3/15 Virtual Retreat: 3/9 -3/15 BB Happenings
BBs:
I don’t know about you but Daylight Savings Time kicked my BUTT. I am still so sleepy! I did, however, finally go see Wuthering Heights this weekend and I loved it. Super different from the book, and I really enjoyed both for different reasons. Have you seen or read? I want to talk about it!
Here’s what’s up for this upcoming week:
THIS SUNDAY! March 15 Virtual Retreat Coming For You
Most of you know that I am on the hunt for a new space to do in person retreats. In the interim, I’m offering a short 5 hour virtual retreat THIS COMING Sunday March 15 from 12-5pmEST (on zoom). It’s just $60 with the option to add on a 30 minute coaching sesh if you want. Here’s the schedule:
We’ll meet on zoom at noon and share our work plans for the day with each other. (12-12:30ish)
Write, write, write. Camera off. If you sign up for an additional 30 minute coaching session we’ll do that during the window. (12:30ish - 4:15/4:30 depending on size of group!)
We’ll report out on how it went, then make a plan for the next leg of work on your project. (4:30 -5)
No sharing and feedback like we do in gen writing/in person retreats. This is a get it done and process talk sort of scene, ideal for folks who have been itching to get a full day of uninterrupted writing in but also want to spend a day in cozy clothes.
A few of you have mentioned that you’re interested in coming. If this is you sign up ASAP if you can! Let me know if you have questions or anything - send me a text or an email.
Feedback Group Submission Schedules!
IRL Group Wednesdays @ beautyland 6:30-8:30: Next meeting is March 18 Aimee and Johanna have pages due March 11. Rich and either Chris or Genna will have the floor for the April 1 meeting, no fooling.
Noon Crew Thursdays 12pm - 1:30: The next meeting is March 19 and Jill will have the floor with pages due on March 12. Sara, you’re up after that for the April 2 meeting.
Weirdlings Wednesdays 12pm - 1:30: We meet again on March 18th and Dana has the floor with stuff due by March 11. Ed, it’s all you for the April 1 meeting.
Kool Kids Thursdays at 7pm - 8:30: Our next meeting is March 12. Elli and Kristin will have the floor with pages already in. We will also welcome Susan back from her hiatus and decide on the floor time schedule going forward when we’re together on the 12th.
OG Crew Thursdays at 7:30pm - 9: The next meeting is on March 19. Tom is up in the rotation with pages due on March12. The following meeting is April 2 and Malavika and someone else will have the floor. We can finalize at our next meeting.
Saturday besties 12:30pm - 2: The next meeting is March 14 with floor time for Helen and Ali. Pages are due March 7. Also potential that we’ll start at 1 instead of 12:30 so I can go to my bestie’s little one’s 5th birthday party!
Book Buddies Being a Big Deal
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/
Georgia Silverman just spent last week at AWP tabling for Lauren Cerand, PR specialist, like a total boss.
Gen Writing Prompt for this Week:
Heads up: Garth is subbing for me on Saturday March 14, but I’ll be with you as usual on Tuesday the 10th.
March 10 and 14, 2026
A Rose by any other name...
OK pals, we’re gonna work with titles this week. I’m going to make up ten titles below, and your job is to write the thing that you think that title wants to be. Here we go:
Dinosaur Genius
The Museum of the Lost
Fire!
A Terrific Time
Blush Wine and the Hungry Daughter
I Thought You Would Say No
Vampires at Band Camp (sorry it was too good not to use for another week)
Body Problems
Daisy Chain Factory
Wyoming
Kill Your Darlings Reading Series
As I said a few weeks ago, the Dreamaway Reading series has moved to Darlings in Easthampton and is now called Kill Your Darlings Reading Series! The first one is Saturday 3/21 from 4-6. I would love to see you!
Come watch 3 brilliant writers giving 15 minute performances at Darlings Bar + Cafe in Easthampton. Every other month. Hosted by Rachel Lyon, Emily Lackey, and ME.
March readers are:
Elena Azzoni is an Italian-American writer whose work explores identity, desire, and the long road back to the body. She is the author of A Year Straight (Seal Press, Hachette, 2011), and her work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Elle, make/shift magazine, The Stephanie Miller Show, and feminist anthology, We Don't Need Another Wave (Seal Press, Hachette, 2006). Elena holds an MFA in Creative Inquiry from New College of California, where she studied under renowned activist poet, Judy Grahn. She also holds a BA in Women’s Studies and Social Thought & Political Economy from UMass, Amherst, and is currently pursuing an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Elena lives with her family in Brooklyn, NY.Her debut novel, Tizzy, will be released in March 2026 by RISE BOOKS (Simon & Schuster).
Sara Rauch is the author of WHAT SHINES FROM IT: STORIES and XO. Her writing has most recently appeared in Vast Chasm, Cutleaf, The Spectacle, Revolute, and Paranoid Tree. She lives in Holyoke with her family. www.sararauch.com
Shea Mowat was born in Mainse to a lobsterman-artist and a social worker-seeker and has been pretty darn busy ever since. He is the author of a unique and reasonably priced ($1.99) pamphlet, 199 REASONS YOU SHOULDN'T PAY FOR THISS OVERPRICED PAMPHLET, which is enjoying its second printing by Looky Here Press, and the author/illustrator of an all-ages picture book, . . . DOT . . . , forthcoming (Spring of 2026_ from Boat in the Road Books. Shea has never left New England. He lives and works here with his darlin' wife and their two darlin' sons
Next Book Club!
Next book club is April 14th from 7-8:30 instead of Gen Writing. We’re reading Liz Moore’s God of The Woods which if you get started now should be a breezy read!
That’s it for this week, folks!
keep on keeping on!
XO
