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Meagan Arthur
@m-e-arthur.bsky.social
writer & phd student 🌻
prose editor @ Quarterly West
new work Alaska Quarterly Review, The Journal, Puerto del Sol, Identity Theory, Cream City Review, etc.
meaganarthur.com
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So happy to receive my copy of the new issue of Alaska Quarterly Review—a dream pub, with my dreamy story right at the front. ‼️‼️❤️❤️
Honored to have a story (with line drawings!) in the new Plum Issue of @riverstyxmag.bsky.social ❤️🥕🪴🍠 www.riverstyx.org/shop/p/river...
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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My debut poetry collection is available to pre-order from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social ! Please order and share 💙

www.finishinglinepress.com/product/all-...
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Very happy to have my story in the @bridportprize.bsky.social winners’ anthology! Thank you @bridportarts.bsky.social 🧡
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The newest (and my last!) issue of Quarterly West is out. Heading up prose has been a dream and I am leaving things in @xueyizhou.bsky.social ‘s very capable hands. Read our latest now! www.quarterlywest.com/issue-115
Issue 115 — Quarterly West
www.quarterlywest.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
A story of mine is in the new issue of Waxwing—amazing curation of work here! Read: waxwingmag.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I have a poem in the new @michiganquarterly.bsky.social MIXTAPE 🔥🌀 yay! read here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/mixtape/
October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
new work of mine on the way in @riverstyxmag.bsky.social !!! another dream pub for me, I can’t wait 🍑✨
River Styx 110: Plum is available for preorder. Featuring new writing and art by Maryn Blanco, Noor Jafari, Marc McKee, Hantian Zhang, Allison Field Bell, and more.
August 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Our spring issue of Quarterly West is live! Featuring our quirky, thought-provoking prose contest winners and the incredible pieces chosen as finalists! www.quarterlywest.com Endless thanks to @jamiljankochai.bsky.social for judging this year!
Quarterly West
www.quarterlywest.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
my piece “FLAT” in American Literary Review!! read here: americanliteraryreview.com/2025/03/03/m...
April 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I have a little prosey poem in this issue 💚💚 thank you ALR
Working as Managing Editor for American Literary Review has been one of the most exciting things for me. I'm so thrilled to share our Spring Issue and all the fantastic work inside!

You can read ALR's Spring 2025 issue here:
americanliteraryreview.com/2025/04/15/s...
Spring 2025
Spring 2025 2025 ALR AWARDS Lauren Barbato, The Great Renunciation (fiction,
americanliteraryreview.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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And here’s some truly harrowing data from Deloitte.

Readership of male bestsellers: 55% men, 45% women.

Readership of female bestsellers: 19% men, 81% women.

(It gets worse when you figure in race and queerness!)

www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insigh...
March 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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It’s my 38th birthday tomorrow and to celebrate, I’m offering signed copies of my nonfiction chapbook! 15$ each, shipping included!

DM me here or email me at fieldbellwriter@gmail.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
So happy to receive my copy of the new issue of Alaska Quarterly Review—a dream pub, with my dreamy story right at the front. ‼️‼️❤️❤️
March 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.

At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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"...Mulder wants to believe in extraterrestrial
life and Scully wants to believe in Mulder’s conviction.
And you, you want to believe in the conviction
of stories..."

🛸 👽 today from Audrey Bauman!

https://www.havehashad.com/qwi64
The Scully Effect by Audrey Bauman
is a friend donning a lab coat because of a character in a show. Is another friend pressing play on the pilot, hushing you while Gillian Anderson autopsies an alien’s corpse. Is watching bad TV for…
www.havehashad.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
www.theatlantic.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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To people in my life constantly telling me that my position on reproductive rights is extreme and that my fears are “radical”, this week news broke of a HUMAN EGG FARM
Three Thai women escaped a horrific human trafficking ring referred to as a “human egg farm” in Georgia. They reveal that in this operation, women are held captive, injected with hormones, and their eggs are forcibly extracted for black market IVF sales.
www.freedomunited.org/news/escapin...
Three women escape a shocking human trafficking ring - FreedomUnited.org
Three Thai women have escaped a horrific human trafficking ring being referred to as a “human egg farm” in Georgia.
www.freedomunited.org
February 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
my friend @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social is KILLING IT, preorder one or BOTH of her amazing chapbooks now!
More good news! My Creative Nonfiction Chapbook, EDGE OF THE SEA, is available to order through CutBank Books!

www.cutbankonline.org/2025-chapbooks
February 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Alice Oswald ✨ (because all I’m doing lately is reading for exams, enjoy the highlights with me!)
February 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Eeeek! You can now pre-order my chapbook from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social

Please support me and this wonderful press!

www.finishinglinepress.com/product/with...
February 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM