3/23-3/29 BBs: Website Update and other Haps
Book buds:
Hello hello. I hope you all had a dreamy weekend. It was so nice to see some of you at the very first Kill Your Darlings Reading series at Darlings in Easthampton on Saturday. What a total knock out time. The next one is May 16 from 4-6. Hope to see you there!
Website Updates!
This past year fellow BB Ed has helped me update my website! If you haven’t been there in a minute, poke around, it looks awesome. He’s so good at this work. This weekend we shifted things around so that if you need to log into your account to switch your credit card on file or fuss with your account in any other way, there is a log in button right at the top right hand corner of the site. Clicking this will prompt you to either enter the password you created when you signed up for your BB subscription, or gives you an option to reset it if you forgot it. Then you should have access to your profile where you can switch out your cc info or do whatever else you need. Of course, if you have trouble, get in touch with me so I can help from my end.
Feedback Group Submission Schedules!
IRL Group Wednesdays @ beautyland 6:30-8:30: Rich and Genna will have the floor for the upcoming April 1 meeting, no fooling. Pages are due by this weekend, March 28 if possible.
Noon Crew Thursdays 12pm - 1:30: The next meeting is April 2 and Sara will have the floor with pages due on March 26.
Weirdlings Wednesdays 12pm - 1:30: We meet again on April 1 and Ed has the floor with stuff due March 25 if possible with some wiggle room.
Kool Kids Thursdays at 7pm - 8:30: Our next meeting is March 26. Susan and Hilary will have the floor with pages already submitted. Morgan has the floor for our next meeting which will be on April 9.
OG Crew Thursdays at 7:30pm - 9: The next meeting is on April 2 and Malavika and Garth will have the floor with pages due March 26.
Saturday besties 12:30pm - 2: The next meeting is March 28 with floor time for Georgia and Ali. Pages are due March 21.
Book Buddies Being a AWESOME
You all are doing so many cool things lately.
Genna Sarnak has a forthcoming poem (out March 15!) 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!!
Johanna Wilbur won a partial scholarship to this summer’s Martha’s Vinyard Institute of Creative Writing’s Summer Conference which she’ll be attending in June.
Dana Wilde has artwork in issue #8 of Contemporary Collage Magazine. Find her stuff on page 37!!
Gen writing Prompt for this week:
March 24 and 28, 2026
Disconnect
I have been thinking a lot about the ways online spaces have taken over the culture. Funny to say this to you all, a beautiful community that exists largely in an online space. But what can happen in a zoom room where people can speak and react in real time and have a relatively human exchange is different from what I’m thinking of. I’m thinking of social media, and places that lead with individually created content designed to be responded to, where people can perform a self in text that’s quite different than the self they perform in real life. Someone who is docile in kind in the real might be the most aggressive hate monger in anonymous online spaces. Someone who is closed off and stoic in real life might allow themselves vulnerability in a relationship with an AI bot. I want to work with that today.
If this interests you, here are some ideas for story, poem, or essay starters. Let’s start with what I’ve already laid out:
A person who is regarded as soft, docile, and kind in their 3-D life spews hate on the internet. The inciting incident involves someone else discovering this double identity
A stoic and reserved person falls in love with an AI bot
A teenage masquerades as a powerful adult online with disastrous worldwide consequences
A lie spreading online hateful person gets a come-uppance
Someone’s online presence inadvertently results in the collapse of the internet as a whole
A person who has made millions off the internet turns out to be a ten year old kid
The internet convinces someone that their dog will live forever and can talk, and this changes the way they structure their home life.
ALSO, book club is scheduled for Tuesday April 14 and we’re reading God of the Woods by Liz Moore, which I just saw is going to be a movie starring Maya Hawke. Margot’s Got Money Troubles the TV series of a beloved book club book (you all know how much I love Rufi Thorpe) starts on Apple TV on 4/15 and I can’t wait.
That’s all for now folks. I hope you’re all staying afloat. Keep writing. You’re brilliant.
You’re the best.
k
