Megan Giddings
@megiddings.bsky.social
I wrote Meet Me at the Crossroads (Amistad 2025)The Women Could Fly (Amistad 2022) and Lakewood (Amistad 2020). Boss, I'm tired.
www.megangiddings.com
www.megangiddings.com
lol more people emailed about this than when I was longlisted for an award (also, hi, Shawn! I'm glad you enjoyed it!)
I just finished this on the plane and I just stared straight ahead for a full minute. I met Megan Giddings at a festival a few years and she one of the coolest ppl there. Im so sorry im just getting to her books cuz
JFC.
Imagine the Tuskeegee syphilis experiment was funded by big Pharma
JFC.
Imagine the Tuskeegee syphilis experiment was funded by big Pharma
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
lol more people emailed about this than when I was longlisted for an award (also, hi, Shawn! I'm glad you enjoyed it!)
honestly, you can probably learn more about the world from the rustlings of oak leaves, the spirit chimes made from bronze or bone or the drumming upon of dented pans in the now burned temple of Zeus than asking musty chatgpt but whatever!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
honestly, you can probably learn more about the world from the rustlings of oak leaves, the spirit chimes made from bronze or bone or the drumming upon of dented pans in the now burned temple of Zeus than asking musty chatgpt but whatever!!!
I was poor for a lot of my life. And so as everyone who’s poor or struggling in capitalism knows, it is the small treats. When they yell at us for spending on the avocado toast, I go the opposite way. I say, You’re working like a dog, you’re underpaid. Get the avocado toast. What’s the point?
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I was poor for a lot of my life. And so as everyone who’s poor or struggling in capitalism knows, it is the small treats. When they yell at us for spending on the avocado toast, I go the opposite way. I say, You’re working like a dog, you’re underpaid. Get the avocado toast. What’s the point?
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Quite late for spooky season, but nonetheless: behold my witchy rec list! Incl
🏝️ Handmaid’s Tale, but witches from @megiddings.bsky.social!
✂️ suffragette witches with @alixeharrow.bsky.social!
🧹 Fast and Furious with broomsticks via @mythjae.bsky.social!
🏝️ Handmaid’s Tale, but witches from @megiddings.bsky.social!
✂️ suffragette witches with @alixeharrow.bsky.social!
🧹 Fast and Furious with broomsticks via @mythjae.bsky.social!
10 Wonderful Witchy Reads - Every Book a Doorway
Aka some of my favourite stories about witches!
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Quite late for spooky season, but nonetheless: behold my witchy rec list! Incl
🏝️ Handmaid’s Tale, but witches from @megiddings.bsky.social!
✂️ suffragette witches with @alixeharrow.bsky.social!
🧹 Fast and Furious with broomsticks via @mythjae.bsky.social!
🏝️ Handmaid’s Tale, but witches from @megiddings.bsky.social!
✂️ suffragette witches with @alixeharrow.bsky.social!
🧹 Fast and Furious with broomsticks via @mythjae.bsky.social!
also, as someone who has spent the past decade saying before you get into a relationship with anyone, you should be allowed to read their actual reddit (not burner they use in front of you), I have been proven even more correct
October 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
also, as someone who has spent the past decade saying before you get into a relationship with anyone, you should be allowed to read their actual reddit (not burner they use in front of you), I have been proven even more correct
wild to be in dublin right now, where the rightwing politican running for president would probably be a popular democrat back home and hearing people say you would have to be out of your fucking mind to vote for martha & then to see the news back home is like a man can have a nazi phase as a treat
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
wild to be in dublin right now, where the rightwing politican running for president would probably be a popular democrat back home and hearing people say you would have to be out of your fucking mind to vote for martha & then to see the news back home is like a man can have a nazi phase as a treat
back in a lidl, immediately opening my phone and searching how get eu citizenship
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
back in a lidl, immediately opening my phone and searching how get eu citizenship
it was the bro what of times, it was the 4chan-firebrain of times
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
it was the bro what of times, it was the 4chan-firebrain of times
If you or someone you know is thinking about applying to MFA programs this year, at Minnesota we are fully funded for 3 years including covering your student fees, 1-1 teaching (mostly creative writing) with chances to teach in the summer, you can join the union, and live in a major city.
Interested in an MFA in Creative Writing? Join us Oct 15 or 20 to hear from faculty and students re: our fully funded, three-year program. Since 2019, our students and alums have published more than 70 books! Register:
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October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you or someone you know is thinking about applying to MFA programs this year, at Minnesota we are fully funded for 3 years including covering your student fees, 1-1 teaching (mostly creative writing) with chances to teach in the summer, you can join the union, and live in a major city.
this is why i've stopped reading 99% of the messages that have come through my website
October 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
this is why i've stopped reading 99% of the messages that have come through my website
Hey Nashville, I'll be reading and talking tomorrow morning at 10 AM in the State Museum! Hopefully see some of you there
October 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hey Nashville, I'll be reading and talking tomorrow morning at 10 AM in the State Museum! Hopefully see some of you there
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Reminder that RAVISHING is available for preorder and if you DO preorder you can get a special sticker sheet designed by @shebani. You can also add the book on GR, tell your local library/indie, and share this post! TIA for supporting this brown, chronically ill writer.
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RAVISHING, out from Roxane Gay/Grove Atlantic 11.11.2025! Preorder below! ⬇️
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October 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reminder that RAVISHING is available for preorder and if you DO preorder you can get a special sticker sheet designed by @shebani. You can also add the book on GR, tell your local library/indie, and share this post! TIA for supporting this brown, chronically ill writer.
linktr.ee/eshanisurya
linktr.ee/eshanisurya
One of my favorite things about writing is that I've gotten to read Eshani's works for years first as a short story writer and now as a novelist. Pre-order this one!
I absolutely loved @megiddings.bsky.social’s book LAKEWOOD and it hugely helped me figure out the way forward for writing BIPOC characters who are experiencing trauma due to strange products changing the body. This blurb means THE 🌎.
If you haven’t gone out and read Megan Giddings yet, go now!
If you haven’t gone out and read Megan Giddings yet, go now!
October 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
One of my favorite things about writing is that I've gotten to read Eshani's works for years first as a short story writer and now as a novelist. Pre-order this one!
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Billionaires are always inserting themselves into situations when it is unneeded or unwanted but when their influence could be useful, they aren’t around. Anyway. Mark Cuban is an IU alum. He could fund that student newspaper in perpetuity with pocket change. Or withhold institutional donations.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Billionaires are always inserting themselves into situations when it is unneeded or unwanted but when their influence could be useful, they aren’t around. Anyway. Mark Cuban is an IU alum. He could fund that student newspaper in perpetuity with pocket change. Or withhold institutional donations.
the relatable impulse to be your most annoying self online and call it creative marketing for your next novel
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
the relatable impulse to be your most annoying self online and call it creative marketing for your next novel
Support the student journalists at IDS and share their direct reporting on the situation: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Support the student journalists at IDS and share their direct reporting on the situation: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
at a point of such profound disillusionment that I am making plans to have two glasses of pinot and fall asleep twenty minutes into shrek 2 as a fun treat
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
at a point of such profound disillusionment that I am making plans to have two glasses of pinot and fall asleep twenty minutes into shrek 2 as a fun treat
I know I'm still alive because I cried my way through the last thirty-five pages of Heart the Lover like I was a child having to endure the ending of When the Red Fern Grows again
October 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I know I'm still alive because I cried my way through the last thirty-five pages of Heart the Lover like I was a child having to endure the ending of When the Red Fern Grows again
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my story “Icediver” is in this anthology! you could say it’s a mermaid story, but really it’s about being an outcast, finding your people, and repairing subsea fiber-optic cables. check it out!
A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is out today! Edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, with artwork by @abistevensart.bsky.social, this special issue celebrates neurodiverse creators with reprinted work from Reckoning's first 10 years. Check out the full ToC and read CG's editorial here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
my story “Icediver” is in this anthology! you could say it’s a mermaid story, but really it’s about being an outcast, finding your people, and repairing subsea fiber-optic cables. check it out!
my english teacher once told me the most beautiful phrase in the English language is dubai chocolate labubu
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
my english teacher once told me the most beautiful phrase in the English language is dubai chocolate labubu
someone might have one of the most demented stories she's ever written reprinted in this:
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Kevin Wilson's 12 Days of Stories [PRE-ORDER] — Hingston & Olsen Publishing
Hear ye! Contained within are a dozen outstanding short stories, as selected by author and short-fiction savant Kevin Wilson. Whether you savour them one day at a time as a countdown to Christmas...
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October 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
someone might have one of the most demented stories she's ever written reprinted in this:
www.hingstonandolsen.com/store/the-20...
www.hingstonandolsen.com/store/the-20...
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Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...
2025's biggest jump scare is when someone begins a sentence with, "I've been doing my own research."
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
2025's biggest jump scare is when someone begins a sentence with, "I've been doing my own research."