Melissa Sevigny

Nonfiction #writers: The Ellen Meloy Grant is an amazing opportunity for $5,000 to support a desert-focused project. You also join a really cool & supportive community of people. 🌵 ellenmeloy.com/apply

That was a good way to make some metaphorical lemonade!

What really depresses me about this is how much WORK it generated for the poor editor. Anyone who actually cares about real writing by real humans is now working 1000x harder.

Water Shapes Everything: A Conversation on Western Rivers - Terrain.org Zac Podmore, Rose McMackin, and Becca Lawton, who carry Western rivers in their blood, talk about their boating lives, creative bents, and views of moving water.

New in @terrainorg.bsky.social, a conversation about western rivers by three writers who know what it's like to raft, explore, study, and love them. @rosemcmackin.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...

Orange, white and yellow pumpkins of all sizes gathered round a pine tree.

Pumpkin display update.

A truck bed overflowing with enormous pumpkins of all colors.

So...got to the plant store right when they were hauling all the pumpkins to be composted. This happened.

A small grey cat sits in on a windowsill attacking an ivy vine.

Escalating conflict between Gandalf and the Vine for the sunniest spot in the house.

I mean, YES! I really do!

"successfully invaded" lol

Thanks!!

Probably a dumb question, I know nothing about computers: I'm a writer and use Word. Can I use Word on Linux, or does it have something that is compatible so I don't run into problems when I send files back and forth to editors?

Ooh this sounds perfect

My laptop is melting down, but I'm afraid to buy a new one because it will probably be chock-full of AI systems that I do not want and cannot remove. Advice? Open to a desktop, too.

I love the idea of matching stamps. I remember the days of adding tons of one cent stamps to letters!

One was forwarded by my agent, the other came to my work address.

A forest path peppered in golden Aspen leaves with aspens and pines around

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold (Robert Frost)

It really does! I love snail mail.

A jumble of letters and envelopes, plus one old fashioned photograph

Replying to snail mail fan letters today... International ones no less, from Canada and the UK. These are the moments that make writing a book SO lovely. 🥰

Ooh, congrats @cassidyrandall.bsky.social. Well deserved!

Fantastic! This is such a cool beat.

It's the worst. 😕

omg that worked... I panicked and couldn't think what to do! thank you!!

I can't even describe this disaster, it's a word document where some sentences remain legible and the rest is gibberish... Wingdings, maybe?

OMG just opened up a page of research notes and it looks like this. Help! What's happening?!? #writing

A fresh pulled carrot covered in dirt

Carrot harvest time!

It's a book excerpt, so I suspect there is much more about that in the book. I'll read it and report back.

Twilight Trees - Orion Magazine An elegy for ponderosa pines in a changing west

Loved this excerpt of Gary Ferguson's THE TWILIGHT FOREST in @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Ponderosas offer, he writes, "a feeling of being sheltered—a sense that even when the world is dark there are places you can go to feel some measure of belonging." orionmagazine.org/article/twil...

A smiling blonde woman in a blue dress looking away from the camera

Melissa Sevigny holding a Murrow Award plaque in front of a RTDNA background

Ryan Heinsius and Melissa Sevigny receiving the Murrow Award from CNN's Brian Stelter.

Official photos from the Murrow Awards last Monday! Fun to discover a stealth photo of me by the paparazzi. 📷 credit BP Miller, who is on Insta under @bpmiller_official

Two smiling people in evening dress at an award ceremony

Celebrating national Murrow Award with my editor @ryanheinsius.bsky.social in NYC!

Two Navajo dancers in traditional dress address an unseen crowd beneath projections of Indigenous artwork.

A vertical mural fills a space alongside a staircase, showing Navajo constellations and Hopi symbols.

Photos from yesterday's unveiling of an Indigenous (Navajo/Hopi) mural at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Beautiful artwork by Nanibah Chacon and Gerald Dawavendewa celebrating Indigenous ways of knowing the night sky. 🧪🔭

Someone asked me recently what we do about #science stories that are lost or destroyed or buried. I was lucky to have diaries to reconstruct this story; what if we don't? I said art - fiction, plays, poems - have a lot of power to take fragments and show how things might have been, or could be.