April 6-13 2026

Written By Kate Senecal

Dearest Book Buds:

I hope you all had a great weekend, and that Passover last week and/or Easter this weekend were lovely if you celebrate either.

Here is another reminder that Book Club is coming up! We’ll gather on April 14th, Tuesday, at 7pm instead of Gen Writing that day. We’re reading Liz Moore’s novel, God of the Woods. If you want to know more about it then you can read the synopsis and stuff here. I loved this one, and hope you do too. It should be a really fun discussion. I just read that they’re making a movie of it starring Maya Hawke.

In other news, for those of you that loved Rufi Thorpe’s book Margot’s Got Money Troubles, the Apple TV series they made of it launches on April 15! I’m excited to watch.

Feedback Group Submission Schedules!

IRL Group Wednesdays @ beautyland 6:30-8:30: The next meeting is April 15 and Genna and Johanna floor time. Pages are due Wednesday April 8 if possible, but like usual we can push to the weekend if you need the extra time.

Noon Crew Thursdays 12pm - 1:30: The next meeting is April 16 and Ezra will have the floor with pages due April 9.

Weirdlings Wednesdays 12pm - 1:30: We meet again on April 15 and Erika has the floor. Pages due on April 8!

Kool Kids Thursdays at 7pm - 8:30: Our next meeting is April 9 and Morgan has floor time. Pages are in! The following meeting is April 23. Elli and Kristin have floor time with pages due April 16.

OG Crew Thursdays at 7:30pm - 9: The next meeting is on April 16 and Maia and Kristina have the floor with pages due on April 9.

Saturday besties 12:30pm - 2: The next meeting is April 11 with floor time for Helen and Ali. Pages are due ASAP.

Book Buddies Being AMAZING in the wild

You all are doing so many cool things lately. Keeping the announcements up from last week and adding a few:

Genna Sarnak was featured in Straw Dogs has a poem in Faoilenach Journal: https://www.faoileanachjournal.com/. She’s also got another poem out via Scapegoat Review. You can read it here. AND she has another poem in PHIL LIT journal which you can read here and also vote for as your fave from that journal’s Spring issue. Let’s all rally for Genna and get her poem up to #1!!

Casey Liston is raising money for 826 Boston, a nonprofit that runs free writing and publishing programs for students in Boston Public Schools. To thank her donors, she is writing microfiction stories on a subject of their choosing for anyone who gives $50+. She would love to write you a story while supporting this great cause! The fundraiser runs through April 16 and you can view her page here. 

Rebecca Tiger has a new piece out inspired by a Gen Writing prompt (yay!): http://www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/mug-shot.html. She also has a piece out last week in Hot Flash Literary: https://hotflashliterary.com/anosmia/ which she wrote based off a prompt from gen writing! Hurray!

Gen writing Prompt for this week:

April 7 and 11, 2026

Location, Location, Location

Let’s mess around with setting this week!

Write a new piece in the genre of your choice that takes place in one of the following spots: 

  • A funeral

  • A voyage to the moon

  • On safari

  • On a climb of a huge mountain — Everest, Mt. Kilimanjaro

  • An open layout office

  • Somewhere in the US before, after, and/or during a tornado

  • A work conference

  • A wedding

  • A prom or school dance

  • An amusement park

  • The movie theater

  • The circus

  • On an airplane

That’s all for now! Remember, you are the best writers I’ve ever met in my life.

Your bestie -

Kate

Kate Senecal
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