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”
On Thanksgiving Eve, I found out my poetry manuscript THE ANIMAL INSIDE MY BODY was longlisted in the @yesyesbooks.bsky.social 2025 poetry open reading — much to be thankful for! YesYes is a dream press. Cross your fingers for me.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
On Thanksgiving Eve, I found out my poetry manuscript THE ANIMAL INSIDE MY BODY was longlisted in the @yesyesbooks.bsky.social 2025 poetry open reading — much to be thankful for! YesYes is a dream press. Cross your fingers for me.
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).
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).
Thrilled to announce our fifth cohort of writers, the 2025-2026 Carolyn Moore Writers House Residents. 🧵
@cmwritershouse.bsky.social
Margaret Juhae Lee, Julia Gaskill, Dominica Phetteplace, Zelmira Stevens Vindas, Mahogany Browne, Adam Falkner, Gabriela Denise Frank…
@cmwritershouse.bsky.social
Margaret Juhae Lee, Julia Gaskill, Dominica Phetteplace, Zelmira Stevens Vindas, Mahogany Browne, Adam Falkner, Gabriela Denise Frank…
September 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thrilled to announce our fifth cohort of writers, the 2025-2026 Carolyn Moore Writers House Residents. 🧵
@cmwritershouse.bsky.social
Margaret Juhae Lee, Julia Gaskill, Dominica Phetteplace, Zelmira Stevens Vindas, Mahogany Browne, Adam Falkner, Gabriela Denise Frank…
@cmwritershouse.bsky.social
Margaret Juhae Lee, Julia Gaskill, Dominica Phetteplace, Zelmira Stevens Vindas, Mahogany Browne, Adam Falkner, Gabriela Denise Frank…
My poem “September 11 and September 11,” published in The Pointed Circle. Feeling this today.
September 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
My poem “September 11 and September 11,” published in The Pointed Circle. Feeling this today.
I bought Fig this sparkly rainbow tank as a souvenir when I was in Provincetown last week. She now refuses to take it off (which she has never done with an item of clothing). Maybe this is something you needed to see today? For no reason whatsoever?
September 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I bought Fig this sparkly rainbow tank as a souvenir when I was in Provincetown last week. She now refuses to take it off (which she has never done with an item of clothing). Maybe this is something you needed to see today? For no reason whatsoever?
Until I get into the @cmwritershouse.bsky.social account, I’ll use my own to thank Justin Rigamonti, who is stepping down as Coordinator. Under his invaluable five-year stewardship, the CMWH Residency and programming launched, and dozens of writers were welcomed into Carolyn’s gift of respite.
September 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Until I get into the @cmwritershouse.bsky.social account, I’ll use my own to thank Justin Rigamonti, who is stepping down as Coordinator. Under his invaluable five-year stewardship, the CMWH Residency and programming launched, and dozens of writers were welcomed into Carolyn’s gift of respite.
I loved so many of the poems from Sid Ghosh’s new @milkweededitions.bsky.social book yellow flower gills me whole, but I want to share this one. Part of the Multiverse Series highlighting the practices and creativity of neurodivergent, autistic, neuroqueer, mad, nonspeaking, and disabled cultures.”
August 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I loved so many of the poems from Sid Ghosh’s new @milkweededitions.bsky.social book yellow flower gills me whole, but I want to share this one. Part of the Multiverse Series highlighting the practices and creativity of neurodivergent, autistic, neuroqueer, mad, nonspeaking, and disabled cultures.”
Hey PDX book and poetry people, this event on Sunday at @powells.bsky.social is going to be something else. Please come witness a conversation between poets Chris Martin and Sid Gosh, a nonspeaking autistic writer with Down syndrome whose poems display “a dexterity replete with vertiginous grace.”
August 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Hey PDX book and poetry people, this event on Sunday at @powells.bsky.social is going to be something else. Please come witness a conversation between poets Chris Martin and Sid Gosh, a nonspeaking autistic writer with Down syndrome whose poems display “a dexterity replete with vertiginous grace.”
So not only is Grammarly encouraging my students to use my writing to train AI, but they will be using my RateMyProfessor reviews to give students draft feedback? Great. Sounds great.
(Almost makes me miss the days of the chili pepper.)
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
(Almost makes me miss the days of the chili pepper.)
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
August 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So not only is Grammarly encouraging my students to use my writing to train AI, but they will be using my RateMyProfessor reviews to give students draft feedback? Great. Sounds great.
(Almost makes me miss the days of the chili pepper.)
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
(Almost makes me miss the days of the chili pepper.)
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
Not feeling great about this targeted ad from The Oregonian.
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Not feeling great about this targeted ad from The Oregonian.
Rereading Heather Christle’s THE TREES THE TREES as part of the Sealey Challenge and this poem always hits me where I live. #sealeychallenge
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Rereading Heather Christle’s THE TREES THE TREES as part of the Sealey Challenge and this poem always hits me where I live. #sealeychallenge
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
I came home to find this box on my porch and ALERT: it is officially the season when gardeners foist off their giant zucchini over abundance on unsuspecting neighbors.
August 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I came home to find this box on my porch and ALERT: it is officially the season when gardeners foist off their giant zucchini over abundance on unsuspecting neighbors.
I went to the dying/rebirthing Lloyd Center mall for my mother’s birthday where, at Floating World comics, we bought a beautifully graphic version of ON TYRANNY (illustrated by Nora Krug) and I’m going to recommend it in the spirit of “do you buy books you see on Bluesky”? 📚💙
August 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I went to the dying/rebirthing Lloyd Center mall for my mother’s birthday where, at Floating World comics, we bought a beautifully graphic version of ON TYRANNY (illustrated by Nora Krug) and I’m going to recommend it in the spirit of “do you buy books you see on Bluesky”? 📚💙
Yesterday as we lost Andrea Gibson and the Department of Education, and I lay feverish in bed. Today I got up and took my morning walk to the little free (treat) library my dog Fig loves. Thought you might also want to see some things to stay here for.
#morningwalk #viewfrommywalk #reasontobe
#morningwalk #viewfrommywalk #reasontobe
July 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yesterday as we lost Andrea Gibson and the Department of Education, and I lay feverish in bed. Today I got up and took my morning walk to the little free (treat) library my dog Fig loves. Thought you might also want to see some things to stay here for.
#morningwalk #viewfrommywalk #reasontobe
#morningwalk #viewfrommywalk #reasontobe
Fig is making sure I’m working but not too hard at the Sou’Wester artist retreat. So much novel mapping.
June 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Fig is making sure I’m working but not too hard at the Sou’Wester artist retreat. So much novel mapping.
But this one is kind of cute, no?
May 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
But this one is kind of cute, no?
Rebecca Solnit (with Lidia Yuknavitch) reminding us about the critical role of slowness and uncertainty in making monumental changes to human systems. And reminding us that humans are part of vast nonhuman systems.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @lidiamiles.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @lidiamiles.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Rebecca Solnit (with Lidia Yuknavitch) reminding us about the critical role of slowness and uncertainty in making monumental changes to human systems. And reminding us that humans are part of vast nonhuman systems.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @lidiamiles.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @lidiamiles.bsky.social
The bush in question.
May 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The bush in question.
The world’s ugliest rose bush lives in my yard. Apparently the previous owners tried to get rid of it, but the plant was tenacious and became one giant thorny stalk that each year grows a single rose. This year, that rose sure was something.
May 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The world’s ugliest rose bush lives in my yard. Apparently the previous owners tried to get rid of it, but the plant was tenacious and became one giant thorny stalk that each year grows a single rose. This year, that rose sure was something.
The Carolyn Moore Writing Residency at Portland Community College is open for applications for our 2025-2026 year. We will be open through May 15. Application link in replies.
@cmwritershouse.bsky.social
@cmwritershouse.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Carolyn Moore Writing Residency at Portland Community College is open for applications for our 2025-2026 year. We will be open through May 15. Application link in replies.
@cmwritershouse.bsky.social
@cmwritershouse.bsky.social
I like these flowers. These flowers are pretty and stippled.
April 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I like these flowers. These flowers are pretty and stippled.