dawn.vogel | December 4, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 43 Acceptances received: 4 Rejections received: 15 (+6) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 11 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 30 October and November wound up being very chaotic for me, with a lot of traveling, K-pop events, a wedding, […]
dawn.vogel | October 3, 2025
Time for more weird science to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! With this month being October, I thought it might be fun to focus more on spooky science, and the internet provided! The U.S. Department of Energy has a list celebrating spooky science from last October, which gives some brief summaries of […]
dawn.vogel | September 26, 2025
October is my favorite time of year, because it’s the official beginning of spooky season. And it’s time for the October 2025 writing prompts! This month, I decided to do things a little bit differently! I found a total of FIVE lists of prompts for the month of October. However, because everyone has spooky on […]
dawn.vogel | November 7, 2024
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 66 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 30 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 27 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 60 October was a pretty balanced month in terms of submissions. I ended the month with a few less pieces […]
dawn.vogel | November 5, 2024
I had one new story out in October this year–“Child’s Play” appeared in Bullet Points volume 7. This is a story involving a woman who’s on the run and the kids who inadvertently get caught up between her and her pursuers. It combines the military sci-fi theme of Bullet Points with a somewhat sweet story of […]
dawn.vogel | October 4, 2024
It’s time yet again for some historic events to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! This month’s list of historic event again comes from The History Place, which has a nice, simple way of presenting things. But I’ve also found October in Pop Culture History, which has a variety of facts about […]
dawn.vogel | October 2, 2024
Reading: Books to review, along with my current craft book, Millions of Suns by M.C. Benner Dixon and Sharon Fagan McDermott. Each of the two authors has an essay before the exercise for each chapter, and they’re all wonderful essays combined with stories from their lives, thus far! Watching: While we were sick, we finished season […]
dawn.vogel | September 27, 2024
October is almost upon us, which means it’s time for the October 2024 writing prompts! This month’s prompts are all taken from drawing challenges. As always, I devote column 1 to Mab’s Drawlloween Club, my favorite of the bunch. (She also has a printable calendar version if you prefer to have that to scribble notes […]
dawn.vogel | November 2, 2023
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 107 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 83 (+10) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 86 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 100 Pretty good numbers this month, with a bunch more submissions and some acceptances! The acceptances were for two very […]
dawn.vogel | September 29, 2023
It’s spooky season! I mean, in my world, spooky season is year round, but it’s time for the October 2023 writing prompts, and this month, it’s all about Halloween! Column 1, as it always is for the October prompts, is Mab’s Drawlloween Challenge. This one is always my favorite list, year after year! The hashtag […]
