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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Sometimes two opposing things can be true at the same time. Write a situation in this happens. (Photo from Evora, Portugal, in 2019.)

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt: Sometimes being bored or otherwise without a plan allows you to be more open to a new idea. Take a walk or daydream or just look at something pretty. Allow yourself to be open. Then free write for ten minutes or so and see what comes. Share your thoughts below, if you like.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#Randomwritingprompt from Brown Bag Lit: Some of us are really feeling the Mondays. For today's prompt, Get.It.Out. What hurts? What is stopping you? Free yourself by writing it all down and move on.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended our Brown Bag Lit generative workshop hosted by Jehanne Dubrow today! If you missed it, you can find the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlvX...

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Jehanne Dubrow poetry workshop: on writing work that engages with trauma

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happening now - you can still join us! www.brownbaglit.com/events

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at noon for a Brown Bag Lit workshop hosted by Jehanne Dubrow! Register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We look forward to hosting Jehanne Dubrow on Friday (12 - 1:30 pm EST) for a free, generative and online workshop focused on writing work that engages with trauma. This workshop comes out of her book The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma.

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Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here are the books for the workshop! Join us?

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Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last chance to join my fall, MFA style poetry writing workshop through @brownbaglit.bsky.social! We start next week (poems due this week.) We read 4 poetry collections and 2 craft book - & workshop your poems together & privately in monthly conferences. One seat left: www.brownbaglit.com/programs

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Where are you headed? Look ahead. The fall schedule is about to rev up. What are your writing goals for this season?

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt: Where is home for you? Is it a town? Building? Scent? Person? Free-write for 5-10 minutes and see what comes up. Remember a prompt is a prompt - just a place to start. You might find yourself ending up somewhere else. You are invited to share how it went in the comments.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#Randomwritingprompt: Poppies can symbolize peace and remembrance for those who died during WWII. Is there a particular flower that symbolizes something for you? Spend some time describing the flower and connecting it to the meaning you (and/or others) have assigned it. You might start with a poppy.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We are looking forward to fall Brown Bag Lit programming! We just sent out our email with some details. See you there! www.brownbaglit.com Let us know if you'd like to be added to the newsletter (DM us): mailchi.mp/b848399c5ac2... with @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social @shastagrant.bsky.social

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Brown Bag Lit co-founders, @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social and @shastagrant.bsky.social , together at @politicsprose.bsky.social Bookstore in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Shasta's debut novel, When We Were Feral (Regal House Publishing)!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Close your eyes and stand outside somewhere near trees and nature. Listen. What do you hear? Rustling of leaves? Crickets? Your own thoughts? Memories?

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Listen to co-founder @shastagrant.bsky.social 's interview on @literarymama.bsky.social's podcast This Mama is Lit! literarymama.substack.com/p/shasta-gra...

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Chloe here! While sometimes math stresses me out, I love when there's a clear answer. Choose your favorite number or equation to write about. What kind of memory is associated with it? What kind of feelings?

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Join Brown Bag Lit next month in welcoming Jehanne Dubrow! She's offering a poetry workshop on writing work that engages with trauma. Register to join us: www.brownbaglit.com/events (Free and online!)

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Come and hear our co-founders in DC!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Is it hot where you are? Work to describe temperature through description (the effects of heat, the colors, the light, etc.)

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt Choose a color & name the different shades. As we are deep into the summer, here's a photo of various shades of blue. You can choose the color you want to start with. After you have a list, work these names into a piece showing a progression from light to dark or dark to light.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt Brown Bag Lit co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social is in Italy and loves to marvel at the supermarket aisles dedicated to pasta. Today, write about food shopping. What do you always look for or enjoy exploring in the supermarket? What feels like home in these aisles?

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If you are in Florence, Italy, stop by NYU in Florence tonight to hear our co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social read poetry!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Happy pub day to Brown Bag Lit co-founder @shastagrant.bsky.social ! You will *LOVE* her debut novel When We Were Feral! www.shastagrant.com

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Shasta Grant

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Close your eyes and think of a color - or many colors! What color draws you in? What do you think of or feel while you immerse yourself in that color?

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Congratulations to Brown Bag Lit Co-Founders @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social and @shastagrant.bsky.social for being on A Fresh Story Podcast about their books! Listen here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We sent out an email update! Let us know if you'd like to be added to our mailing list. While we're pausing our writing accountability group and events for the summer, you can read our Milk Journal pieces for recommendations, check out our recordings & register for a fall poetry workshop!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Start with an expression and see where it takes you. For example, "Bless your heart" or "Aren't you precious?" What are some of your favorites? Find more here englishlive.ef.com/en/blog/engl...

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We'll miss our Lunch Break Writers over the summer! Thanks for a great open mike yesterday! See you in the fall! www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break with @shastagrant.bsky.social and @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt: Write the most human thing you can write - use all of your senses - that is to say, don't use AI. Remember your body, our planet and all of our human sensations. Go outside and stand in the rain. Look up. Look at trees. Look at your hands. You are here. Write.

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Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Congratulations to @shastagrant.bsky.social , my friend and @brownbaglit.bsky.social co-founder! HER DEBUT NOVEL IS HERE! It officially releases in June but my pre-order is HERE! www.shastagrant.com

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Congratulations to our co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social! Read and listen below -

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Thank you to Bernadine (Dine) Watson for discussing Dixon, Descending (Dutton) with Karen Outen for Brown Bag Lit's Milk Journal! www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Congratulations to co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social! We're proud you wrote this during our Lunch Break Writers!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Attention: Poets! Looking for a small-group, MFA style poetry workshop this fall? Check out co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social's workshop; ONE seat remains!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: What's up the stairs? Can your character hear sounds that map the space that they can't see? (You can change this prompt to be "what's down the stairs," or "what's down the hallway?")

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Come out and see co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social at The Gaithersburg Book Festival if you are in the DMV!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Thank you to Eileen Minnefor for reviewing Daria Sommers’s SAWADIKA AMERICAN GIRL (Vine Leaves Press) for Milk Journal! www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Choose a paint chip color and name (you might try the Sherwin Williams link below) and write from there. samples.sherwin-williams.com?gad_source=1...

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Chloe here! Write about this fellow. (His brightness and cheerful wave cracked me up the first time I saw him. Here's to joy!)

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Are you in the DMV? Come hear our co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social read on Thursday at the Georgetown @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt (really an editing prompt) from @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social: Choose something you've written and work to tighten the frame. Where is the main energy of the piece? What can be cut out? (I think of this as looking through the window. What do you want to include in the frame?)

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Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Tomorrow is the last day of my current Brown Bag Lit poetry workshop. It has been another great one! Check out the books we read (we also workshop student poems...) What joy to spend so much time reading and discussing poetry! I'm starting to plan for next semester. Click through for more-

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Thank you to Jehanne Dubrow for joining Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break members on Thursday for a generative writing workshop from her new craft book, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma. Join our writing accountability group today to join the workshop: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social here! For today's writing prompt, focus on how light - and/or darkness - can illuminate a moment. In the picture below, the silhouettes only appear because of both the light and darkness.

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