dawn.vogel | January 30, 2026
We’re almost through January now, so here’s February’s writing prompts! This month, I’ve picked prompts from art challenges. The first two columns are definitely more February themed, but without too much overlap. The third column adds a nice random element to the mix! Column 1 is Doodlewash’s February 2025 prompts. Column 2 is from Natural Beach Living […]
dawn.vogel | January 27, 2026
I have two flash fiction pieces that share themes of longing, dreams, and also colors: “The Train Station That Knows What You Need” and “We Dream in Color.” The first story, “The Train Station That Knows What You Need,” is a fairly dreamy surreal piece about a remote Japanese train station with abnormal properties. The […]
dawn.vogel | January 22, 2026
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! Both “To Live is […]
dawn.vogel | January 14, 2026
Power to Yield and Other Stories by Bogi Takács (Broken Eye Books, 2024) is a beautiful collection of speculative fiction stories centering queer characters, Jewish characters, and sometimes characters who have become plants. Standout stories in the collection for me included “And I Entreated,” which features a Jewish woman who has been converted into a […]
dawn.vogel | January 13, 2026
The Devil tarot card represents being trapped and negative attachments. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a microfiction piece. The haiku, “a strong appeal of” (after its first line), eschews the hoarding of wealth, a theme echoed in the microfiction piece, “Chrysopoeia.” The latter piece features a […]
dawn.vogel | January 8, 2026
So what’s 2026 looking like? Well, I’m not entirely sure yet. I don’t think I’m completely through my burnout, though I’m making progress. My day job remains hectic. I’ve also been dealing with some health issues on account of getting older (minor in the grand scheme of things, thankfully), so even my best intentions for […]
dawn.vogel | January 7, 2026
My numbers for 2025: Stories out at the end of 2024: 47 New Stories Written: 30 (12 flash fiction, 8 drabbles, 10 poems) Old Stories Making the Rounds: 117 Total Submissions: 258 Total Rejections: 200 Total Acceptances: 23 Stories out at the end of 2025: 38 In 2024, I noted that my subs were a […]
dawn.vogel | January 6, 2026
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 30 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 12 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 20 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 38 My December numbers are up a little from November, as I worked on getting some submissions out into the […]
