Joy Baglio
@joybaglio.bsky.social
Speculative Writer: Fiction in Ploughshares, Tin House, etc. & forthcoming in One Story. Founder of @pvww.bsky.social. Rep'ed by @peter23.bsky.social. Novel in progress. Adventurer.
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Joy Baglio
@joybaglio.bsky.social
· Jul 23
Hard copy finally arrived! Thank you Ploughshares, Rebecca Makkai, and all of the first readers of this short story! So grateful to have “Frog Heart” in this summer issue of Ploughshares!
Just gave my (in-progress novel) characters enneagram types, and it's maybe the best thing I could have done to make sense of their complicated dynamics. It was also strangely obvious what types they were. Anyone else do this, or something similar?
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just gave my (in-progress novel) characters enneagram types, and it's maybe the best thing I could have done to make sense of their complicated dynamics. It was also strangely obvious what types they were. Anyone else do this, or something similar?
Daily novel-writing thoughts. A fairly productive morning!
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Daily novel-writing thoughts. A fairly productive morning!
TOMORROW, Sunday 11/9 from 1-3pm ET! Join me and these wonderful author-instructors at our 10-Month Manuscript Program Open House & Reading! Learn more / RSVP: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
TOMORROW, Sunday 11/9 from 1-3pm ET! Join me and these wonderful author-instructors at our 10-Month Manuscript Program Open House & Reading! Learn more / RSVP: mailchi.mp/pioneervalle...
Excited for our open house, which will feature readings from talented alumni Laura Green (Sister Creatures) and Mary Warren Foulk! Hope to see you there!
Writing a book? Looking for a supportive, longer term program? Our 10-Month Manuscript Program might be for you! Join us at our virtual 11/9 Open House to learn more! RSVP + more info here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/manuscript-p...
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Excited for our open house, which will feature readings from talented alumni Laura Green (Sister Creatures) and Mary Warren Foulk! Hope to see you there!
Spent yesterday learning the ropes of Scrivener and moving my two novel projects over there. Google Docs has served me well, and still does with short fiction, but these story worlds and plots are too complicated, and I need some of the Scrivener features. So far, so good!
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Spent yesterday learning the ropes of Scrivener and moving my two novel projects over there. Google Docs has served me well, and still does with short fiction, but these story worlds and plots are too complicated, and I need some of the Scrivener features. So far, so good!
Finished final edits last night on my forthcoming short story in One Story (editor Karen Friedman is a brilliant sorceress of her craft). It will be the December issue of One Story! If you subscribe, I can't wait for you to read it! I think it adds something interesting to the AI conversation.
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Finished final edits last night on my forthcoming short story in One Story (editor Karen Friedman is a brilliant sorceress of her craft). It will be the December issue of One Story! If you subscribe, I can't wait for you to read it! I think it adds something interesting to the AI conversation.
Trying to catch up on a million things (work, writing, emails) but of course needed to drop everything and make a quick flourless chocolate cake. (It’s that kind of day.)
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Trying to catch up on a million things (work, writing, emails) but of course needed to drop everything and make a quick flourless chocolate cake. (It’s that kind of day.)
This @somers.bsky.social story in @grantamag.bsky.social is so good.
New story by me in Granta today about inept swingers on the Hudson Valley granta.com/pleasantries...
Pleasantries
‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This @somers.bsky.social story in @grantamag.bsky.social is so good.
Reposted by Joy Baglio
Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉
Loved being a Visiting Writer earlier this week at The Williston School, in Easthampton MA! I taught a lesson on speculative fiction & gave a reading to a very full house, in what felt like a Hogwarts hall! Big thanks to the students and faculty for being so welcoming!
September 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Loved being a Visiting Writer earlier this week at The Williston School, in Easthampton MA! I taught a lesson on speculative fiction & gave a reading to a very full house, in what felt like a Hogwarts hall! Big thanks to the students and faculty for being so welcoming!
Stuck in your writing project? Never underestimate the power of the smallest engagement with your story: read a paragraph, think about it while on a walk, record your thoughts. The smallest engagement can crack open the door to breakthroughs & flow. Whenever you struggle, lower the bar for yourself.
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Stuck in your writing project? Never underestimate the power of the smallest engagement with your story: read a paragraph, think about it while on a walk, record your thoughts. The smallest engagement can crack open the door to breakthroughs & flow. Whenever you struggle, lower the bar for yourself.
Ran a 5K up a mountain on Sunday, and it was a great time. Glorious views of the Connecticut River Valley at the top!
September 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Ran a 5K up a mountain on Sunday, and it was a great time. Glorious views of the Connecticut River Valley at the top!
Loved hosting (and reading with) these incredible writers for the Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop fall literary reading, Words Under the Stars! Each reading was riveting. Thanks to all who joined us in Florence, MA!
September 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Loved hosting (and reading with) these incredible writers for the Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop fall literary reading, Words Under the Stars! Each reading was riveting. Thanks to all who joined us in Florence, MA!
Just hosted our first Writing Retreat at Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop and it couldn’t have been more wonderful! Such a lovely group of writers, perfect weather, a gorgeous venue, what felt like infinite coffee (first time brewing a giant urn of it!) Feeling grateful for creative community!
September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Just hosted our first Writing Retreat at Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop and it couldn’t have been more wonderful! Such a lovely group of writers, perfect weather, a gorgeous venue, what felt like infinite coffee (first time brewing a giant urn of it!) Feeling grateful for creative community!
TOMORROW, Sat. 9/20 at 7pm at the Florence Civic Center, in Northampton MA! I'll be hosting this + reading alongside authors Allegra Hyde, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Melenie Freedom Flynn, Gail Thomas, Peter Medeiros, & Yago Colas! We'll also share kernels of writing wisdom! Join us if you're around!
September 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
TOMORROW, Sat. 9/20 at 7pm at the Florence Civic Center, in Northampton MA! I'll be hosting this + reading alongside authors Allegra Hyde, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Melenie Freedom Flynn, Gail Thomas, Peter Medeiros, & Yago Colas! We'll also share kernels of writing wisdom! Join us if you're around!
Just got an acceptance from The Arctic Circle Residency! I'll be going to Svalbard in July to work on the final voyage sections of my mermaid novel, on a tall ship in the Arctic Ocean (between Norway & the North Pole!) & I couldn’t be more excited for this merging of writer-self and adventurer-self.
September 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Just got an acceptance from The Arctic Circle Residency! I'll be going to Svalbard in July to work on the final voyage sections of my mermaid novel, on a tall ship in the Arctic Ocean (between Norway & the North Pole!) & I couldn’t be more excited for this merging of writer-self and adventurer-self.
I need to be able to see the possibility in a piece of writing in order to invest myself in it and the process. That process, for me, is often a wild balancing between this (which leads me to go back and polish the beginning) and the need to let it be messy and fragmented and move toward completion.
September 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I need to be able to see the possibility in a piece of writing in order to invest myself in it and the process. That process, for me, is often a wild balancing between this (which leads me to go back and polish the beginning) and the need to let it be messy and fragmented and move toward completion.
Looks like I'll definitely be at #AWP26 in Baltimore in March! Three panels accepted, one that I'll be moderating (Speculating the Machine), with some of my favorite writers. Keep us on your radar if you're going to AWP and want to talk dystopias, AI, & teaching genre fiction!
August 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Looks like I'll definitely be at #AWP26 in Baltimore in March! Three panels accepted, one that I'll be moderating (Speculating the Machine), with some of my favorite writers. Keep us on your radar if you're going to AWP and want to talk dystopias, AI, & teaching genre fiction!
Some good news this week! I have long known about the wonderful residencies and fellowships happening through The Porches, in Virginia, and I’m so excited to have this to look forward to! Thank you to the committee and to visionary founder Trudy Hale! Very grateful.
August 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Some good news this week! I have long known about the wonderful residencies and fellowships happening through The Porches, in Virginia, and I’m so excited to have this to look forward to! Thank you to the committee and to visionary founder Trudy Hale! Very grateful.
Can't get over how good this is: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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August 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Can't get over how good this is: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
10am writing time beginning! If you're here / writing, share what you're working on and/or thinking about in your WIP. I'm reworking the opening. Thinking about the balance between the plot moving, & what the reader needs to know to care (especially in a speculative story, where context is needed).
August 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
10am writing time beginning! If you're here / writing, share what you're working on and/or thinking about in your WIP. I'm reworking the opening. Thinking about the balance between the plot moving, & what the reader needs to know to care (especially in a speculative story, where context is needed).
Anyone have a theory as to why the words flow better on rainy days? Is this true for most writers?
July 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Anyone have a theory as to why the words flow better on rainy days? Is this true for most writers?
Morning writing situation:
July 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Morning writing situation:
"Learn your craft, and persist. The rest, as Henry James said, is the madness of art."
- Kim Addonizio
- Kim Addonizio
July 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Learn your craft, and persist. The rest, as Henry James said, is the madness of art."
- Kim Addonizio
- Kim Addonizio
From Substack: This is the way. Maybe the only way?
July 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
From Substack: This is the way. Maybe the only way?