Publication: GROWTH from TL;DR Press

It's here! My beautiful paperback copy of GROWTH: A Speculative Young Adult Collection has arrived containing my short story "Yoko and the Sunbeam Garden." I'm so honored to have this story out in the world.

All proceeds from the eBook & paperback sale of this collection will be donated to the Young People's Trust for the Environment. Check them out here: https://ypte.org.uk/

Buy the book here: Amazon paperback or Kindle version 

Thanks for your support, readers! 

Below is my favorite paragraph from the story:

Cover Reveal for GROWTH

TL;DR Press has revealed the cover for GROWTH: A Speculative Young Adult Collection, which will feature 24 short stories and poems, including mine titled "Yoko and the Sunbeam Garden." Release date coming soon...

 

Short Story Acceptance! "Yoko and the Sunbeam Garden"

Coming in September 2021!

Thrilled to announce that my speculative fiction short story "Yoko and the Sunbeam Garden" was accepted into a YA anthology called GROWTH by TL;DR Press. It will be published in September in both eBook and print forms. TL;DR Press is a charity publisher so all proceeds will benefit YPTE, the Young People's Trust for the Environment.

Submitting Short Stories is Addicting

My summer 2021 update is that I'm submitting short stories to publications and contests again--and it feels addictive! I've finally revisited some stories I workshopped pre-pandemic with my old Atlanta writer's group, Decatur Scribes. I've finished the necessary edits and sent away two stories, one to a contest and one to an anthology. I'm finishing a third story to send an online publication this week.

My other news for July is that I'm taking a personal staycation/writer's retreat for 3 days next week. I'll be staying at a nice little VRBO apartment to focus only on writing. I'm making progress on my novel draft with the hope of submitting for the Pitch Wars mentorship contest this year. Here's the info about that if you're interested: https://pitchwars.org/new-start-here/

Happy writing, Everyone!

--Meg

Publication: Greyrock Review 2021

The 2021 Issue of Greyrock Review has been published! 

My literary nonfiction story "A Library on Wheels" appears from pages 94-103 in the online edition here: GREYROCK REVIEW 2021. 

I hope you enjoy this little pre-pandemic story about a school district librarian working to bring the joy of books to students all over her area with this traveling school bus library!

It's so exciting to see my words in print and my name (nonfiction/married name: Megan Maulsby) on the back cover:

Short Story Acceptance! "A Library on Wheels"

I received a short story acceptance in January (hooray!) for my creative nonfiction tale about a book mobile program in Georgia. I had a wonderful time interviewing the librarians who built the book mobile out of an old school bus for their public school district as well as one of the drivers and a school media specialist who brought kids onto the bus to get free books. As much fun as it was to see the children using the book mobile, there were already a lot of newspaper articles written about the end user experience. So I focused my story on the genesis of the idea, the creation of the program, and the conversion of the school bus. The story, "A Library on Wheels," will be published by the Greyrock Review, the undergraduate literary journal for Colorado State University, in May 2021.