Tuesday Book Club @7pmEST and BB updates 4/13-4/19
Book Buddies:
Hello my favorites. How’s your writing going?
Book Club is this week, already, I can’t even believe it. Time is ccrazy. We’ll gather on April 14th, TOMORROW, 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. If you want to go down a rabbit hole, here are a few interviews you can check out before we meet:
NYT Book Review interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wqa7XYRvUQ
Sun Valley Writer’s Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7GUjxXmcA
REMINDER: NO GEN WRITING TUESDAY 4/14. BOOK CLUB @7PM EST INSTEAD!
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 from Genna are in. Johanna’s will be in our inboxes tonight. We meet again on April 29th. Aimee and Rich will have the floor.
Noon Crew Thursdays 12pm - 1:30: The next meeting is April 16 and we’re going to talk about publishing and finding agents etc. I’ll send you all materials by tomorrow!
Weirdlings Wednesdays 12pm - 1:30: We meet again on April 15 and Erika has the floor. Pages are in already! Elizabeth will have the floor for our April 29 meeting.
Kool Kids Thursdays at 7pm - 8:30: Our next meeting is is April 23. Elli and Susan have floor time with pages due April 16.
OG Crew Thursdays at 7:30pm - 9: The next meeting is on April 16. Tom and Kristina have the floor and pages are already in. Next time Tom will have a solo slot and submit the first 25 pages of his revised beginning. We’ll meet on April 30th!
Saturday besties 12:30pm - 2: The next meeting is April 25 and Nora and Georgia have floor time. Pages due on April 18.
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. The actual event: the Half, Half, Half, Half, Half marathon is happening this Thursday in Boston!
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:
We’re going to use last week’s prompt for Saturday’s gen writing since we’re only doing it once this week due to book club!
April 18, 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
