@caitlindmcgill.bsky.social - Caitlin McGill

12 Dec 2025 16:14 +0000

I wrote about the fear of failure, and the worry that I won't do anything with all of my ideas: free to read here! #amwriting #artists #memoir #fiction #writingcommunity https://caitlindmcgill.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-my-ideas

28 Jul 2025 15:20 +0000

A new essay, some fiction, & an old letter. What have you been working on? https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlindmcgill/p/summer-discoveries?r=650gx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

28 May 2025 14:40 +0000

Also sharing this piece from last year, which I read at @awpwriter.bsky.social and hold up here for my #sober & sober curious friends: "Through the Threads," a flash #essay up at Hunger Mountain Review. @vcfa.bsky.social https://hngrmtn.org/issues/hunger-mountain-29/creative-nonfiction/

28 May 2025 14:36 +0000

Briefly stepping out of my social media break to offer this to anyone who needs it—"Creating Differently, & Writing Slumps" #writingcommunity https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlindmcgill/p/creating-differently?r=650gx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

01 May 2025 12:40 +0000

An incredibly important, moving essay by my friend Alysia Abbott. Please read and share. @mizabbott.bsky.social https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2025/04/25/robert-kennedy-jr-public-health-autism-alysia-abbott

18 Apr 2025 14:35 +0000

Writer-teachers! Deadline for this 2-year position is April 29th! Please share!! :) https://www.higheredjobs.com/institution/details.cfm?JobCode=179108424&Title=Visiting%20Assistant%20Teaching%20Professor%20of%20English

28 Mar 2025 16:29 +0000

Today at 12:10pm! So pumped to talk about freedom and joy in writing sobriety! #awp25 #sobriety @natalielima09.bsky.social @paulhaney.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social

27 Mar 2025 17:14 +0000

Such a killer new piece by Kat Gonso! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

26 Mar 2025 13:52 +0000

Please join us Friday AWP!! :) Can't wait to hear from the audience <3 "Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way" 12:10pm-1:25pm, Room 518, Level Two #awp25 @paulhaney.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social

15 Mar 2025 12:22 +0000

The memoir is finally down to 88k thanks to my INCREDIBLE readers and friends (thank you!!!!), and thanks to so many years of rewriting and cutting and rewriting and cutting and rewriting. 🥹 #memoir

09 Mar 2025 13:57 +0000

Bless the protestors standing outside on busy Broad Street yesterday in the Richmond suburbs.

06 Mar 2025 14:36 +0000

HUGE congrats to @laurenfsharma.bsky.social for her gripping, important novel, CASUALTIES OF TRUTH. I did not want to put it down, did not want it to end. I’m still thinking about Prudence. The writing and the story—just incredible. Get your copy friends!!! https://bookshop.org/p/books/casualties-of-truth/21527935

05 Mar 2025 14:27 +0000

My partner and I were up late last night discussing the bleak present and future, and I'm just so tired. But I'm going to keep telling stories and help others do the same. We have to. Also, we have to take breaks.

26 Feb 2025 14:26 +0000

Am I writing or am I searching for interactive cat toys as my indoor/outdoor cat cries and I try to tell her what's been happening to the birds?

19 Feb 2025 17:38 +0000

I would love to hear more about what everyone is counting as their writing for the day! Helps me feel less anguish at how few words I am writing...lately I've been reading and posting about other people's books and checking email... [contains quote post or other embedded content]