Brown Bag Lit
An online writing community with classes, events and more with @shastagrant.bsky.social and @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social
https://www.brownbaglit.com
- Thank you to @stephanieaustin.bsky.social for visiting Lunch Break Writers today to discuss Live Readings for Writers: Practical Tips for Performing Your Work in Front of an Audience! Join for access to this and other craft-oriented recordings - and upcoming events! www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
- Happy book launch day to @stephanieaustin.bsky.social! We're excited to host her through Lunch Break writers on Thursday for a small-group workshop on how to best read your creative work for audiences. Join Lunch Break writers to attend! www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break www.brownbaglit.com/events
- We sent out our Brown Bag Lit newsletter with some announcements and good news, including a brand new class! Let us know if you'd like to be added to our mailing list. And check out this class we're cooking up for you: www.brownbaglit.com/classes
- Congratulations to Brown Bag Lit Co-Founder Shasta Grant on her recent flash fiction publication in Ghost Parachute! ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
- #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: What is your character's path out of a dilemma? Literally draw the map with the various stops and then write it as a scene.
- In the DMV? Come out on February 11 to hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social read poems!
- Very excited to be reading at Dupont Underground with Samuel Miranda, Jhon Carlos Barrera and Adrian Gaston Garcia on Feb. 11! Buy your tickets today! Doors open at 6, reading runs from 6:30 – 8:30! dupontunderground.org/read-the-room
- Join online tomorrow (Friday) to hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social read from her new poetry collection!
- I look forward to being in conversation with poet Sara R. Burnett during my online launch with Lily Poetry Review Books! Join us tomorrow evening! Friday, Jan. 30, 7-8 pm EST. Free registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
- I cannot stop thinking about the beautiful poems we heard today in our Brown Bag Lit poetry reading with poets Kristen Bales, Alison Damast Dolinger, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Megan Leonard, Caroline M. Mar, Sarah A. Paden and Phoebe Reeves. If you missed it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWF-...
- A wonderful reading followed by an insightful conversation. This reading grew out of last semester's poetry workshop. Today, the poets in the workshop and the poets we studied read together. It was lovely.
- Tomorrow is going to be cold - again! Warm up with a poetry reading and hear poets: @kristenbalesbooks.bsky.social, Alison Damast Dolinger, Laurie Ann Guerrero, @meganleonard.bsky.social, Caroline M. Mar, Sarah A. Paden and Phoebe Reeves! Free registration: www.brownbaglit.com/events
- Enter to win a free copy of co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social's book!
- Enter the Goodreads Giveaway to win a free, signed copy of Perforated (I'll include a bookmark and sticker, too! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
- #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Much of the US is covered in snow and ice. We hope you are warm and safe! For today's writing prompt, how do you / your characters divide the cold and the warm? Is it physical? Symbolic? Emotional?
- DC friends - hope you can come out and celebrate co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social's new book tonight!
- Tonight is the night! I can't wait for my in-person, D.C. launch! Rose Solari and I will be at @politicsprose.bsky.social (Conn. Ave.) reading at 7 pm. If we are friends in real life, reach out about the party before hand! I'd love to see you.
- Brown Bag Lit's Lunch Break Writers program expanded this year to include Office Hours. Members can drop by to ask the co-directors questions related to writing! The first one is today. Join our writing accountability group for this and more! Details: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
- Congratulations to our co-founder, @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social !
- Today is Perforated's official publication day! Happy birthday, Perforated! In today's post, I share the dedications. Thank YOU for being along for this lovely ride! I hope to see you at a future reading! I hope to see you soon. chloeyelenamiller.substack.com
- Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break Writers member Langston enjoys today's member exclusive event with Jona Colson (Washington Writers' Publishing House) about submitting and publishing! Be like Langston and join Lunch Break Writers for events like this, writing accountability time and more!
- See the full list of membership benefits of our writing accountability group here and join today: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
- Brown Bag Lit's Lunch Break Writers members will have the opportunity to learn more about submitting and editing an anthology from Jona Colson (co-president of @wwph.bsky.social) this week!
- Brown Bag Lit's Lunch Break Writers members will have the opportunity to learn more about submitting and editing an anthology from Jona Colson (co-president of @wwph.bsky.social) this week!
- #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: What brings you warmth? Safety? How can you bring that feeling - and reality - to someone else?
- We are excited about our Brown Bag Lit poetry reading on Wed., Jan. 28, from 12 - 1 pm EST. Check out one of our poets, @phoebereeves.bsky.social! Join us! Register for the Zoom link: www.brownbaglit.com/events www.phoebereeves.com
- She lives in Cincinnati, OH with her husband Don Peteroy, amidst her unruly urban garden.
- We are excited about our Brown Bag Lit poetry reading on Wed., Jan. 28, from 12 - 1 pm EST. Check out one of our poets, Sarah A. Paden! Join us! Register for the Zoom link: www.brownbaglit.com/events
- She tries to stay close to the spirit with her work and listen closely.
- We are excited about our Brown Bag Lit poetry reading on Wed., Jan. 28, from 12 - 1 pm EST. Check out one of our poets, Caroline M. Mar! Join us! Register for the Zoom link: www.brownbaglit.com/events
- She has been granted residencies at Hedgebrook, Ragdale, and Storyknife, among others. You can find her online at carolinemar.com.
- We are excited about our Brown Bag Lit poetry reading on Wed., Jan. 28, from 12 - 1 pm EST. Check out one of our poets, @meganleonard.bsky.social! Join us! Register for the Zoom link: www.brownbaglit.com/events
- Meg is a visual artist and writer, and themes in her work often include disability and chronic illness, mental illness, madness, creepy little fairytales, and motherhood. Meg works as a writing mentor and lives on the New Hampshire coast.
- We are excited about our Brown Bag Lit poetry reading on Wed., Jan. 28, from 12 - 1 pm EST. Check out one of our poets, Laurie Ann Guerrero! Join us! Register for the Zoom link: www.brownbaglit.com/events
- Poet and essayist, Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio and is the author of REDWORK, winner of the 2025 Autumn House Poetry Award, forthcoming in October 2026. Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2014-16) and Texas (2016-2017),
- she is the author of Babies under the Skin (Panhandler 2008), A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press 2013), A Crown for Gumecindo—a collaboration with visual artist, Maceo Montoya (Aztlan Libre Press 2015), and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake:
- New & Selected Poems (TCU Press 2021). Guerrero holds degrees from Smith College and Drew University. She is an Associate Professor and the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio where she teaches writing, cultural studies, gender studies, and is currently at work on a novel.
- #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Write about being both above and below. (Here is a photo from Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park in which the photographer, me, is positioned both above and below the clouds.)
- We are excited about our Brown Bag Lit poetry reading on Wed., Jan. 28, from 12 - 1 pm EST. Check out one of our poets, Alison Damast Dolinger! Join us! Register for the Zoom link: www.brownbaglit.com/events
- When not writing, she can be found singing with The Manhattan Choral Ensemble and exploring the Hudson Valley with her family and goldendoodle.
- We are excited about our Brown Bag Lit poetry reading on Wed., Jan. 28, from 12 - 1 pm EST. Check out one of our poets, @kristenbalesbooks.bsky.social www.kristenbales.com Join us! Register for the Zoom link: www.brownbaglit.com/events
- Reposted by Brown Bag LitLast call for my online MFA style poetry writing workshop through @brownbaglit.bsky.social! We start next week. Details here: www.brownbaglit.com/classes Reach out with any questions.
- Today's #RandomWritingPrompt is in honor of today's Lunch Break Writers Pop-Up and tomorrow's Lunch Break Writers return after the holiday break! Think about your (or your character's) favorite snack and work to describe it the best you can.
- Learn more about Lunch Break Writers, our writing accountability membership: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
- Join us tomorrow for a free pop-up Lunch Break Writers session! See what our writing accountability group is before becoming a member. Register for the pop-up: www.brownbaglit.com/events Learn more about Lunch Break Writers: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
- Reposted by Brown Bag LitWhat a book... we are lucky that Jehanne will be visiting @brownbaglit.bsky.social in April for a Lunch Break Writers workshop on writing poems of trauma. Join us to attend!
- We just shared our January Brown Bag Lit news! Looking forward to a Lunch Break Writers pop up, Lunch Break Writers exclusive event with an editor and a poetry reading! mailchi.mp/07f421bc9c52...
- Congratulations to our co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social !
- First poetry publication of 2026! Thank you to the folks at @rogueagent.bsky.social for publishing this poem from a manuscript in progress about breasts! www.rogueagentjournal.com/cmiller
- Winter #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Many winter moments appear black and white. Where do you find color?
- #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Look at geometric or abstract shapes and write what you see.
