I live in MN in a Minneapolis suburb. It's so frightening, but we need to get more people across the country out. It takes 3.5% of the population before changes begin to be made. We're at about 2% right now.

I cannot stay silent about #Minneapolis. My February musing is as grim as I look. #ICE #entitlement #pastor_martin_niemoeller #FirstTheyCame #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

Whoo-hoo! An old friend's memoir is filmed. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... @lidiamiles.bsky.social #TheChronologyofWater #LidiaYuknavitch #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

New musing up on substack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/meredith... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

Focusing on a #campussuspensenovel – NOT submitting #shortstories to #litmags. Yet this a.m., I opened #bluesky to announce an acceptance! NO! WAIT: just last night's #DREAM! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #flashfiction #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.

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

After an October #blog break & being on the road, I'm back with a post about traveling + a bonus message . . . Enjoy! #Musing #retirement #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #WIP #campussuspense #writersky #authorsky meredithwadley.substack.com/p/finding-co...

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

#PubDay #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #militarybrat #usafbrat #VietnamEra #VietnamWar #LineofAdvance #MiddleWestPress #ColonelDarronLWrightMemorialWritingAwards #vestwrite #writersky #authorsky

But would you have to stop a brief moment to think?

Publication day! Two of my prize-winning stories are included in #OurBestWarStories. Brilliant works by lives impacted by war—on the battlefront & at home. Thanks to #LineofAdvance and #MiddleWestPress. Thanks to the editing team & congrats to all included! www.middlewestpress.com/2025/09/new-...

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

Traveling is hard on #5amwritersclub members. 1) How to share hotel rooms with a partner who sleeps in?? 2) Where to find decent coffee at 5am? & 3) Breakfast start as late as 6:30? Or 8:00???!!! That’s crazy! Still, I’m getting work/editing done + enjoying #Brussels #LeTouquet #Honfleur & #Auxerre

Enjoy this brilliant read! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻(And greetings from #AuxerreFrance!) #5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

#Submissions open next Monday, 15 September - also when the theme of Issue 9 will be announced. Hint? You might already be in it. #shortfiction #creativewriting #visualart #sometimeswehowl

Heading up north to #EuropeanWritersSalon in #Brussels! Excited to meet new & #SM friends & to talk nerdy #writer stuff! #5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

Dear #PrinceAndrew, surely it's time to confess your crimes to the world, your sins to your god, king, and daughters, and NAME NAMES. #epstein #trump #sextraffickers #POTUS #USCongress #believethewomen

Latest #macbookpro #wordupdate & I'm getting #pinwheels. Excessive numbers! Annoying! 🤬🤬🤬 You, too? #5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #womenwriters, #editing #debutnovel #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP, #appleproducts, #writersky #authorsky

Hell yes. Go after all of them. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

My September #musing is live! #5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP, #BonnieGarmus, #LidiaYuknavitch, #emailscams, #campussuspensenovel, #AI, #ChatGPT, #writersky #authorsky

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!

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:

This morning , #editing on my 2nd draft & a bike ride in the afternoon. #5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky #obergoms #switzerland

Curious about the use of “settlement” here instead of shakedown or bribe.

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New personal musing up. Enjoy !#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

It's time for my monthly musing, an indoor activity that takes you outdoors this month and covers some perils of Golden Years fitness ambitions. Enjoy! My last musing hit a record number of readers. So, thank you everyone for spending time with me!

Still a handful of tickets left. Come share/learn/shop/tour/dine/hang with us!

Oh, yes, grateful to be working on a new chapter of my #WIP in the best company & with wine & fries. Chatter was minimal, of course. 🤣🤣🤣 #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #writersky #authorsky

New musing up on my Substack page! Enjoy! meredithwadley.substack.com/p/a-full-emp... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

June was a month of heatwaves, family visits, a chance to tour Switzerland for these two empty nesters.

Our July issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-7/ Words @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @kimchinquee.bsky.social RENESHA DHANRAJ WYLEY FROHLICH JUNGERMAN TROY ANDERSON @danbillyc.bsky.social @theresegleason @claudiamonpere.bsky.social BRITTANY REDD TARA SHEA BURKE Art JACELYN YAP

Hey folks. I’m a reader for this crazy awesome litmag @lit-namjooning.bsky.social and we’re waiting for your quiet, meditative pieces. 2 days left!! 🩷🩷🩷

the amount of people who still don’t understand this utterly foundational fact is staggering

Family visits end soon 😭😭😭 & my #reading & #writing rhythms return 😎😎😎 I’ve been staying up late and spending my mornings watering the garden. #heatwave #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP

Stop saying "pre-emptive." The correct words are: Unprovoked Illegal Terrorism

I Ran the L.A.P.D. I Know What Happens When Troops Are Sent to American Cities. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

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! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwritingfiction #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #WIP #writersky #authorsky

Perfect! Timing is a day late, though. Yesterday, I wanted to say schwül instead of schwul! 🤔🤔🤔 🤣🤣🤣 Anyway, Pride Month is a good month to be schwul and schwül!

A fresh musing up on #substack, #meredithwrites. Enjoy! meredithwadley.substack.com/amothersdayo... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

May was a magical month this year for me, filled with family, friends, and excursions—by foot, bike, kayak, train, and bus. One out was special surprise filled with color and joy.

In the 19th century, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black Americans to a doctor in Germany, where they were used as part of now discredited racial science. The remains were recently returned to the city, where they will be laid to rest on Saturday.

Mar-o-Tacocrisy #taco #47 #trump #dumptrump

Watched a few episodes of the latest season of #TheWhiteLotus while visiting my daughter. Overwrought meh. Visited my brother and sister-in-law next. When they offered to watch the final episode, we all yawned and said, “Nah.”

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

McGovern: We live in the richest country on Earth and not a single kid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one and especially when Republicans are giving millionaires and billionaires a big fat tax break.

Hayes: Every provision in this program is cruel and they know it. That's why none of them spoke on it in committee. That's why they have no response. That's why they don't hold town halls. That's why they don't answer questions. All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote yes

Then there’s perfecting a chapter to decide immediately the whole thing has to go 🤣 🤣🤣 #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky