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@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Yesterday, I sent 7 dear #betareaders my #WIP, a #campussuspensenovel, for feedback! Now working on a #queryletter body & a synopsis. Next, deep research into #litagents. 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

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September 25, 2026 at 10:55 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Ha! It’s now snowing!

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November 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Finally peeking out of #novelinprogress editing cave.
Last 2-of-6 edits, 🤯🤯 1) re-typed entire MS. Woke new brain cells. 🤔 2) Used #ReadAloud. Found more new brain cells. 💪 Brilliant!
#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #noAIfiction #WIP #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #writersky #authorsky

September 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

My goal this morning, too.

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R W Owen @iviesofinkribbons.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today, I reached 60,000 words in my WIP.

#writesky #wrutingcommunity #amediting

January 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Good morning, #Kaiserstuhl #Aargau #Switzerland!

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A vivid orange sunrise over the skyline of a small Swiss town and the top of its 13th century tower.

January 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Lovely long #writing periods when Central Europe's winter mornings stay dark for so long.

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December 19, 2024 at 7:20 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Asteroid for the day makes #impact. #poemoftheday #katebaer

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Dreena’s Writing (Dreena C) @dreenawriting.co.uk · Feb 15

#poemoftheday

February 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

#PubDay #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #militarybrat #usafbrat #VietnamEra #VietnamWar #LineofAdvance #MiddleWestPress #ColonelDarronLWrightMemorialWritingAwards #vestwrite #writersky #authorsky

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · Nov 4

Publication day! Two of my prize-winning stories are included in #OurBestWarStories. Brilliant works by lives impacted by war—on the battlefront & at home. Thanks to #LineofAdvance and #MiddleWestPress. Thanks to the editing team & congrats to all included!

www.middlewestpress.com/2025/09/new-...

New Volume Collects 60+ Col. Darron L. Wright Award-winning Stories & Poems

Editors of Chicago-based non-profit literary journal Line of Advance ( www.LineOfAdvance.org ) have announced a new, second volume collecti...

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November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Can you shift the interior place from where your #write? To its true source? Treat yourself. #SeaRiverSanctuary

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Lidia Yuknavitch @lidiamiles.bsky.social · Nov 16

we have been working on growing new forms of sanctuary from within chaos. there are so many forms of sanctuary. Welcome to SeaRiver Sanctuary- Rewilding Writing. Solidarity and love :: We appreciate your support :: link in comments ::

November 20, 2024 at 10:24 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Happy Holidays—me! I've just gifted myself two @tinhouse.bsky.social craft intensives. 🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️

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December 13, 2024 at 7:05 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

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Enjoy this brilliant read! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻(And greetings from #AuxerreFrance!)

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Alnaaze Nathoo @alnaaze.bsky.social · Sep 16

Hi there! I'm excited to announce that I have a short story published in @thewritelaunch.bsky.social this month. Parent-child relationships are always complicated, much more so as we get older. I try to explore that here.
#writersky
#writing
#shortstories

thewritelaunch.com/2025/09/she-...

She Doesn't Remember | Short Story by Alnaaze Nathoo in the September 4, 2025 issue of The Write Launch

Her phone buzzed: Lia pulled it out of her pocket to check the incoming message, expecting a meme, or a friend sending pictures from her latest walk. It was not. “I was there this morning: she’s refus...

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September 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Always liked #Fridaythe13th ever since celebrating my 13th birthday on a Friday the 13th. ❤️🙏🏻😎🤓

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December 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Working on my final chapter. What a journey! It's like highway building, though: As soon as you're done, it's back to your starting point for repairs.

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March 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Like magic, I've reached 1k followers. Thank you @bsky.app! Thank you followers for spoiling me! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP

November 21, 2024 at 11:17 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

My novel's 1st draft is finished. I'm editing a chapter to submit to my ❤️ #critiquegroup.

Focus. Ignore the #coup. For now.

But why, #USA? Why?

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March 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Received a stunning rejection that made me feel almost as good as an acceptance?!?! Wish all rejections gave me such good feels!

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May 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM

Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social

Brilliant news!

Time to get yourself some @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's #flashfiction. Tender, funny, hard-hitting, honest. A world appearing too seldom in print. @santafewriter.bsky.social

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · Jan 22

Woke up to this wonderful news from my publisher @santafewriter.bsky.social!!

My book made One of Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 list @msmagazine.com!!

Wooohooooo!!

msmagazine.com/2025/01/21/a...