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What's New at Lemon Grove

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RSVP for Author Talk + Co-Writing Sprint - Sept. 19th ​ Join us for a conversation with Brenda Miller about her newest book, the craft of creative nonfiction, and the writing life. Following the interview and audience Q&A, we'll transition into a one-hour co-writing sprint inspired by Brenda's work and the themes of Love You, Bye. ​ Sign Up ​ ​

Author Talk Recap ​ On July 18th, Lemon Grove Writers hosted an Author Talk with Kaitlyn Teer! Kaitlyn is the author of the fantastic new essay collection, Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the End of the World. Jessica Lohafer spoke with Kaitlyn about braided essays, revision, climate grief, publishing, book proposals, and sustaining a creative practice through uncertainty. Read the full recap for a reading list, prompts, and key takeaways. Read the Article ​ ​ ​

About LGW

We began in 2024 as a community built on joy, sustainability, and self-trust. Whether you're just starting out or returning to the page after years away, you're welcome here. Through free co-writing sessions, deep conversations on process, and shared insights on the writing life, we create space for writers to show up, connect, and cultivate a fruitful writing life. 🍋

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Jessica Lohafer lives in Washington. Her work has appeared in Ghost Parachute, The Sweet Tree Review, Drunk in the Midnight Choir, Nailed Magazine, and Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her collection of poetry, What’s Left to Be Done, was published by Radical Lunchbox Press in 2009. In 2020, she released the edited anthology, Allow the Light: The Lost Poems of Jack McCarthy. She has served as the Program Director for Poetry in Public Education, bringing writing workshops to schools throughout the Pacific Northwest, and previously hosted the Write Riot Poetry Slam. Jessica received her MFA in poetry from Western Washington University in 2014.

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Caitlin Morris is a writer, editor, and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University. She currently teaches writing and literature at Bellevue College and Highline College. Caitlin’s fiction has been featured in The Copperfield Review's historical fiction anthology, Halfway Down the Stairs, Jersey Devil Press, and Ghost Parachute. She is the cohost of the Hercule Poirot book club podcast, Poirot Pals.

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Megan Nichols Megan Nichols is the author of Animal Unfit (Belle Point Press, 2023). Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Plume, The Baltimore Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and other journals, and have been featured on Poetry Daily. Her prose has appeared in The Rumpus and Oxford American. She was a finalist for Write Bloody’s 2021 Jack McCarthy Book Prize and the 2024 Peseroff Poetry Prize, received Honorable Mention for the 2026 Gwenn A. Nusbaum Scholarship from the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, and was named a Spring 2022 Brooklyn Poets Fellow.

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