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Meredith Wadley – editing a novel – ignoring DMs!
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Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
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Meredith Wadley – editing a novel – ignoring DMs! @meredithwadley.bsky.social · Nov 4
Publication day! Two of my prize-winning stories are included in #OurBestWarStories. Brilliant works by lives impacted by war—on the battlefront & at home. Thanks to #LineofAdvance and #MiddleWestPress. Thanks to the editing team & congrats to all included!

www.middlewestpress.com/2025/09/new-...
New Volume Collects 60+ Col. Darron L. Wright Award-winning Stories & Poems
Editors of Chicago-based non-profit literary journal Line of Advance  ( www.LineOfAdvance.org ) have announced a new, second volume collecti...
www.middlewestpress.com
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I live in MN in a Minneapolis suburb. It's so frightening, but we need to get more people across the country out. It takes 3.5% of the population before changes begin to be made. We're at about 2% right now.
February 2, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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I cannot stay silent about #Minneapolis. My February musing is as grim as I look. #ICE #entitlement #pastor_martin_niemoeller #FirstTheyCame

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
Now They Come for Me
When I'm part of the problem.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Whoo-hoo! An old friend's memoir is filmed. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... @lidiamiles.bsky.social

#TheChronologyofWater #LidiaYuknavitch #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
“The Chronology of Water” Is an Extraordinary Directorial Début
Kristen Stewart’s first feature, based on a memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, packs great emotional power into its boldly original form.
www.newyorker.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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New musing up on substack. Enjoy!
open.substack.com/pub/meredith...

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
A Winter, Alpine Climb
Taking a break from cross-country skiing, Markus and I took a rewarding New Year's Day hike.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Focusing on a #campussuspensenovel – NOT submitting #shortstories to #litmags. Yet this a.m., I opened #bluesky to announce an acceptance! NO! WAIT: just last night's #DREAM!

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #flashfiction #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
a man with curly hair and glasses is saying just dreams sleep it off
Alt: A Caucasian man with curly reddish hair and wearing wire-rimmed glasses shakes his head and his lips move. Text below reads: Just dreams. Sleep it off. Superimposed on the image, next to the text, is a small seated figure in yellow trousers, blue shirt, and sombrero, who's napping.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 9
"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
Last year slipped by—along with my attempt to finish a #novel. This year, I'm nearly done with my #2nddraft. A #WIP, but I'm hella farther along & loving the process & progress.

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #SwissAlps #Weisshorn #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #writersky #authorsky
Sunset in an alpine valley. The grassy valley floor, it's decommissioned airstrip, and the lower, forested slopes of the mountains are in evening shadows. The dark slopes form a V that frames the silhouette of the distant Weisshorn bathed in gold light and capped by horizontal layers of clouds touched golden and silver and blue.
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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After an October #blog break & being on the road, I'm back with a post about traveling + a bonus message . . . Enjoy! #Musing #retirement #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #WIP #campussuspense #writersky #authorsky

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Finding Community in Place
After taking a blog break in October, a month I also spent on the road, I'm back with a November post—about traveling! With a bonus message . . . Enjoy my musing about retirement and traveling from Sw...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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#PubDay #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #militarybrat #usafbrat #VietnamEra #VietnamWar #LineofAdvance #MiddleWestPress #ColonelDarronLWrightMemorialWritingAwards #vestwrite #writersky #authorsky
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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But would you have to stop a brief moment to think?
mjmimages.bsky.social Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · Nov 4
Good morning. Was in the middle of a crosswalk when my dad called to ask me how to spell, “gestalt.”
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
Publication day! Two of my prize-winning stories are included in #OurBestWarStories. Brilliant works by lives impacted by war—on the battlefront & at home. Thanks to #LineofAdvance and #MiddleWestPress. Thanks to the editing team & congrats to all included!

www.middlewestpress.com/2025/09/new-...
New Volume Collects 60+ Col. Darron L. Wright Award-winning Stories & Poems
Editors of Chicago-based non-profit literary journal Line of Advance  ( www.LineOfAdvance.org ) have announced a new, second volume collecti...
www.middlewestpress.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
Hands down, the most charming book I’ve read this year! I highly recommend!!

#TheLightsofShantinagar by #NidhiArora

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #womeninSTEM, #STEM, #bookclubfiction #india #indianwriters #contemporaryfiction #womenwriters, #literaryfiction #writersky #authorsky
A paperback novel on a laptop. The Lights of Shantinagar by Nidhi Arora has a colorful illustrated cover of bight windows against a star-filled night sky. Figures occupy most of the windows but one, which has a study lamp, beaming light across the cover and centrally placed title.
September 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
Traveling is hard on #5amwritersclub members. 1) How to share hotel rooms with a partner who sleeps in?? 2) Where to find decent coffee at 5am? & 3) Breakfast start as late as 6:30? Or 8:00???!!! That’s crazy!

Still, I’m getting work/editing done + enjoying #Brussels #LeTouquet #Honfleur & #Auxerre
September 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
Enjoy this brilliant read! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻(And greetings from #AuxerreFrance!)

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
September 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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thewoolfofficial.bsky.social
#Submissions open next Monday, 15 September - also when the theme of Issue 9 will be announced.

Hint? You might already be in it. #shortfiction #creativewriting #visualart #sometimeswehowl
September 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
Heading up north to #EuropeanWritersSalon in #Brussels! Excited to meet new & #SM friends & to talk nerdy #writer stuff!

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
September 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
Dear #PrinceAndrew, surely it's time to confess your crimes to the world, your sins to your god, king, and daughters, and NAME NAMES. #epstein #trump #sextraffickers #POTUS #USCongress #believethewomen
September 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
Latest #macbookpro #wordupdate & I'm getting #pinwheels. Excessive numbers! Annoying! 🤬🤬🤬

You, too?

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #womenwriters, #editing #debutnovel #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP, #appleproducts, #writersky #authorsky
September 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Hell yes. Go after all of them. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Apple Sued by Authors for Copyright Infringement
On Friday, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of illegally using their books to train its AI.
www.publishersweekly.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
My September #musing is live!

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP, #BonnieGarmus, #LidiaYuknavitch, #emailscams, #campussuspensenovel, #AI, #ChatGPT, #writersky #authorsky
Text superimposed over the cover of a manuscript of adult literary fiction: “My September #musing is shaped by the Wonderland of #AI, but not the writing of it.
September 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Wishing everyone a bright, colorful day! #5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

I’m happily #editing my #campusnovel, #suspensenovel, my #poet #protag undermining the patriarchy!
Sunrise colors the bellies of clouds, purple, pink, orange, and yellow. The landscape is of a lawn and a large fir tree to the photographer’s left, and to her right, a contemporary Swiss house with a red tile roof. A paved driveway leads the eye straight to a distant village, silhouetted against the sunset and the colorful horizon.
September 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
Editing my #novelinprogress & not here much but thinking of you & hoping your #writingprojects are progressing well.

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #WIP #writersky #authorsky

Here's to self-doubt:
A bright yellow garden gnome flips the finger. He smirks, too.
August 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
meredithwadley.bsky.social
This morning , #editing on my 2nd draft & a bike ride in the afternoon.

#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
#obergoms #switzerland
From a mowed, grassy ledge, the view of water cascading through rocks and brush where two mountain slopes come together. Looking southwest and from 500 meters up from the valley floor, Obergoms, lushly green, and forested mountain slopes. The sky is partly overcast. In the foreground, a trail cuts through turf, and a sign is posted with directions. Looking up toward the Furka Pass from a rough, two-track road flanking a mountain slope. Just visible is a mountain bike handlebar. Just up the path is a pole with trail mustard yellow signs.
August 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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August 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM