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Megan Giddings

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My first short story collection, Black Arts, comes out on September 8th. Yes, I do live in Minneapolis. Boss, I'm tired. www.megangiddings.com

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i am deeply looking forward to reading the follow the money book someone is hopefully writing right now about the whole manchester city 114 charges. baby, you've got sportswashing, fake websites/brands, many potential lawsuits to come, oasis
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Save the date! My Hungry Ghosts virtual event with Moon Palace Books! Next Tuesday Sept 29 at 4:30 pm PT/6:30 pm CT/7:30 pm ET. I’ll be in conversation with author Laurie Hertzel. Register here for the link to join: www.crowdcast.io/c/4tcbzpyzdyy8
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My Hungry Ghosts by May-lee Chai
Register now for My Hungry Ghosts by May-lee Chai on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 29, 2026, 06:30 PM CDT.
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
dark times where I am thrilled to finally read a review where the reviewer actually has something insightful and interesting to say about writing as a craft: www.vulture.com/article/min-...
When novelists pair sympathetic free indirect discourse with critical omniscience, they can enlarge readers' sympathies and say something wise from Sanjena Sathian's review of American Hagwon
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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 20/09/2026
I have done it; I have procured Black Arts by @megiddings.bsky.social
a picture of the book "Black Arts" by Megan Giddings held against a white background
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
one of the wonderful things about teaching is when a student brings in a poem you loved when you were a student but have not thought about in years and you have to keep yourself from crying a little in class when he reads the poem to you all: poets.org/poem/song
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The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our next podcast episode is out featuring @megiddings.bsky.social on her new short story collection and the upcoming Short Story Summit on Sept 30 in partnership with @umnenglish.bsky.social, plus a fun listen to the voices of Youth Pride night this past summer. www.buzzsprout.com/2639994/epis...
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Short Stories, Big Ideas: Crafting Short Fiction with Megan Giddings - The Loft Lit Podcast
In this episode of The Loft Lit Podcast, host Chris Jones sits down with University of Minnesota assistant professor Megan Giddings (and author of the new short story collection Black Arts). Ahead of ...
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T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ARCADE SEVENTEEN is one of my all time favorite collections so can't express how excited I am to read @megiddings.bsky.social's newest collection! bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
Photo of the book Black Arts by Megan Giddings. The cover features a black woman tinged in a deep blue covered by a green silk blanket.
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
all of the latest A I news has such big teacher-my-homework-was-going-so-well-that-I-realized-I-was-inventing-new-and-dangerous-ideas-that would-upheave-the-global-order-and-that's-why-I've-turned-in-no-work-and-not-attended-any-class-meetings-after-week-2 energy
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Lynda Turner @iketle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I love pre-ordering books. Helps the authors of course, but also i always forget I ordered it and get a nice surprise when my local independent bookstore calls to tell me to come pick it up. Looking forward to this one! @megiddings.bsky.social
Book cover for Black Arts by Megan Giddings. A grey background with a picture of a black woman with purplr skin wrapped in teal satin fabric with a chain wrapped around her arm and down the fabric.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 11/09/2026
A data center developer is backing out of plans to buy the Minnesota Star Tribune’s shuttered printing plant in Minneapolis weeks after the proposal drew fierce backlash from neighbors.
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Data center developer backs out of plans to buy Minnesota Star Tribune’s shuttered printing plant
Legacy Investing terminated its purchase agreement weeks after North Loop neighbors blasted its data center proposal.
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UMN English @umnenglish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Prof @megiddings.bsky.social today publishes her debut story collection Black Arts (Amistad), with a launch 7pm tonight at Magers & Quinn—congratulations! "High marks for this ebullient, ideas-driven collection" - Publishers Weekly. Giddings is the author most recently of Meet Me at the Crossroads:
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Black Arts
The very first story collection from the critically acclaimed, visionary author of the novels Lakewood, The Women Could Fly, and Meet Me at the Crossroads O...
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
hello, today the final story in my collection, "How to Be a Black Writer" is in @literaryhub.bsky.social: lithub.com/how-to-be-a-... the story is in stylistic conversation with Lorrie Moore's "how to become a writer" and Kiese Laymon's "you are the second person"
From the screenshotted excerpt: "You chose this program based on money and because you never had a Black person of any gender teach you anything about writing or reading. You learned math and Black Studies and the safest way to blow and push life into another person from other Black people, but none of them had taught you how to tell a story.

There is a family legend about how you learned how to read, that one day you were sitting at a kitchen table, four years old, beads in your hair because you were fresh back from a visit to your Mom-Mom’s, and you said something like, “Good morning. I hate Mondays. Lasagna,” and your parents realized you were reading a comic aloud to yourself. Reading came to you like a sudden burst into fruit brought forth by unseen winds.

You wanted a lineage. Sometimes, creating one doesn’t take generations upon generations. It can be established, at least in the arts, with the right, thoughtful conversation or idea passed around a table in two hours and forty-five minutes on a rainy Tuesday afternoon.

I want to tell you that you’ll make it through this year. But did you?
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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📚 Happy Pub Day. BLACK ARTS: STORIES by Megan Giddings is out today from Amistad. Thirteen stories where the supernatural sits down at the kitchen table. Black art has always been part craft, part conjure. sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
hello, today the final story in my collection, "How to Be a Black Writer" is in @literaryhub.bsky.social: lithub.com/how-to-be-a-... the story is in stylistic conversation with Lorrie Moore's "how to become a writer" and Kiese Laymon's "you are the second person"
From the screenshotted excerpt: "You chose this program based on money and because you never had a Black person of any gender teach you anything about writing or reading. You learned math and Black Studies and the safest way to blow and push life into another person from other Black people, but none of them had taught you how to tell a story.

There is a family legend about how you learned how to read, that one day you were sitting at a kitchen table, four years old, beads in your hair because you were fresh back from a visit to your Mom-Mom’s, and you said something like, “Good morning. I hate Mondays. Lasagna,” and your parents realized you were reading a comic aloud to yourself. Reading came to you like a sudden burst into fruit brought forth by unseen winds.

You wanted a lineage. Sometimes, creating one doesn’t take generations upon generations. It can be established, at least in the arts, with the right, thoughtful conversation or idea passed around a table in two hours and forty-five minutes on a rainy Tuesday afternoon.

I want to tell you that you’ll make it through this year. But did you?
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
broke: idly memeposting about isaac chotiner calling you up with some questions bespoke: idly memeposting about nathan fielder moving into your home to do an intensive documentary about the nature of reality
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hello! Today I'm over in @publisherswkly.bsky.social talking about some reality-breaking short story collections: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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5 Short Story Collections Where Reality Is Broken
Megan Giddings recommends the fiction that inspired her genre-fluid collection, 'Black Arts,' which uses horror tropes, metafiction, and speculative elements to examine real-world problems.
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hello! Today I'm over in @publisherswkly.bsky.social talking about some reality-breaking short story collections: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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5 Short Story Collections Where Reality Is Broken
Megan Giddings recommends the fiction that inspired her genre-fluid collection, 'Black Arts,' which uses horror tropes, metafiction, and speculative elements to examine real-world problems.
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’d like to express my gratitude to phenomenal author @megiddings.bsky.social for her support of my essay collection, MY HUNGRY GHOSTS! I have been a big fan of Megan’s work since her haunting novel LAKEWOOD and am ecstatic about her new short story collection, BLACK ARTS: STORIES. Check it out!
"May-lee Chai has a poet's control of line and image and the essayist's ability to take complex people and situations and make it possible for readers to comfortably sit in nuance. A lovely,thoughtful book!”
-MEGAN GIDDINGS, AUTHOR OF BLACK ARTS: STORIES AND THE NOVEL LAKEWOOD, A DOUBLE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FINALIST
(Over yellow background with cover of MY HUNGRY GHOSTS in the lower left cover )LAKEWOOD
MEGAN GINDINGS
A Novel (text in red)
Cover image: a black woman’s face and hands emerging from a white background BLACK ARTS
stories
MEGAN GIDDINGS
AUTHOR OF MEET ME AT THE CROSSROADS
(Cover image: painting of a Black woman with her skin depicted in a bright blue hue, wrapped in a turquoise sheet, looking straight out at the viewer )“COMING 9/22/26” in red ink 
Over cover of MY HUNGRY GHOSTS
ESSAYS AND INCANTATIONS
BY MAY-LEE CHAI 
Cover image: lines of phases of the moon interspersed among title on a black background;
Whole image has a yellow background with wispy white clouds in the corners
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Black arts comes out on Tuesday! Here it is included in @reactorsff.bsky.social's September Books Round-Up: reactormag.com/new-sff-cros...
the write-up for Black Arts from Reactor's September books round-up" https://reactormag.com/new-sff-crossover-books-september-2026/:

Over the course of thirteen stories, we navigate complex family relationships, romances both troubled and charmed, and events that straddle the supernatural and the all-too-real. Among the disintegrating husbands, seductive ghosts, and artists communing with the supernatural to find their voices, Giddings establishes herself as a true investigator of modern yearning. Funny, poignant, exquisitely-rendered, and deeply moving, the stories in Black Arts further establish Megan Giddings as one of our most eagle-eyed and groundbreaking literary talents.
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hi everyone! A Powderhorn Park family needs our help. Elder Charro was kidnapped by ICE along with his coworkers while on their way to work on August 25. This will help with legal fees and other necessities. gofund.me/70537503e
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Donate to Help Elder Charro’s Family Through This difficult time, organized by monica moctezuma mendoza
Hola a todos. Él es Elder Charro, esposo de mi tía y padre … monica moctezuma mendoza needs your support for Help Elder Charro’s Family Through This difficult time
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Women Could Fly (2022) by me www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir | CBC News
B.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C.
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
hello! next week my short story collection, Black Arts, will finally come out. The audiobook is read by Brittany Bradford (a beautiful genius who was the narrator of Meet Me at the Crossroads) and Angel Pean (a beautiful genius who was the narrator of The Women Could Fly): libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Black Arts Audiobook on Libro.fm
Narrated by Brittany Bradford and Angel PeanThe very first story collection from the critically acclaimed, visionary author of the novels Lakewood, The Women Could Fly, and Meet Me at the CrossroadsOv...
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
hello! next week my short story collection, Black Arts, will finally come out. The audiobook is read by Brittany Bradford (a beautiful genius who was the narrator of Meet Me at the Crossroads) and Angel Pean (a beautiful genius who was the narrator of The Women Could Fly): libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Black Arts Audiobook on Libro.fm
Narrated by Brittany Bradford and Angel PeanThe very first story collection from the critically acclaimed, visionary author of the novels Lakewood, The Women Could Fly, and Meet Me at the CrossroadsOv...
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
can't wait to be in the time of my life where i pay for a past life regression and the only thing I want to talk about all the time is when I was like a border collie named georgie or an old lady named like Fern who was poisoned by her twin sister because they were grey gardensing too hard
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
shrek is a home owner, a self-starter, a caregiver, cooks, and has a sense of humor. He would clean up on Hinge! stop talking shit about a real one!!! I say shrekking when he is an eleven out of ten!
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I loved this book. It's formally inventive and emotionally thoughtful and I think May-lee is brilliant. Goodreads it or pre-order it: bookshop.org/p/books/my-h...
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My Hungry Ghosts: Essays and Incantations
In this collection of timely essays and incantations, award-winning author May-lee Chai explores the intersection of world history and her own--feeding herself and her ghosts in the process.Drawing up...
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
sharing not because I need reassurance but because it feels like it's a part of a lot of people's publishing lives that doesn't get talked about much: I always feel pretty down right before I have a book published. It's not about coverage/$$$/ awards, I just have a hard time letting go of my book
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Cherae @clclarkwrites.com · 23/08/2026
Today @sffaddictspod.bsky.social is hosting a live virtual launch for Fortune's Wake! Come hang with a few hotties (aka me and my friends) and we’ll answer questions, talk shop, talk ships, talk SHIPS, and anything else you wanna know! @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social
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🌊 FORTUNE'S WAKE 🌊 Launch Party Livestream with C.L. Clark & Friends
YouTube video by FanFiAddict
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the sentence of how the year is going so far: is there a bail fund for the person dressed as Spider Man who punched the nazi at city hall today?
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
didn't know how much my soul needed to see spurs spursing it up, didn't know how much i needed to hear "spurs are in TATTERS!!!" or to see de zerbi looking ready to walk into the sea on match day 1
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the closest i feel like i come to being in an ann patchett novel is my dental hygienist is an older woman who soothes me throughout my dental work by doing impressions of carnival workers from minnesota state fairs of years gone by
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thank you to the @newenglandreview.bsky.social for this shout out to my new book, MY HUNGRY GHOSTS! 🙏And what a great list of books by contributors ! Happy to be in this company 🎉🎉🎉🎉 nereview.com/august-26-re...
Covers of new books by NEW ENGLAND REVIEW contributors:
MY HUNGRY GHOST by May-lee Chai
DAYS & CHANCES by Joanna Klink
FREAK LIP by Julia Cohen
BEHOLD by Shara Mc CallumNEW ENGLAND
REVIEW
May-Lee Chai, My Hungry Ghosts:
Essays & Incantations (Blair) —
published most recently in NER 45.4
"A stunning collection that weaves together memoir, history, prayer, and intuition. May-lee Chai has a poet's control of line and image and the essayist's ability to take complex people and situations and make it possible for readers to comfortably sit in nuance." — Megan Giddings, author of Black Arts:
Stories
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UMN English @umnenglish.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Collaborating with @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social on a Sept 30 celebration of the short story! Three of our profs, all novelists, are publishing story collections this summer: Aamina Ahmad, @megiddings.bsky.social and Julie Schumacher will read and discuss short story craft. Free w/ registration:
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Short Story Summit
Professors Aamina Ahmad, Megan Giddings, and Julie Schumacher read from their new story collections.
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Three weeks! 🫠
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ciara, Sandra, and Paula are stars and it better be standing room only for this one
a screenshot of a confirmed AWP panel (chicago 2027) where three of my former students, Paula Molina Acosta, Ciara Alfaro, and Sandra Del Rio Madrigal will be presenting: Crisis Teaching: An Open Dialogue about Operation Metro Surge and Future Crises
Under crisis, we enter survival mode; what do we do when every semester is a crisis? Join a group of non-tenure-track, Latinx writers and instructors in reflecting on what it was like to teach undergraduates at the University of Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. From pandemics to federal occupations, it is time have a conversation about teaching creative writing under crisis. What does crisis teach us about what 'education' should be? How do we rise to the occasion?
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 18/08/2026
Minnesota doesn’t have an event to celebrate Black booksellers and authors, owner of Black Garnet Books Terresa Hardaway thought while attending a monthly Black Bookstore Coalition meeting. So she launched and curated the first Midwest Black Book Fair to honor stories of resistance and Blackness.
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Inaugural Midwest Black Book Fair will debut in north Minneapolis
Bookstores, publishers, authors and local organizations will be present for the fair. Tickets are free with registration.
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
let's all pool our money and move into the octagon on mount curve avenue: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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1203 Mount Curve Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403 | MLS #7107025 | Zillow
This 5447 square feet Single Family home has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It is located at 1203 Mount Curve Ave, Minneapolis, MN.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
📢 Book announcement on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 📢 Contributor @megiddings.bsky.social's short story collection BLACK ARTS will be published September 8th!! You can pre-order now 🙌 buff.ly/6QNbHbl
Book cover of Black Arts by Megan Giddings. A woman is covered by a blue sheet.
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Maybe I'll write an essay about this but I love the teaching and mentorship aspect of academia and, lol, the disrespect from students, from peers, from mentors, from colleagues of all races in positions of authority who want me to behave a certain way so "I can make it as a Black professor"
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.”
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
do i really want to discourse with you or am i just hungry
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hello Twin Cities, I'll post this closer to the event probably a million times but I'll be in conversation at Magers & Quinn on September 8th at 7 PM with my friend @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social: www.magersandquinn.com/event/Megan-...
an image from Magers & Quinn that advertises my event on September 8 2026 at 7 PM Central in conversation with Krys Malcolm Belc
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hello Twin Cities, I'll post this closer to the event probably a million times but I'll be in conversation at Magers & Quinn on September 8th at 7 PM with my friend @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social: www.magersandquinn.com/event/Megan-...
an image from Magers & Quinn that advertises my event on September 8 2026 at 7 PM Central in conversation with Krys Malcolm Belc
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"I hope this message finds you in a moment of luminous wonder, perhaps with a heart that understands the quiet power of stories that straddle the supernatural and the all-too-real, and the courage it takes to write with both depth and imagination" OR the bots know baby has a book coming soon
ignore the one story email above the six Squarespace Form Submission clearly bot sent messages i received just now
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
a black cat yawns on a white duvet. Inside the cat's mouth you can see her very long tongue and her black birthmark on the top of her pink mouth and very big fangs (she has an overbite!)
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
if you're in line to be a literary man, stay in line!!!!!!!!!!
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
me, a person who was born in michigan and so michigan at times still that i could be drinking moon mist out of a martini glass: the sickest burn a person could ever say is "Ohio charisma"
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Mara Abolish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Members of Unidos and the staff of Smitten Kitten are traveling to Germany to accept their peace prize. Unidos folks are much more buttoned up this is gonna be awesome. Anyway shop at Smitten Kitten to help those amazing staffers afford their trip! smittenkittenonline.com
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The Smitten Kitten
A trans-owned minneapolis-based adult store for EVERY.BODY. Bringing high quality adult toys and sex education to our community since 2003
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