J.R. Dawson
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She/They. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (Tor, 2025). The First Bright Thing (Tor, 2023). Goldie award winner. ✡️🏳️🌈🍉Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jrdawsonwriter Rep: Stevie Finegan
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" Dawson’s writing is both sharp and wistful, reminiscent of V.E. Schwab at her best." - Washington Post J.R. Dawson (she/they) is the Golden Crown award-winning author of The First Bright Thing...
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I’m just so tired. It’s been nine plus years of this shit. I’m so so tired. And I don’t know what to do.
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I’m just so tired. It’s been nine plus years of this shit. I’m so so tired. And I don’t know what to do.
Finished the first book of the year! Highly highly recommend “Amelia, If Only.”
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Finished the first book of the year! Highly highly recommend “Amelia, If Only.”
Just sent my first submission of the year!!!!!!!!
January 2, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Just sent my first submission of the year!!!!!!!!
Hi, I'm a meteor, pneumonia, a speeding car on a Chicago street, a tornado, and my colon.
January 2, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Hi, I'm a meteor, pneumonia, a speeding car on a Chicago street, a tornado, and my colon.
Do any other authors keep thinking of how to revise your VERY PUBLISHED BOOK THAT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED FOR YEARS. This morning I woke up with a thought for TFBT and I'm like are you serious, brain, it's over.
January 2, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Do any other authors keep thinking of how to revise your VERY PUBLISHED BOOK THAT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED FOR YEARS. This morning I woke up with a thought for TFBT and I'm like are you serious, brain, it's over.
Happy New Year. Here's to trying to make 2026 better.
January 2, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Happy New Year. Here's to trying to make 2026 better.
LISTEN SOME OF US HAVENT WATCHED THE FINALE YET CAN YOU JUST FUCKING NOT? Seriously. It’s not even sunset.
December 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
LISTEN SOME OF US HAVENT WATCHED THE FINALE YET CAN YOU JUST FUCKING NOT? Seriously. It’s not even sunset.
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My little sapphic Hadestown rolls back onto shelves in paperback form this summer!
My little sapphic Hadestown rolls back onto shelves in paperback form this summer!
December 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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My little sapphic Hadestown rolls back onto shelves in paperback form this summer!
My little sapphic Hadestown rolls back onto shelves in paperback form this summer!
My newsletter with my Favorite Reads of 2025 is now live!
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Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live.
Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...
Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live.
Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...
Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...
Yeah I’m #oneofthetwo . Got Long Covid. Ended up in the hospital. @jonstewart2028.bsky.social I’ve been a major fan since the first season of TDS. You’re a guiding light. And this hurt.
December 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Yeah I’m #oneofthetwo . Got Long Covid. Ended up in the hospital. @jonstewart2028.bsky.social I’ve been a major fan since the first season of TDS. You’re a guiding light. And this hurt.
BARNES AND NOBLE PREORDER SALE FOR LIGHTHOUSE PAPERBACK!
My little sapphic Hadestown rolls back onto shelves in paperback form this summer!
My little sapphic Hadestown rolls back onto shelves in paperback form this summer!
December 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
BARNES AND NOBLE PREORDER SALE FOR LIGHTHOUSE PAPERBACK!
My little sapphic Hadestown rolls back onto shelves in paperback form this summer!
My little sapphic Hadestown rolls back onto shelves in paperback form this summer!
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Behold, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Issue 68 Table of Contents and Katy Shuttleworth cover! buff.ly/XXOlxsK
December 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My newest story comes out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social on January 6! It is very very different from anything else I’ve written.
a train is going down the tracks at a station with a building in the background
Alt: a train is going down the tracks at a station with a building in the background
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December 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
My newest story comes out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social on January 6! It is very very different from anything else I’ve written.
Okay I’m taking two days off so see you on the other side of the war. 💜✨🎄
December 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Okay I’m taking two days off so see you on the other side of the war. 💜✨🎄
Y'all. It's the day before Christmas Eve, and I have over 60k words on my adult WIP. I am on page 180 in first draft. I am done with part one of three.
It is becoming a book-shaped thing and it doesn't suck.
It is becoming a book-shaped thing and it doesn't suck.
a woman wearing a pair of pink square glasses covering her mouth
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December 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Y'all. It's the day before Christmas Eve, and I have over 60k words on my adult WIP. I am on page 180 in first draft. I am done with part one of three.
It is becoming a book-shaped thing and it doesn't suck.
It is becoming a book-shaped thing and it doesn't suck.
Oh wow. Adam the Woo is gone. Wow.
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Oh wow. Adam the Woo is gone. Wow.
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The lighthouse is always watching.
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The lighthouse is always watching.
New newsletter today! My next newsletter is going to be my top picks, so if that's of any interest to you, subscribe for free at www.jrdawsonwriter.com. This newsletter talks about free bookplates, update on dogs, upcoming story in Uncanny, and more!
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" Dawson’s writing is both sharp and wistful, reminiscent of V.E. Schwab at her best." - Washington Post J.R. Dawson (she/they) is the Golden Crown award-winning author of The First Bright Thing...
www.jrdawsonwriter.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
New newsletter today! My next newsletter is going to be my top picks, so if that's of any interest to you, subscribe for free at www.jrdawsonwriter.com. This newsletter talks about free bookplates, update on dogs, upcoming story in Uncanny, and more!
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My top 10 books of 2025! @alixeharrow.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social @jrdawson.bsky.social @joe-hill.bsky.social @allymalinenko.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @peterclines.com @claymcleod.bsky.social @jonathanjanz.bsky.social
Top Ten Books of 2025
I reviewed a lot of books this year. As I was putting this list together, I had to make a lot of tough choices. There were books that I really wanted to put in the top 10 but others beat them out. …
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December 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Tonight is the annual reading of Muppet Christmas Carol. I am ReADY.
Note: These are the two parts my wife and I have been assigned.
Note: These are the two parts my wife and I have been assigned.
a stuffed animal is standing in front of a brick building wearing a scarf and a jacket .
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December 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Tonight is the annual reading of Muppet Christmas Carol. I am ReADY.
Note: These are the two parts my wife and I have been assigned.
Note: These are the two parts my wife and I have been assigned.
Just watched a recap of the Stranger Things play and I can’t decide if it’s brilliant or weird or bad or all three.
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Just watched a recap of the Stranger Things play and I can’t decide if it’s brilliant or weird or bad or all three.
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My short story That’s Our Time, is free to read in The Sunday Morning Transport over the holidays.
It’s about a “chrono-therapist” who helps kids that have stopped aging, because their parents refuse to let go.
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It’s about a “chrono-therapist” who helps kids that have stopped aging, because their parents refuse to let go.
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SMT 2025 Holiday Storyflod Part 1
As is our tradition, for this holiday season, we’ve selected a few favorite stories from the first half or so of our fourth year to share — unlocked — with readers far and wide.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My short story That’s Our Time, is free to read in The Sunday Morning Transport over the holidays.
It’s about a “chrono-therapist” who helps kids that have stopped aging, because their parents refuse to let go.
❤️ open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...
It’s about a “chrono-therapist” who helps kids that have stopped aging, because their parents refuse to let go.
❤️ open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...
Just gonna put this out there.
Why are you writing if you don't like creating? Like ... we don't make money, only one in a billion get to be famous, what are you gaining if it's not the love of language, character, weaving it all together?
Fuck AI.
Why are you writing if you don't like creating? Like ... we don't make money, only one in a billion get to be famous, what are you gaining if it's not the love of language, character, weaving it all together?
Fuck AI.
December 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Just gonna put this out there.
Why are you writing if you don't like creating? Like ... we don't make money, only one in a billion get to be famous, what are you gaining if it's not the love of language, character, weaving it all together?
Fuck AI.
Why are you writing if you don't like creating? Like ... we don't make money, only one in a billion get to be famous, what are you gaining if it's not the love of language, character, weaving it all together?
Fuck AI.
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blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/
been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful
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been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful
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December 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/
been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful
ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor
been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful
ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor