dawn.vogel | October 31, 2025
I’m not entirely sure where October went, but here we are at the end of the month, ready for the November 2025 writing prompts! This month, the first column comes from Kick in the Creatives. The second column is from Doodlewash. The third column is a new-to-me art challenge, Gouachevember. There’s a very small amount […]
dawn.vogel | October 30, 2025
While most of the stories in Unfixed Timelines 3 are set in the United States, I have a few pieces that are set elsewhere in the world. “Eyes of Fire, Eyes of Smoke” is the story of a mother and daughter set in the Andes of South America and relies heavily on the legends of the […]
dawn.vogel | October 29, 2025
I’ve mentioned before that I really love music in video games, and as someone who listens to a lot of musical genres, it pretty much doesn’t matter what game it is. That being said, I started listening to heavy metal in high school and never really stopped (yes, even now in my K-pop era). So […]
dawn.vogel | October 28, 2025
My collection, Chimerical Remembrance: Tales of Contemporary Fantasy, has been out for just over a month now! Within its pages, you’ll find microfiction, flash fiction, short stories, and poetry, with a mix of moods and themes. There are supernatural creatures, unusual places, and a variety of professions, all in settings that look a lot like the […]
dawn.vogel | October 27, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference in July, I watched a panel called “Troubling Tropes,” which was a fantastic panel for learning about tropes that can be problematic and how to work with them. The panelists talked about identifying tropes that are problematic, particularly those that rely on stereotypes for people from marginalized groups. They also […]
dawn.vogel | October 24, 2025
It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece about a grocery store in a soap opera. Write a piece where a wicked person is squashed. Write a cozy piece with a stuffed animal and hot cocoa. Then change something to make it weird! Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for […]
dawn.vogel | October 23, 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! “Salt Circle” and […]
dawn.vogel | October 22, 2025
Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention, edited by Rhiannon Rasmussen and dave ring (Neon Hemlock, 2023), is a fantastic anthology of speculative fiction stories (mainly sci-fi, but not entirely) featuring queer characters and filled with mecha and other technologies that are deeply integral to the stories. As usual with anthologies, I have a handful […]
dawn.vogel | October 21, 2025
The Death tarot card represents transitions, new beginnings, and change. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a flash fiction piece. The haiku, “Scorching summer heat” (titled after the first line), is a fantastical twist on changing seasons. The flash fiction piece, “The Arroyo Fiasco,” follows a geyser […]
dawn.vogel | October 20, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference in July, I was the moderator for a panel called “Shared Worlds: Writing Multi-Author Series.” I was excited to be on this one since a lot of my writing is in the Cobalt City Universe, which currently has six authors actively writing in the same shared world. The panelists talked […]
