods. Better yet, don't go into the woods.

*Tomorrow* at Brown Bag Lit: @bookbent.bsky.social will read from The Belles and answer your ?s about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author. Get in the mood with this playlist: blog.freshfiction.com/playlist-the...

What are you reading for Banned Books Week? more here: bannedbooksweek.org Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss: Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...

Want to ask me your pressing questions about writing, finding the right agent, and how to survive the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author? Join me next Tuesday for a free lunchtime chat! buymeacoffee.com/brownbaglit/... @brownbaglit.bsky.social

Join Brown Bag Lit next week for our Oct. event! @bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles (@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.

#RandomWritingPrompt: 'Tis the Horror Season! Write a horror story or poem with a start, middle and end (which is to say, there are lots of real life horrors right now. Work to harness one that is contained and resolvable.)

Brown Bag Lit just sent out our Oct. newsletter in which we share member news and announce our next event with @bookbent.bsky.social! email: mailchi.mp/ba9132731d36... register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events DM us if you aren't on our mailing list and would like to be.

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Listen to something that makes you happy (maybe babies laughing here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiso...) Can you write that joy?

Let's think about your writing practice for today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: I like to talk about a "writer's toolbox" - the skills and knowledge you have accumulated. What's in your writer's toolbox?

Loved popping into @brownbaglit.bsky.social to talk multi-POV novels!! @regalhouse.bsky.social

Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break Writers event happening now; thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for visiting! Lunch Break: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break Miriam: miriamgershow.com

Today our Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break writing accountability group will participate in a small group talk about writing from various points of view with @miriamgershow.bsky.social (Closer.) Become a Lunch Break Writer to attend and receive more member benefits: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break

I was interviewed by Chloe Yelena Miller. Check it out!

New from Brown Bag Lit's Milk Journal: Multi-genre author @demisty.bsky.social chats with co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social about writing her short story collection All Daughters are Awesome Everywhere from @univnebpress.bsky.social (and other books!) www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal

Thank you to @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social for joining us today to discuss collaboration and their new poetry book, Q&A For The End of The World! If you missed it, and we hope you didn't!, you can catch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWOH...

Today at noon, EST! Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events Q&A for the End of the World 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social will share behind-the-scenes insights from co-writing their new poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World.

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit. The days are getting shorter. The constant news is dark. What brings you (or your character) light? Joy? It can be the smallest bite to the deepest laugh.

Join us on Monday! www.brownbaglit.com/events

Brown Bag Lit #RandomWritingPrompt: Read through your draft and find the heart of the piece. What are you writing about *really*? Underline this moment in the manuscript and then free-write on/about that moment and the reverberations that follow or precede it.

Congratulations to co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social. Check out her new work here -

Attention poets looking for an online class! Co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social is offering a small group, MFA style poetry writing workshop.

Monday, 9/15, 12 - 1 EST: A discussion between two poets about creative collaboration. @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social co-wrote the poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World (WordTech Editions). Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Look at color. What can color do (in writing or on the canvas)? Write what you see and what meaning you might find in the color(s).

Thanks to Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break member Eileen Minnefor for the shout-out to our event last year with @joshundasanders.bsky.social (WOMEN OF THE POST)! Read Eileen Minnefor's post Stolen from the Mail www.eileenminnefor.com/my-blog

#MovieKid writes today's #RandomWritingPrompt for Brown Bag Lit: Write from the seal lion's point of view. What are they discussing?