Please join me on Tuesday, October 29th, from 6-9pm for a chat, some prompts, and a supportive speculative writing community. The location of this Write-In is TBC for now. Hopefully we'll be at the BPL in Copley, but they don't book rooms more than two weeks in advance. If the BPL does not work out, we'll go […]
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