#RandomWritingPrompt (really an editing prompt) from @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social: Choose something you've written and work to tighten the frame. Where is the main energy of the piece? What can be cut out? (I think of this as looking through the window. What do you want to include in the frame?)
Congratulations to our co-founder, @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social!
Tomorrow is the last day of my current Brown Bag Lit poetry workshop. It has been another great one! Check out the books we read (we also workshop student poems...) What joy to spend so much time reading and discussing poetry!
I'm starting to plan for next semester. Click through for more-
Thank you to Jehanne Dubrow for joining Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break members on Thursday for a generative writing workshop from her new craft book, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma.
Join our writing accountability group today to join the workshop: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
@chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social here! For today's writing prompt, focus on how light - and/or darkness - can illuminate a moment. In the picture below, the silhouettes only appear because of both the light and darkness.
Thank you!
Thanks to Adrianne Mathiowetz Photography for a great photo shoot at AWP26!
Attention folks in the DMV area - don't miss your chance to hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social read her work!
Check out co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social's Substack with a guest author: Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break Member Bernadine (Dine) Watson!
#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Imagine you are something else. What would / could you be?
Starting today at noon, if you'd like to join us! with @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social and @shastagrant.bsky.social
Last call! This workshop with co-founders @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social and @shastagrant.bsky.social is tomorrow! We'd love to see you!
Details: www.brownbaglit.com/classes
Brown Bag Lit #RandomWritingPrompt from @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social:
Look up! What do you see? What isn't there (i.e. what don't you see?) Start your writing by describing what is there and work to frame the content in some way.
Kid is on spring break and joining @brownbaglit.bsky.social's Lunch Break Writers accountability group today!
This isn't what we're eating (but rather what I wish we were eating? Two panini from Matera, Italy, last summer.)
Be like the kid and join us, too? www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
#RandomWritingPrompt:
@chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social here. I love when I can "see through" something & there's a resulting palimpsest (laying/co-existence) of experiences - what was, is and will be. Thinking about construction, write on the topic of "what's still standing." Is it you? A memory?
We just sent a Brown Bag Lit email to subscribers highlighting two recent Milk Journal pieces, an AWP gathering and an upcoming class, as well as news! Let us know if you'd like to be added to our mailing list.
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@shastagrant.bsky.social & @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social
@shastagrant.bsky.social t and I are not only here to help you to write your book, but also to finish it! Check out our new, online class through @brownbaglit.bsky.social on Thursday, April 2, from 12 - 1:30.
chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/brown-bag-...
Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal thanks Miho Kinnas for reviewing No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC, by Brian Gilmore (Georgetown University Press)
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal
Congratulations to co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social for this great podcast episode of @literarymama.bsky.social's This Mama is Lit with Amanda Fields and @evalangston.bsky.social!
They’ll discuss how they started and finished their books - and what you can do to finish yours (poetry and prose writers at all stages welcome.)
Read more:
www.brownbaglit.com/classes
Trying to finish a poetry or prose manuscript?
For the price of one novel and one poetry collection, join Brown Bag Lit co-founders @shastagrant.bsky.social and @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social for the online class Finish Your Book on Thursday, April 2, from 12 - 1:30 pm EST!
#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Write 3-5 fortunes (for yourself or a character!)
Hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social read from Perforated on Wednesday evening online!
Thanks to the @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social Cleveland Park branch for inspiration!
Brown Bag Lit #RandomWritingPrompt:
Many of us are back from the AWP conference feeling ... a lot. I know that I (Chloe) am overwhelmed by all of the input, ideas and physical exhaustion. Take a break. Grab a book - any book - and make quiet time to read and recenter yourselves.
Hope you can join in to hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social !
And if you will be at the conference, we hope to see you for a quick coffee break on Friday morning! Details here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
#RandomWritingPrompt: It is AWP week!
And AWP is a lot. As we wrote in our monthly email update, it can be "a lot a lot."
For now, take a breath. Try writing that breath (or break.) Give yourself five minutes to just write and refocus. Give yourself a clearing.
We hope to see you at AWP!
No registration required. www.brownbaglit.com/events
