dawn.vogel | October 22, 2026
My story “Queen of the Roller Disco” in This Book Has Ghosts in It is a flash fiction piece I wrote back in 2023, with the inspiration of being “a place you love is haunted” and a list of words that included “skate,” which immediately jumped out at me. From 2010-2012, I was first a referee […]
dawn.vogel | October 19, 2026
This week’s prompt in the Big Pink Pink book is a little bit blurry (at least this photo). It’s got some stickers at the top and bottom of the page. At the top left, there’s a yellow rectangular digital clock showing the time 7:27. To the right of that is a strip of washi tape […]
dawn.vogel | October 16, 2026
Here’s another batch of writing prompts from the DefConOne Instagram account! Write a piece about a robot with a sense of wonder. Write a piece about a small animal with a big appetite. Write a piece involving a panicking about an ultimately inconsequential thing. Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for writing prompts on Fridays, or check […]
dawn.vogel | October 14, 2026
Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. Today, I’m talking about the “Writing Hopeful Futures” presentation with BrightFlame. This presentation talked briefly about why authors say that they’re more drawn to writing dystopian stories rather than hopeful ones, but then focused […]
dawn.vogel | October 13, 2026
My latest collection, Unfixed Timelines 4: Essays and Short Stories of a History That Never Was, is now out! 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, and a young girl meeting a strange […]
dawn.vogel | October 12, 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 “Authors as Reviewers and Bookbloggers” panel that I moderated! I always love moderating panels, as it’s an opportunity for me to ask questions and learn stuff from […]
dawn.vogel | October 9, 2026
On Monday, I shared Prompt 14 from the Big Pink Book, and now I’m back to show you how I used it! Rather than writing a specific piece for this prompt, I came up with some ideas for story titles, sometimes with additional notes. They’re written somewhat haphazardly across the page, not in any particular […]
dawn.vogel | October 8, 2026
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 35 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 7 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 10 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 38 I didn’t manage to submit a lot of stories in September, but I managed to have more out at the […]
dawn.vogel | October 7, 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’m talking about “Recovering Creativity After Burnout,” presented by Dianna Gunn. As someone who hit the wall of burnout face first last year, this was an extremely valuable presentation for me to […]
dawn.vogel | October 6, 2026
“Evergreen” and “The Magic Matters” are two very short stories in Chimerical Remembrance. “Evergreen” is flash fiction, and “The Magic Matters” is microfiction. What these two stories have in common is that they’re about family relationships that have major or minor issues. “Evergreen” involves the relationship between a non-binary adult child and their terminally ill mother, […]
