megan nichols

Honored to have a poem in Plume Poetry's May issue alongside gorgeous, gorgeous writers. plumepoetry.com/category/all-i…

Our submission window for our annual short story contest opens this Friday! This year, we welcome @AndrewPorter01 as our guest judge. We're excited to share our Q&A with him on craft, writing, and more!

My extremely talented friend, Caitlin Morris has put together a month of summer-movie inspired writing prompts. It's free and fun and begins August 2nd! Considering signing up! lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies

My bridge poem. My Hart Crane moment

We're writing together today! Poetry prompts, CNF prompts, fiction. Still time to sign up for free: lemongrovewriters.com/sprint

Cowriting session with prompts this Saturday, July 12th, 2025 – 11 AM Central / 12 PM Eastern / 9 AM Pacific RSVP: lemongrovewriters.com/sprint

For the last 6 months I've co-hosted free Writing Sprints. We meet on Zoom, engage with provided prompts (or not), we write for 2 hours. No critique, no pressure to share (though it's exciting when people do). We next meet on July 12th at 11am Central via Zoom

Have been wanting to place a poem in Pedestal Magazine since I started submitting, so it means a great deal to have “Lilacs, Music, Boy” featured in the new issue. Big thanks to John Amen and the editorial team for this joy, this kindness! Read the issue: thepedestalmagazine.com/issues/issue-9…

A few weeks into this "entry points" prompt idea I had & I can't say I'm writing great things, but I am writing consistently: For essays – start with a question For poetry – start with an image For fiction – a problem For memoir – a memory For a blog post – an offering

30 rejections so far in 2025 and 0 acceptances. I am not spiraling out...yet! but boy oh boy would it be nice to be externally validated. All this internal validation is tiring

Tonight:

This will be my third public reading in as many years. I plan to share a mix of old and new favorites before returning to my regularly scheduled avoidance of the camera. Would love to see you there

3 new poems up at the incredible @LunchTicket1! Here’s “Mid-Trauma Sonnet.” It’s a beautiful issue, friends, edited by one of the kindest: Jessica Ballen. So very glad to be included! 💙 Check out the entire issue here: lunchticket.org/archive/issue-…

My lecture "30 Ideas About Writing Nonfiction" is up at @thecreativeindp today. Includes thoughts about structure, scale, tone, authority, titles, surprise, and what the word "interesting" means (it's one of my favorite words): thecreativeindependent.com/essays/30-idea…

It Doesn’t Always Work, But It’s Nice When It Does open.substack.com/pub/whatweaimt…

happening soon!

This Sunday - listen to two poets read their work and answer author questions. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…