Brown Bag Lit
@brownbaglit.bsky.social
An online writing community with classes, events and more with @shastagrant.bsky.social and @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social
https://www.brownbaglit.com
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#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.
Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.
Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.
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I brought Charlotte Taylor Fryar's Potomac Fever down to Foundry Branch (a tributary of the Potomac River in Rock Creek Park)!
The author, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, will join us over at @brownbaglit.bsky.social on Monday, November 17, 12 - 1 pm EST).
www.brownbaglit.com/events
The author, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, will join us over at @brownbaglit.bsky.social on Monday, November 17, 12 - 1 pm EST).
www.brownbaglit.com/events
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I brought Charlotte Taylor Fryar's Potomac Fever down to Foundry Branch (a tributary of the Potomac River in Rock Creek Park)!
The author, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, will join us over at @brownbaglit.bsky.social on Monday, November 17, 12 - 1 pm EST).
www.brownbaglit.com/events
The author, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, will join us over at @brownbaglit.bsky.social on Monday, November 17, 12 - 1 pm EST).
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Next up at Brown Bag Lit:
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Next up at Brown Bag Lit:
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events
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Join us virtually on November 17th to hear Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller discussing how she used historical research and environmental observation to reveal hidden histories within a specific place in Potomac Fever. Thank you to Brown Bag Lit for hosting this event!
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Join us virtually on November 17th to hear Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller discussing how she used historical research and environmental observation to reveal hidden histories within a specific place in Potomac Fever. Thank you to Brown Bag Lit for hosting this event!
Attention folks in the DC area - co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social will be reading with the DC/MD chapter for Writers for Democratic Action. Hope you can stop by and say, "hi!"
I'm excited to be reading here - join us!
We invite you to the second iteration of Taking Heart: DC Writers on Courage, organized by the DC/MD chapter of Writers for Democratic Action. We will gather in the unique Dupont Underground art space (beneath Dupont Circle) on Sunday, November 16 at 2 p.m.
We invite you to the second iteration of Taking Heart: DC Writers on Courage, organized by the DC/MD chapter of Writers for Democratic Action. We will gather in the unique Dupont Underground art space (beneath Dupont Circle) on Sunday, November 16 at 2 p.m.
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Attention folks in the DC area - co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social will be reading with the DC/MD chapter for Writers for Democratic Action. Hope you can stop by and say, "hi!"
We look forward to featuring @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social's November Author's Corner spotlight, Charlotte Taylor Fryar, author of Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation's River!
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Monday, November 17, 2025
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Monday, November 17, 2025
Introducing our November Author's Corner spotlight, Charlotte Taylor Fryar, author of Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation's River! She is a writer, historian, educator, and herbalist with a PhD in American Studies who lives less than 700 feet from the Potomac River. Learn more at link in bio!
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We look forward to featuring @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social's November Author's Corner spotlight, Charlotte Taylor Fryar, author of Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation's River!
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Monday, November 17, 2025
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Monday, November 17, 2025
We sent out our November Brown Bag Lit news! If you're not on our mailing list, DM me and I'll add you!
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November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We sent out our November Brown Bag Lit news! If you're not on our mailing list, DM me and I'll add you!
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#RandomWritingPrompt:
Is there a recipe that defines your character or you? Would you go so far as to ask to have it placed on a gravestone? Write the recipe, describe the taste and write about the preparation of the dish and the celebration in which the dish is enjoyed!
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Is there a recipe that defines your character or you? Would you go so far as to ask to have it placed on a gravestone? Write the recipe, describe the taste and write about the preparation of the dish and the celebration in which the dish is enjoyed!
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Recipes to die for: Rosie Grant catalogues recipes from gravestones in new cookbook
Some people treasure family recipes so much that they've etched the recipes into their gravestones.
www.wbur.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#RandomWritingPrompt:
Is there a recipe that defines your character or you? Would you go so far as to ask to have it placed on a gravestone? Write the recipe, describe the taste and write about the preparation of the dish and the celebration in which the dish is enjoyed!
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Is there a recipe that defines your character or you? Would you go so far as to ask to have it placed on a gravestone? Write the recipe, describe the taste and write about the preparation of the dish and the celebration in which the dish is enjoyed!
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Our November Brown Bag Lit event features Charlotte Taylor Fryar, author of Potomac Fever, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, about writing her essay collection and researching the environmental, racial and other histories of the Potomac River.
October 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our November Brown Bag Lit event features Charlotte Taylor Fryar, author of Potomac Fever, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, about writing her essay collection and researching the environmental, racial and other histories of the Potomac River.
'Tis the Halloween season! For today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit, write a list of ten real or new (made-up) Halloween names. For example, I'm loving the "Warty Goblin" pumpkins! Then, see if you can work them into a short story, essay or poem.
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
'Tis the Halloween season! For today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit, write a list of ten real or new (made-up) Halloween names. For example, I'm loving the "Warty Goblin" pumpkins! Then, see if you can work them into a short story, essay or poem.
Thank you to Naomi Thiers for her review of Jessica Simon’s poetry collection, Built of All I Shape and Name (Kelsay Books) in Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal!
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thank you to Naomi Thiers for her review of Jessica Simon’s poetry collection, Built of All I Shape and Name (Kelsay Books) in Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal!
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...
If you are in the DMV, come hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social next week read poems!
DMV friends:
One week from today I'll be reading poems in response to art by women artists alongside other writers sharing their work in response to art, too.
I hope you can join us! It should be a wonderful, interdisciplinary event hosted by IA&A at Hillyer and The Inner Loop.
link below -
One week from today I'll be reading poems in response to art by women artists alongside other writers sharing their work in response to art, too.
I hope you can join us! It should be a wonderful, interdisciplinary event hosted by IA&A at Hillyer and The Inner Loop.
link below -
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If you are in the DMV, come hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social next week read poems!
Congratulations to co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social -
I am very excited to stream the FILM PREMIERE of Baby Book this Sat. at 8 pm EST! Thank you to Lauren Spavelko for first setting some poems from Viable (Lily Poetry Review Books) to music and Nicole Asel and Madeline Harvey with Machmer Media for creating these films.
October 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Congratulations to co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social -
Today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art.
While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.
Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art.
While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.
October 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art.
While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.
Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art.
While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.
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Get my hot tips on agent querying (which I am very sorry to tell you involves a massive spreadsheet and lots of research) at the link. 😀
Thank you to @bookbent.bsky.social for visiting today to discuss her debut novel, The Belles, and all about her publishing path with @shastagrant.bsky.social!
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
October 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Get my hot tips on agent querying (which I am very sorry to tell you involves a massive spreadsheet and lots of research) at the link. 😀
Happy birthday, @shastagrant.bsky.social!!
Join me in wishing a very happy birthday to @brownbaglit.bsky.social co-founder @shastagrant.bsky.social! Here we are on a (break from :-) a writing retreat in 2014 in Indianapolis!
October 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Happy birthday, @shastagrant.bsky.social!!
Hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social tomorrow -
I look forward to presenting poems from Viable (Lily Poetry Review Books) and thoughts tomorrow (Friday) at the Virtual Global Symposium on Pregnancy Loss. (I will go on from 4:10 – 5 pm EST over zoom.)
Join us (it's free and on Zoom!)
uml.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us (it's free and on Zoom!)
uml.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social tomorrow -
#RandomWritingPrompt: There are many different kinds of languages, including constructed languages (like Esperanto.)
Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.
Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#RandomWritingPrompt: There are many different kinds of languages, including constructed languages (like Esperanto.)
Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.
Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.
Thank you to @bookbent.bsky.social for visiting today to discuss her debut novel, The Belles, and all about her publishing path with @shastagrant.bsky.social!
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Thank you to @bookbent.bsky.social for visiting today to discuss her debut novel, The Belles, and all about her publishing path with @shastagrant.bsky.social!
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
*TODAY!*
Register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Join Brown Bag Lit next week for our Oct. event!
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
October 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
*TODAY!*
Register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
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Excited that @brownbaglit.bsky.social will be hosting @bookbent.bsky.social
tomorrow at noon EST to discuss her debut novel, The Belles
(Simon & Schuster).
The novel - dark academia - is hauntingly creepy. Don't take it on your walk in the woods. Better yet, don't go into the woods.
tomorrow at noon EST to discuss her debut novel, The Belles
(Simon & Schuster).
The novel - dark academia - is hauntingly creepy. Don't take it on your walk in the woods. Better yet, don't go into the woods.
October 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Excited that @brownbaglit.bsky.social will be hosting @bookbent.bsky.social
tomorrow at noon EST to discuss her debut novel, The Belles
(Simon & Schuster).
The novel - dark academia - is hauntingly creepy. Don't take it on your walk in the woods. Better yet, don't go into the woods.
tomorrow at noon EST to discuss her debut novel, The Belles
(Simon & Schuster).
The novel - dark academia - is hauntingly creepy. Don't take it on your walk in the woods. Better yet, don't go into the woods.
*Tomorrow* at Brown Bag Lit: @bookbent.bsky.social
will read from The Belles and answer your ?s about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
Get in the mood with this playlist: blog.freshfiction.com/playlist-the...
will read from The Belles and answer your ?s about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
Get in the mood with this playlist: blog.freshfiction.com/playlist-the...
Playlist | THE BELLES by Lacey N. Dunham – Fresh Fiction
blog.freshfiction.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
*Tomorrow* at Brown Bag Lit: @bookbent.bsky.social
will read from The Belles and answer your ?s about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
Get in the mood with this playlist: blog.freshfiction.com/playlist-the...
will read from The Belles and answer your ?s about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
Get in the mood with this playlist: blog.freshfiction.com/playlist-the...
What are you reading for Banned Books Week?
more here: bannedbooksweek.org
Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss:
Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America
You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...
more here: bannedbooksweek.org
Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss:
Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America
You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...
October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What are you reading for Banned Books Week?
more here: bannedbooksweek.org
Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss:
Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America
You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...
more here: bannedbooksweek.org
Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss:
Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America
You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...
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Want to ask me your pressing questions about writing, finding the right agent, and how to survive the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author? Join me next Tuesday for a free lunchtime chat! buymeacoffee.com/brownbaglit/... @brownbaglit.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Want to ask me your pressing questions about writing, finding the right agent, and how to survive the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author? Join me next Tuesday for a free lunchtime chat! buymeacoffee.com/brownbaglit/... @brownbaglit.bsky.social
Join Brown Bag Lit next week for our Oct. event!
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
October 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Join Brown Bag Lit next week for our Oct. event!
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.