dawn.vogel | August 29, 2025
Here we are with just days remaining before it’s September. I’m really not sure where this year went, though I am looking forward to autumn, my favorite season! This month, I’ve got a lot of autumn-related prompts, which means there’s a bit more overlap between the columns. Column 1 is the Swordtember prompt list for […]
dawn.vogel | August 28, 2025
Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “Things My Mothers Taught […]
dawn.vogel | August 27, 2025
If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]
dawn.vogel | August 26, 2025
I’ve published several collections of science fiction stories and poetry, ranging in topics and moods. Droplets from the Universe is where I collected the most joyful, humorous, and often hopeful stories of possible futures. This collection has a heavy concentration of poetry, and those poems include spacefaring people reminiscing about life on Earth, as well as […]
dawn.vogel | August 25, 2025
I spent five days at Worldcon in Seattle as a panelist/participant and also as an attendee. It was a wonderful time, filled with a lot of walking but also a lot of meeting and talking to people! Wednesday, I read from Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming to a small but appreciative audience. I also attended […]
dawn.vogel | August 22, 2025
It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! I’m now pretty much caught up on posting these, so they’ll appear roughly every six weeks now! Write a piece from an axolotl’s perspective. Write a piece about a young wizard cleaning their room. Write a piece about a mirror reflecting a non-existent […]
dawn.vogel | August 21, 2025
My next collection, Chimerical Remembrance: Tales of Contemporary Fantasy, is now available for pre-order, with a release date of September 23! The world is a strange place, and the stories and poetry within Chimerical Remembrance amplify that strangeness. From selkies and werewolves to witches and ghosts, exploring unusual places, botany, candy making, and more, you’ll […]
dawn.vogel | August 20, 2025
The Map of Lost Places, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Conner (Apex Book Company, 2024), is a wonderful anthology filled with the dark and strange recesses of our world and the stories that happen there. This anthology contains twenty-two stories, and it was difficult to narrow down those stories to just the ones […]
dawn.vogel | August 19, 2025
The Justice tarot card represents balance, fairness, and truth, with an additional meaning of “maybe” in answer to yes or no questions. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by two poems. The first poem, “Reading Wax,” looks at this “maybe” answer in presenting another sort of fortune telling in the form of […]
dawn.vogel | August 18, 2025
At Worldcon on Friday, I gave an Academic track presentation on “Historical Research for Non-Historians,” with an eye to folks writing historical fiction of all stripes, whether that be alternate history or fantastical history or something else! Because I’ve got training as a historian, I tend to do a lot of research for my historical […]
