dawn.vogel | August 17, 2022
My poem, “Terraformer of Bigotry” is one of the nominees for the first Utopia Awards! You can vote for it (and items in other categories of utopian fiction) here! I’m super excited to have my first award nomination, and I’m delighted that it’s for this poem, which dreams of a world in which bigotry could […]
dawn.vogel | August 16, 2022
My story “A Modern Mary Shelley” was from a Drawlloween prompt of the author’s name. In this case, I wrote a second-person story from the perspective of a student entranced by the odd girl in their class, discovering more and more about her until the final conclusion. One of my favorite lines from this story: […]
dawn.vogel | August 15, 2022
If you’re looking for an unlikely place to learn about a topic, check out the courses on Atlas Obscura! Originally known as a site for strange places, Atlas Obscura has branched out to offering on-demand and live courses. And while not all of them are directly related to writing, some of them may be on […]
dawn.vogel | August 12, 2022
This week’s image prompts are based on a keyword of tower and some interesting images that pulled up! The first image shows a few towers with rustic stone bases but ornate upper portions. One is in the foreground, with a couple more in the background. The sky above them is blue with a few clouds, […]
dawn.vogel | August 11, 2022
Did you know that I have a Patreon? I do! It’s a way for my fans to throw a small amount of money my way to support my writing and learn about what I’m working on! I’m already thinking about my 2023 publications, which is relevant to my Patreon because backers at the $3 or […]
dawn.vogel | August 10, 2022
Reading: Books to review, including one that I’ll be writing a blurb for! Watching: The show I’ve been waiting for since 1995, Sandman, is finally out! Squee! Still finishing up Umbrella Academy, The Owl House, and other assorted shows. Listening To: The usual assortment of K-pop. Really digging CraXilver and Xdinary Heroes, plus Stray Kids just dropped […]
dawn.vogel | August 9, 2022
The title of my story, “A Burrito is not a Sandwich,” was absolutely meant to be a reference to the ongoing battles over what is and what is not a sandwich. Personally, I subscribe to the cube theory, by which a burrito absolutely is not a sandwich. But what started for me as a story […]
dawn.vogel | August 8, 2022
I started the year deciding that I didn’t want to write longer works for 2022, unless I came up with an idea that absolutely had to be longer. And I wound up with one of those ideas. And then a second one, when I realized the first one wouldn’t work as I had planned it. […]
dawn.vogel | August 5, 2022
If you’re looking for a name to give something in a story, or you just want a random place to write about, check out Muddle’s Wilderness Location Generator (and the other ones at the top right of the page). You can narrow down the type of wilderness location (or other type of being/location) if you […]
dawn.vogel | August 4, 2022
I had two new sci-fi pieces out in July, one poem and one short story! My poem, “The Way Forward is a Maze,” appeared in the Veterans of Alien Wars issue of Eye to the Telescope. I wrote this poem for this call for submissions, and it turned out well. The poem is about how […]
