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”
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New followers! An intro: I’m a queer multi-genre writer finishing a short story manuscript. My work is devastating, funny, weird/absurd, fantastical, & about connection. Black Warrior Review nominated this one for Best of the Net 2024 (on grief and professional cuddling): bwr.ua.edu/project/spoo...
More people than you know, unless you know. This is a good thread that breaks silence with action.
TW: Suicide
If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1
If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1
August 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
More people than you know, unless you know. This is a good thread that breaks silence with action.
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There is an old Soviet short animated film based on the story, psychedelic af www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNH...
"There Will Come Soft Rains" - Budet Laskovyj Dozhd
Story by: Ray BradburyDirector: Nazim TulyakhodzayevRussia - 1987Animated Film based on Ray Bradbury's Sci-Fi novel "The Martian Chronicles", on the short s...
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January 24, 2024 at 11:48 PM
There is an old Soviet short animated film based on the story, psychedelic af www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNH...
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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
August 4, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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One reason the PCC unions are winning the public relations war is that we don't have professional public relations people doing all of our comms. It's just teachers, staff, and students talking about how they are trying to go to school and afford groceries.
March 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
One reason the PCC unions are winning the public relations war is that we don't have professional public relations people doing all of our comms. It's just teachers, staff, and students talking about how they are trying to go to school and afford groceries.
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Portland! We hope you will join us this weekend to rally and march for PCC workers fighting for fair wages and benefits. ✊💙
March 3, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Portland! We hope you will join us this weekend to rally and march for PCC workers fighting for fair wages and benefits. ✊💙
My institution, Portland Community College, is in week 3 of a strike after 11 months of bargaining. My colleague friend wrote this powerful essay depicting the financial precarity of our faculty, which is of course a national trend. charlottedr.substack.com/p/behind-the...
@pccffap.bsky.social
@pccffap.bsky.social
Behind the Picket Line
For instructors on strike, financial precarity is nothing new
charlottedr.substack.com
March 26, 2026 at 2:39 PM
My institution, Portland Community College, is in week 3 of a strike after 11 months of bargaining. My colleague friend wrote this powerful essay depicting the financial precarity of our faculty, which is of course a national trend. charlottedr.substack.com/p/behind-the...
@pccffap.bsky.social
@pccffap.bsky.social
I’m having trouble keeping up with life in general, which explains my absence here.
March 26, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I’m having trouble keeping up with life in general, which explains my absence here.
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Just been made aware of Haiti's winter Olympics get-up.
That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.
That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.
February 5, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Just been made aware of Haiti's winter Olympics get-up.
That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.
That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.
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Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:
In first Christmas sermon, Pope Leo decries conditions for Palestinians in Gaza
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across...
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:
A Christmas gift to get my contributor’s copy of Switchyard, fittingly themed THE END. My story “The Long Desired Child” appears inside, with dazzling illustrations by Clay Rodery. This piece is one of a few in my current collection engaged w/ childless grief.
www.switchyardmag.com/issue-5/desi...
www.switchyardmag.com/issue-5/desi...
December 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A Christmas gift to get my contributor’s copy of Switchyard, fittingly themed THE END. My story “The Long Desired Child” appears inside, with dazzling illustrations by Clay Rodery. This piece is one of a few in my current collection engaged w/ childless grief.
www.switchyardmag.com/issue-5/desi...
www.switchyardmag.com/issue-5/desi...
Yes!
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yes!
Highlighting these attributes we are looking for in applicants for the Portland Community College FT position in Reading, Writing, & English who will mostly teach 1Y Composition. See full post.
Linguistic diversity, antiracist composition, rhetorical sovereignty, multilingual writers
Reflective writing, teaching for transfer, metacognition.
Reflective writing, teaching for transfer, metacognition.
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Highlighting these attributes we are looking for in applicants for the Portland Community College FT position in Reading, Writing, & English who will mostly teach 1Y Composition. See full post.
I have been asked to share this FT opening at PCC. Please pass along to anyone who would be a good fit. (More in replies).
Portland Community College seeks applicants for a full-time tenure-track position in our Reading, Writing, and English Program.
Here's the official posting:
Portland Community College seeks applicants for a full-time tenure-track position in our Reading, Writing, and English Program.
Here's the official posting:
Instructor, Reading, Writing, and English (FT)
Join our Team at Portland Community College Portland Community College is the largest post-secondary institution in Oregon and 19th largest in the nation, serving approximately 80,000 full- and part-t...
portlandcc.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I have been asked to share this FT opening at PCC. Please pass along to anyone who would be a good fit. (More in replies).
Portland Community College seeks applicants for a full-time tenure-track position in our Reading, Writing, and English Program.
Here's the official posting:
Portland Community College seeks applicants for a full-time tenure-track position in our Reading, Writing, and English Program.
Here's the official posting:
I’m really pretty tired of getting sick the minute I turn my grades in, every fall, like clockwork. Kvetch.
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I’m really pretty tired of getting sick the minute I turn my grades in, every fall, like clockwork. Kvetch.
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what I love about Kobayashi Issa's haikus is how they're full of play as much as levity, in fact the play and levity are inextricable from each other. as a result, even in a tiny form, nothing feels like it's only one note, and across many haikus, nothing is iterative.
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
what I love about Kobayashi Issa's haikus is how they're full of play as much as levity, in fact the play and levity are inextricable from each other. as a result, even in a tiny form, nothing feels like it's only one note, and across many haikus, nothing is iterative.
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This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”
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Do I know any LGBTQ+ folks who work (or have worked) in higher education who would be willing to offer some Indiana youth (who also identify as LGBTQ+) tips and resources for returning to non-affirming homes over holiday breaks? DM me! Or email me at Ashley dot Ford at Free Press Indiana dot org :)
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Do I know any LGBTQ+ folks who work (or have worked) in higher education who would be willing to offer some Indiana youth (who also identify as LGBTQ+) tips and resources for returning to non-affirming homes over holiday breaks? DM me! Or email me at Ashley dot Ford at Free Press Indiana dot org :)
Fig walked me to the pet store and put up with this sparkly antler photo-op, just to make you smile. Are you happy, now?
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Fig walked me to the pet store and put up with this sparkly antler photo-op, just to make you smile. Are you happy, now?
Someone make this happen.
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Someone make this happen.
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.
My kettlebell coach keeps wigging me out by playing Toad the Wet Sprocket during mobility classes. That is all I have to say shout that.
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My kettlebell coach keeps wigging me out by playing Toad the Wet Sprocket during mobility classes. That is all I have to say shout that.
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).
Kind personal rejection from a dream publication (after a year hanging onto the piece) and long-listed for a prize at another dream pub (same piece). O the bittersweet nature of almost!
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Kind personal rejection from a dream publication (after a year hanging onto the piece) and long-listed for a prize at another dream pub (same piece). O the bittersweet nature of almost!