Megan Savage
@meganloverdesavage.bsky.social
Writer, Community College Faculty, Fig Companion, Carolyn Moore Writers House Residency, PDX OR
Work in The Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Sixth Finch, Portland Review, Subtropics, etc.
Called: “Story Witch,” “Pure Light in Human Form”
Work in The Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Sixth Finch, Portland Review, Subtropics, etc.
Called: “Story Witch,” “Pure Light in Human Form”
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New followers! An intro: I’m a queer multi-genre writer finishing a short story manuscript. My work is devastating, funny, weird/absurd, fantastical, & about connection. Black Warrior Review nominated this one for Best of the Net 2024 (on grief and professional cuddling): bwr.ua.edu/project/spoo...
One of my students called Freytag’s triangle/the plot checkmark “the allen wrench” and I have never been so delighted.
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
One of my students called Freytag’s triangle/the plot checkmark “the allen wrench” and I have never been so delighted.
Glad to get recognition on this deeply weird, deeply intimate, and artistically important-to-me story, which is in the collection I’m working to place. Thanks to American Short Fiction (and congratulations to the winners).
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Glad to get recognition on this deeply weird, deeply intimate, and artistically important-to-me story, which is in the collection I’m working to place. Thanks to American Short Fiction (and congratulations to the winners).
Kind personal rejection from a dream publication (after a year hanging onto the piece) and long-listed for a prize at another dream pub (same piece). O the bittersweet nature of almost!
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Kind personal rejection from a dream publication (after a year hanging onto the piece) and long-listed for a prize at another dream pub (same piece). O the bittersweet nature of almost!
The naked avarice and oligarchic bent of eliminating federal e-file in the midst of this.
(Adding to the “there is much to be disturbed about in the continued collapse but this one got my goat today” list).
(Adding to the “there is much to be disturbed about in the continued collapse but this one got my goat today” list).
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The naked avarice and oligarchic bent of eliminating federal e-file in the midst of this.
(Adding to the “there is much to be disturbed about in the continued collapse but this one got my goat today” list).
(Adding to the “there is much to be disturbed about in the continued collapse but this one got my goat today” list).
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Go get ‘em, EB White’s granddaughter. 🫶🏾📚 #dhs
E B White's granddaughter says that the author of Charlotte's Web detested fascism in all forms and would be revolted by Greg Bovino's stealing of the work's title to describe his domestic terror operations. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation | CNN
In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Go get ‘em, EB White’s granddaughter. 🫶🏾📚 #dhs
Heartbroken/furious at the detention (& possible deportation to Vietnam) of the Happy Sparrow owner. I wrote the obituary for my sister-friend at their cafe, over kolachkes, deep in grief and feeling cared for. gofundme in the comments — donate for legal fees and possible family resettlement.
Longtime Lake Oswego business owner detained by ICE, faces deportation to Vietnam - The Portland Tribune
The Quachs lived the American dream until it became a nightmare. After the fall of Saigon, Danny and Mary Quach’s families separately immigrated to the United States and the two eventually met in Hous...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Heartbroken/furious at the detention (& possible deportation to Vietnam) of the Happy Sparrow owner. I wrote the obituary for my sister-friend at their cafe, over kolachkes, deep in grief and feeling cared for. gofundme in the comments — donate for legal fees and possible family resettlement.
My story “Silent as a Fish” was chosen to open 34 Orchard Issue #12. A mashup of history & fable, the story remixes the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire with Grimms’ The Six Swans, in which a woman is bound to silence and threatened by fire, but holds steadfast to rescue her brothers. 34orchard.com
34 Orchard
A literary journal that takes you dark places.
34orchard.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My story “Silent as a Fish” was chosen to open 34 Orchard Issue #12. A mashup of history & fable, the story remixes the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire with Grimms’ The Six Swans, in which a woman is bound to silence and threatened by fire, but holds steadfast to rescue her brothers. 34orchard.com
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Being a poet is the most complete and insane inversion of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Being a poet is the most complete and insane inversion of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
“At tonight’s Portland City Council meeting, a representative from the letter carriers union said mail carriers will report ICE and DHS when they see them in neighborhoods. ‘Mail carriers are on every street every day, so we’re a big set of eyes and ears.’”
(video in source)
(video in source)
Portland mail carriers union says they will report ICE sightings
“At tonight’s Portland City Council meeting, a representative from the letter carriers union said mail carriers will report ICE and DHS when they see them in neighborhoods. “Mail carriers are…
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November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“At tonight’s Portland City Council meeting, a representative from the letter carriers union said mail carriers will report ICE and DHS when they see them in neighborhoods. ‘Mail carriers are on every street every day, so we’re a big set of eyes and ears.’”
(video in source)
(video in source)
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No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
Well, fuck.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Well, fuck.
This this this.
What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This this this.
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During Thanksgiving and holidays, people want to do food drives where they collect canned goods etc... and I really would love to offer that food banks need MONEY so if you can collect and donate MONEY please do that. They can then use those funds to purchase what's needed AT DISCOUNTS.
October 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
During Thanksgiving and holidays, people want to do food drives where they collect canned goods etc... and I really would love to offer that food banks need MONEY so if you can collect and donate MONEY please do that. They can then use those funds to purchase what's needed AT DISCOUNTS.
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More scenes from the Portland war zone.
(Neighborhood house, not mine).
(Neighborhood house, not mine).
October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
More scenes from the Portland war zone.
(Neighborhood house, not mine).
(Neighborhood house, not mine).
This is what I’m aiming for when I step on conversational toes, cooperative overlap. But since I live in Portland instead of the Northeast, it usually means I’m apologizing after the fact.
I know it’s not technically polite, but I love having a conversation with other people who are comfortable with short interjecting interruptions. To me it makes the conversation feel more like something we’re weaving together rather than alternating individual presentations. It feels more alive.
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is what I’m aiming for when I step on conversational toes, cooperative overlap. But since I live in Portland instead of the Northeast, it usually means I’m apologizing after the fact.
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Portland never stops being Portland.
October 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Portland never stops being Portland.
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If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
My husband “The Spanish could sing about municipal water policy and it would make you want to start a revolution — and then fuck.”
October 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My husband “The Spanish could sing about municipal water policy and it would make you want to start a revolution — and then fuck.”
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NEW: Despite Trump's appearing to waver on sending troops into Portland, Pete Hegseth issued this memo today purporting to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard.
This is an exhibit in Oregon's just-filed lawsuit challenging the deployment. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...
This is an exhibit in Oregon's just-filed lawsuit challenging the deployment. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...
September 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NEW: Despite Trump's appearing to waver on sending troops into Portland, Pete Hegseth issued this memo today purporting to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard.
This is an exhibit in Oregon's just-filed lawsuit challenging the deployment. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...
This is an exhibit in Oregon's just-filed lawsuit challenging the deployment. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...
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There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
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Morning walk
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Morning walk
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too many people think the answer to "I've written something, what now" is getting published when really the answer is cleaning your room, making a roast, refilling the bird feeder. writing is also the living we do. it's not a way to get recognition in the same way that flossing isn't.
September 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
too many people think the answer to "I've written something, what now" is getting published when really the answer is cleaning your room, making a roast, refilling the bird feeder. writing is also the living we do. it's not a way to get recognition in the same way that flossing isn't.