Brown Bag Lit
@brownbaglit.bsky.social
An online writing community with classes, events and more with @shastagrant.bsky.social and @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social
https://www.brownbaglit.com
https://www.brownbaglit.com
#RandomWritingPrompt:
The eating season has arrived! Write the flavors and memories of a particular dish that transports you. Close your eyes to consider the food with your five senses and then look around the room of your memory. Who do you see? What happens?
The eating season has arrived! Write the flavors and memories of a particular dish that transports you. Close your eyes to consider the food with your five senses and then look around the room of your memory. Who do you see? What happens?
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#RandomWritingPrompt:
The eating season has arrived! Write the flavors and memories of a particular dish that transports you. Close your eyes to consider the food with your five senses and then look around the room of your memory. Who do you see? What happens?
The eating season has arrived! Write the flavors and memories of a particular dish that transports you. Close your eyes to consider the food with your five senses and then look around the room of your memory. Who do you see? What happens?
#RandomWritingPrompt:
Sometimes clarity emerges from the light. What do you see here? Do you need to blur your eyes or is it already blurry enough?
Sometimes clarity emerges from the light. What do you see here? Do you need to blur your eyes or is it already blurry enough?
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
#RandomWritingPrompt:
Sometimes clarity emerges from the light. What do you see here? Do you need to blur your eyes or is it already blurry enough?
Sometimes clarity emerges from the light. What do you see here? Do you need to blur your eyes or is it already blurry enough?
Thank you to E. Ethelbert Miller for his conversation with Charlotte Taylor Fryar (author of Potomac Fever) today over at Brown Bag Lit in partnership with @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social!
If you missed it, you can find a recording here: www.youtube.com/@brownbaglit...
If you missed it, you can find a recording here: www.youtube.com/@brownbaglit...
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Thank you to E. Ethelbert Miller for his conversation with Charlotte Taylor Fryar (author of Potomac Fever) today over at Brown Bag Lit in partnership with @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social!
If you missed it, you can find a recording here: www.youtube.com/@brownbaglit...
If you missed it, you can find a recording here: www.youtube.com/@brownbaglit...
See you on Monday for our Brown Bag Lit event:
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
See you on Monday for our Brown Bag Lit event:
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events
#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.
Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.
Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.
Next up at Brown Bag Lit:
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Next up at Brown Bag Lit:
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events
We sent out our November Brown Bag Lit news! If you're not on our mailing list, DM me and I'll add you!
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November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We sent out our November Brown Bag Lit news! If you're not on our mailing list, DM me and I'll add you!
mailchi.mp/dbeaa6270997...
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Our November Brown Bag Lit event features Charlotte Taylor Fryar, author of Potomac Fever, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, about writing her essay collection and researching the environmental, racial and other histories of the Potomac River.
October 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our November Brown Bag Lit event features Charlotte Taylor Fryar, author of Potomac Fever, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, about writing her essay collection and researching the environmental, racial and other histories of the Potomac River.
'Tis the Halloween season! For today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit, write a list of ten real or new (made-up) Halloween names. For example, I'm loving the "Warty Goblin" pumpkins! Then, see if you can work them into a short story, essay or poem.
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
'Tis the Halloween season! For today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit, write a list of ten real or new (made-up) Halloween names. For example, I'm loving the "Warty Goblin" pumpkins! Then, see if you can work them into a short story, essay or poem.
Thank you to Naomi Thiers for her review of Jessica Simon’s poetry collection, Built of All I Shape and Name (Kelsay Books) in Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal!
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thank you to Naomi Thiers for her review of Jessica Simon’s poetry collection, Built of All I Shape and Name (Kelsay Books) in Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal!
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...
Today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art.
While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.
Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art.
While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.
October 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art.
While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.
Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art.
While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.
#RandomWritingPrompt: There are many different kinds of languages, including constructed languages (like Esperanto.)
Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.
Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#RandomWritingPrompt: There are many different kinds of languages, including constructed languages (like Esperanto.)
Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.
Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.
Thank you to @bookbent.bsky.social for visiting today to discuss her debut novel, The Belles, and all about her publishing path with @shastagrant.bsky.social!
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Thank you to @bookbent.bsky.social for visiting today to discuss her debut novel, The Belles, and all about her publishing path with @shastagrant.bsky.social!
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...
What are you reading for Banned Books Week?
more here: bannedbooksweek.org
Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss:
Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America
You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...
more here: bannedbooksweek.org
Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss:
Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America
You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...
October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What are you reading for Banned Books Week?
more here: bannedbooksweek.org
Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss:
Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America
You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...
more here: bannedbooksweek.org
Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss:
Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America
You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...
Join Brown Bag Lit next week for our Oct. event!
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
October 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Join Brown Bag Lit next week for our Oct. event!
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.
#RandomWritingPrompt:
'Tis the Horror Season!
Write a horror story or poem with a start, middle and end (which is to say, there are lots of real life horrors right now. Work to harness one that is contained and resolvable.)
'Tis the Horror Season!
Write a horror story or poem with a start, middle and end (which is to say, there are lots of real life horrors right now. Work to harness one that is contained and resolvable.)
October 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#RandomWritingPrompt:
'Tis the Horror Season!
Write a horror story or poem with a start, middle and end (which is to say, there are lots of real life horrors right now. Work to harness one that is contained and resolvable.)
'Tis the Horror Season!
Write a horror story or poem with a start, middle and end (which is to say, there are lots of real life horrors right now. Work to harness one that is contained and resolvable.)
Brown Bag Lit just sent out our Oct. newsletter in which we share member news and announce our next event with @bookbent.bsky.social!
email:
mailchi.mp/ba9132731d36...
register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
DM us if you aren't on our mailing list and would like to be.
email:
mailchi.mp/ba9132731d36...
register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
DM us if you aren't on our mailing list and would like to be.
October 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Brown Bag Lit just sent out our Oct. newsletter in which we share member news and announce our next event with @bookbent.bsky.social!
email:
mailchi.mp/ba9132731d36...
register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
DM us if you aren't on our mailing list and would like to be.
email:
mailchi.mp/ba9132731d36...
register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
DM us if you aren't on our mailing list and would like to be.
Let's think about your writing practice for today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
I like to talk about a "writer's toolbox" - the skills and knowledge you have accumulated.
What's in your writer's toolbox?
I like to talk about a "writer's toolbox" - the skills and knowledge you have accumulated.
What's in your writer's toolbox?
September 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Let's think about your writing practice for today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
I like to talk about a "writer's toolbox" - the skills and knowledge you have accumulated.
What's in your writer's toolbox?
I like to talk about a "writer's toolbox" - the skills and knowledge you have accumulated.
What's in your writer's toolbox?
Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break Writers event happening now; thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for visiting!
Lunch Break: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
Miriam: miriamgershow.com
Lunch Break: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
Miriam: miriamgershow.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break Writers event happening now; thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for visiting!
Lunch Break: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
Miriam: miriamgershow.com
Lunch Break: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
Miriam: miriamgershow.com
Today our Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break writing accountability group will participate in a small group talk about writing from various points of view with @miriamgershow.bsky.social
(Closer.)
Become a Lunch Break Writer to attend and receive more member benefits:
www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
(Closer.)
Become a Lunch Break Writer to attend and receive more member benefits:
www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
September 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today our Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break writing accountability group will participate in a small group talk about writing from various points of view with @miriamgershow.bsky.social
(Closer.)
Become a Lunch Break Writer to attend and receive more member benefits:
www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
(Closer.)
Become a Lunch Break Writer to attend and receive more member benefits:
www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
New from Brown Bag Lit's Milk Journal: Multi-genre author @demisty.bsky.social chats with co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social about writing her short story collection All Daughters are Awesome Everywhere from
@univnebpress.bsky.social (and other books!)
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal
@univnebpress.bsky.social (and other books!)
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal
September 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New from Brown Bag Lit's Milk Journal: Multi-genre author @demisty.bsky.social chats with co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social about writing her short story collection All Daughters are Awesome Everywhere from
@univnebpress.bsky.social (and other books!)
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal
@univnebpress.bsky.social (and other books!)
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal
Thank you to @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social for joining us today to discuss collaboration and their new poetry book, Q&A For The End of The World! If you missed it, and we hope you didn't!, you can catch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWOH...
September 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Thank you to @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social for joining us today to discuss collaboration and their new poetry book, Q&A For The End of The World! If you missed it, and we hope you didn't!, you can catch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWOH...
Today at noon, EST!
Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Q&A for the End of the World
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
@mgushuedc.bsky.social
and
@kimroberts-dc.bsky.social
will share behind-the-scenes insights from co-writing their new poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World.
Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Q&A for the End of the World
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
@mgushuedc.bsky.social
and
@kimroberts-dc.bsky.social
will share behind-the-scenes insights from co-writing their new poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World.
September 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Today at noon, EST!
Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Q&A for the End of the World
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
@mgushuedc.bsky.social
and
@kimroberts-dc.bsky.social
will share behind-the-scenes insights from co-writing their new poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World.
Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Q&A for the End of the World
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
@mgushuedc.bsky.social
and
@kimroberts-dc.bsky.social
will share behind-the-scenes insights from co-writing their new poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World.
#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit.
The days are getting shorter. The constant news is dark.
What brings you (or your character) light? Joy? It can be the smallest bite to the deepest laugh.
The days are getting shorter. The constant news is dark.
What brings you (or your character) light? Joy? It can be the smallest bite to the deepest laugh.
September 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit.
The days are getting shorter. The constant news is dark.
What brings you (or your character) light? Joy? It can be the smallest bite to the deepest laugh.
The days are getting shorter. The constant news is dark.
What brings you (or your character) light? Joy? It can be the smallest bite to the deepest laugh.
Brown Bag Lit #RandomWritingPrompt:
Read through your draft and find the heart of the piece. What are you writing about *really*?
Underline this moment in the manuscript and then free-write on/about that moment and the reverberations that follow or precede it.
Read through your draft and find the heart of the piece. What are you writing about *really*?
Underline this moment in the manuscript and then free-write on/about that moment and the reverberations that follow or precede it.
September 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Brown Bag Lit #RandomWritingPrompt:
Read through your draft and find the heart of the piece. What are you writing about *really*?
Underline this moment in the manuscript and then free-write on/about that moment and the reverberations that follow or precede it.
Read through your draft and find the heart of the piece. What are you writing about *really*?
Underline this moment in the manuscript and then free-write on/about that moment and the reverberations that follow or precede it.