@vcmyers.bsky.social
author of Ophelia (Femme Salvé Books, 2023) & Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019) | Fmr editor/reader Muruch, Barren, Ice Floe, Frontier, Sarabande Books | work in EPOCH, Poet Lore, Bombay Gin, HAD, etc. http://vcmyers.com
this is pretty much my process, too. ideas have to kick around in my head a long time before the words finally come. I envy writers who can just sit at their writing desks & summon the words on command.
be gentle w/ yourself. some days all we can do is survive. 💙 I know that frustration all too well...when life interferes w/ writing. It's why I had to write both my books on my cell in my car in a grocery store parking lot after work. Even doing that is a struggle right now.
Billie Eilish may star in Sarah Polley's film adaptation of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Finally a film being made just for my tastes.
Look at this handsome fellow I just ran into at Trinity, Cambridge. He is a Harris's hawk and his name is Fagan. His job is to shoo pigeons.
I love & felt that first one at Bureau Dispatch so much
3 getting to know me pieces:
"greenhouse for it's all the same & broken" at Yes Poetry:
www.yespoetry.com/news/vc-myer...
"Papier-mâché" @rogueagent.bsky.social:
www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue70
"A Furious Loom" at Luna Luna:
www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/vc-myer...
81°F & tornado watch here now. Overnight forecast 36°F & snow flurries. Climate change is crazier than I am.
I love all these, but this is my favorite 😂
Heh, yeah, don’t piss off writers.
We’ll immortalize you in, uh, creative ways. 😈
good morning, just thinking about how so much of the literary world is built on free work and so many people/institutions profit from the unpaid labor of others
Patagonian landscapes. Exploring the regions around and inbetween El Calafate and El Chaltén, Argentina. Truly spectacular.
this is how I access Bluesky
was planning to see The Bride!, because I love the original Bride of Frankenstein character & Jesse Buckley, but I read that it has an explicit sexual assault scene. :/ So that's 2 Jesse Buckley movies in a row I couldn't see for personal, emotional reasons. I hope she picks a comedy next time.
still enjoying Best Medicine, the U.S. remake of Doc Martin. Martin Clunes, the original Doc Martin, had a cameo this week.
*waves from the other side of the state*
Paradise s2 took a bit to get going, but now I'm hooked again.
barely put my snow shovel away & it's already 84°F in WV today. but wait! there's more!..snow forecast in a week, so I'll be getting the shovel back out. Climate change is a rollercoaster & I so want off of it.
so many friends have new books out & alas I can't afford them right now. stupid utility bills.
Friendos at AWP and friendos not at AWP, do not miss this book by @nematode.bsky.social ! Just got my blurber copy in the mail yesterday and it’s a beaut!
this is the kind of content I'm here for 😂
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR has won the Libby Book Award (a.k.a. the Librarians Choice Award) for Best Science Fiction, 🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🐬!
Full list here: www.libbylife.com/blog/the-win...
@nupress.bsky.social got the hook up. 40% Off!!! Use the link in my bio to hop over to their site and get your deal!
the line breaks on this are as beautiful as the poem...
Clear the ground.
Bloom & grow.
Save your energy for those you love.
one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint
Posting about something other than The Big Event Of The Day does not mean you are unaware or unconcerned or unconsumed. It often means you are striving to remain stable and sane.
Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever
Our March Issue is live!
pitheadchapel.com/2026/03/01/v...
Cover Art by KYLE MERCER
Fiction by
CHARLIE KIEFT
PHEBE KIRKHAM
KATHRYN REESE @kathrynreese.bsky.social
DOUGLAS BAKER
Nonfiction by
AMY TURN SHARP
AUSIÀS TSEL @ausiastsel.com
Prose Poetry by
SEAN CHO A.
LILY CROWDER
MATT POINDEXTER
Thread, kindling, and a boat full of holes …. issue 132 of Rogue Agent is here! Ft poetry by @susanbarryschulz.com Maudie Bryant, LC Gutierrez, Katie Kim, Yasmin Mariam Kloth, @andrewkozma.net Danielle Pafunda, Christopher Phelps, Evyan Roberts, and Ellie White // rogueagentjournal.com/issue132
Hellebore. Daffodil.