dawn.vogel | September 30, 2026
Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. This week, I’ll be talking about the “Elevator Pitch Workshop” with Patchree Jones, which I helped facilitate. Patchree has a communications background, so her approach to this topic was a fantastic way to look […]
dawn.vogel | September 29, 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! “I Won’t Open My […]
dawn.vogel | September 28, 2026
The thirteenth prompt in the Big Pink Book is another page with a lot of space to write. The stickers are situated at the top left and bottom right corners. In the top left corner, there are a total of five stickers, all in a column. The top sticker is a circle with purple at […]
dawn.vogel | September 25, 2026
It’s time for my favorite writing prompt batch of the year, the October prompts! I am an “Every day is Halloween” sort of person (as possibly evidenced by my improbable skeleton collection, which is the photo on this post (though the octopus skeleton is hiding under the filigree skull)), so October is one of my […]
dawn.vogel | September 24, 2026
This year at Flights of Foundry, I took part in several panels, gave a reading, and attended some other panels and a reading. Because I had a conflict on Sunday, I limited my participation to just two days, which meant I missed some really cool stuff, but I also got to do a bunch of […]
dawn.vogel | September 23, 2026
Amrit Kallar’s Gilded Spirits (Brown Books Publishing Group, 2025) is a novel split between historical and contemporary speculative fiction. Set in California in two very different time periods, the interwoven narrative of two women going about their lives, which overlap in extraordinary ways, provided a gripping narrative! The story begins with Emily in Gold Rush-era California […]
dawn.vogel | September 18, 2026
For the twelfth prompt from the Big Pink Book, I took the three elements together and combined them into an idea for writing a poem with the title “A Galaxy Draws a Self Portrait.” I haven’t finished it yet, but I’m posting a photo of my page of notes. At the top of the page, […]
dawn.vogel | September 17, 2026
A lot of the stories within Chimerical Remembrance come from personal experiences, though in general, the details have been changed substantially. “A Remnant of the Past” is one such story. The setting of the story is my first apartment, which was allegedly used as a morgue during the Civil War. However, when I did a bit […]
dawn.vogel | September 16, 2026
Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. First up is one of the panels I spoke on, “How to Find the Right Home for Poems and Short Stories“! During this panel, we talked about the challenges of submitting short fiction and […]
dawn.vogel | September 15, 2026
My latest collection, Unfixed Timelines 4: Essays and Short Stories of a History That Never Was, will be released by DefCon One Publishing on October 13! A young Mary Shelley learning about scientific experiments to reanimate the dead, the ghosts of two brothers helping a living girl outwit a fraudulent psychic, memories of an heirloom quilt, […]
