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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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...
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!
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.
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.
Morning writing situation:
July 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Morning writing situation:
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?
From earlier this month, on a mini writing retreat in Bennington VT! Sound on to hear me play! (Second residency where I brought my pipes!)
June 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
From earlier this month, on a mini writing retreat in Bennington VT! Sound on to hear me play! (Second residency where I brought my pipes!)
Just spent a magical five days in Bennington, VT, at Prospect Street Writers House, with five other writers, including my wonderful friend (and amazing writer) Matthew Lansburgh, who invited me to join him! I worked on outlining and getting a handle on all three (yes) of my novel projects.
June 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Just spent a magical five days in Bennington, VT, at Prospect Street Writers House, with five other writers, including my wonderful friend (and amazing writer) Matthew Lansburgh, who invited me to join him! I worked on outlining and getting a handle on all three (yes) of my novel projects.
This feels important to my work as a writer, so I'm taking a short (one day, two?) pause from other writing projects to sketch this out:
April 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This feels important to my work as a writer, so I'm taking a short (one day, two?) pause from other writing projects to sketch this out:
Some REALLY exciting (Zoom) workshops on the horizon at @pvww.bsky.social: Tomorrow (5/25), Landing Your Ending with novelist @bhurley.bsky.social! And Saturday 5/3, Whiting Award-winner Elwin Cotman teaches the Japanese Four-Act Structure (Kishotenketsu)! Info & links to signup in the comments!
April 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Some REALLY exciting (Zoom) workshops on the horizon at @pvww.bsky.social: Tomorrow (5/25), Landing Your Ending with novelist @bhurley.bsky.social! And Saturday 5/3, Whiting Award-winner Elwin Cotman teaches the Japanese Four-Act Structure (Kishotenketsu)! Info & links to signup in the comments!
Some thoughts on revision, for writers who struggle with or dread this part of the process - the key is to make it simple, routine, and somewhat technical!
April 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Some thoughts on revision, for writers who struggle with or dread this part of the process - the key is to make it simple, routine, and somewhat technical!
Top two tips on how to improve a piece, from draft to draft:
April 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Top two tips on how to improve a piece, from draft to draft:
New novel-writing tool unlocked: Coggle! For brainstorming and story mapping. First three maps are free, and very intuitive, easy to use. Sharing an image here from their gallery, but I'll share my own novel's map when it's more complete. It is REALLY helpful for seeing my outline visually.
April 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
New novel-writing tool unlocked: Coggle! For brainstorming and story mapping. First three maps are free, and very intuitive, easy to use. Sharing an image here from their gallery, but I'll share my own novel's map when it's more complete. It is REALLY helpful for seeing my outline visually.
While I’m not at #awp25, my latest short story is! You can go on a scavenger hunt for it (“Frog Heart”) in the summer 2024 issue of @pshares.bsky.social (table 44 in the book fair), edited by the brilliant @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social!
March 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
While I’m not at #awp25, my latest short story is! You can go on a scavenger hunt for it (“Frog Heart”) in the summer 2024 issue of @pshares.bsky.social (table 44 in the book fair), edited by the brilliant @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social!
Had a marvelous time reading and discussing writing with visionary writer Allegra Hyde a few days ago, at @forbeslibrary.bsky.social in Northampton MA, as part of the Readers & Writers Live series. Read from a new short story forthcoming in One Story! Allegra’s reading was 🔥
March 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Had a marvelous time reading and discussing writing with visionary writer Allegra Hyde a few days ago, at @forbeslibrary.bsky.social in Northampton MA, as part of the Readers & Writers Live series. Read from a new short story forthcoming in One Story! Allegra’s reading was 🔥
Had a new idea for a reading series! Writers, who's interested? And where would your reading be?
March 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Had a new idea for a reading series! Writers, who's interested? And where would your reading be?
Feeling this, and don't have the energy to shorten it...
March 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Feeling this, and don't have the energy to shorten it...
Shared this 100-word contest with my (frequently playful, joking) partner who sometimes writes and he had a priceless response:
March 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Shared this 100-word contest with my (frequently playful, joking) partner who sometimes writes and he had a priceless response:
Thrilled to have an article in the March/April issue of @pw.org, on creating your own DIY writing retreat with writer-friends, featuring practical, hilarious, and helpful tips from some of my brilliant writer-friends (GennaRose Nethercott, Vu Tran, @bhurley.bsky.social, & Maegan Masterman!)
February 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Thrilled to have an article in the March/April issue of @pw.org, on creating your own DIY writing retreat with writer-friends, featuring practical, hilarious, and helpful tips from some of my brilliant writer-friends (GennaRose Nethercott, Vu Tran, @bhurley.bsky.social, & Maegan Masterman!)