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A writers’ community led by editors 🔥 Helping members connect and grow. Join us ➡️ litmatchcollective.com Discord: https://discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN

LMC Spotlight: Justin Gibson Pushcart Prize Winner! "Rasputin Loses Employee of the Month" published in The Pinch Journal
In this image, most of the following information is displayed on separate pieces of paper (or book covers) hung on a clothesline: Lit Match Collective Presents: Firelight Readaround: FAN FAVORITES EDITION Share a poem or excerpt by your favorite writers! Feat. special guest reader, Jinwoo Chong Sun, July 26 8-9 pm ET Open to everyone! #public-events in LMC's Discord
Writing the Return A Chat + Q&A with Jinwoo Chong July 21 7-8 pm ET Open to everyone in LMC's Discord #public-events Image includes Chong's book cover for "I Leave It Up To You," which has a dusty-rose solid-color background, and a top-down view drawing of a man using a giant chopstick to try and lift nigiri off a giant metal tray of sushi.
NOW THRU AUG 31 Lit Match Collective's SUMMER SALE! 60% OFF ALL PLANS! USE CODE LMC-SUMMER-26 Basic plan for $6/month Fancy plan for $50/month
Lit Match Collective's Guided Writing Studio Tues, July 14th 9am - 10am EST & Wed, July 15th 8pm - 9pm EST Ignite your writing with generative prompts Open to everyone!
Joseph Linscott is attending the Sewanee Writers’ Conference for fiction in July. Eleanor Ball will be in residence at Sundress Academy for the Arts. Eleanor also has some deliciously slimy fiction in Surely Magazine titled “The Sunset” and a CNF piece in Stonecoast Review titled “Sempre Libera.” Dr. Suvajeet Duttagupta published “The Garden of Unfinished Stories” in The Anthropocene Epic by Beyond the Stars Press.
Lit Match Collective Quarterly Pen Pal Swap Give & get feedback on WIPs via snail mail LMC members can sign up in #work-swap-n-share in our Discord Next sign up period: First week of Sept!
Lit Match Collective's FIRE IT UP FEEDBACK Want critique that uplifts your creative process from master editors, Steve Chang & Autumn Watts? HOW TO SIGN UP: - 1 LMC Credit = 1 draft submission - Subscribe to LMC's Fancy Tier to receive 1 credit per month - Now through Aug 31: Get up to 3 months of Fancy membership for $50/month with checkout code: LMC-SUMMER-26
Kick off summer with Lit Match Collective's FIRELIGHT READAROUND Sun, June 28 at 8-9 PM EST An online community reading series. Open to everyone! Come share your writing with us!
RAW & REAL Fish Girl Collective fka Sardine Can Collective - LMC associate Sam says: It wants it raw and wriiiggling! Submissions always open! Host Publications - Chapbooks! Radical writing by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, & immigrant voices!
How do short story collections differ from novels? A short story is often about an individual... ...whereas novels often focus more on community or more than one person. Stories also offer more compression.
SUMMER SALE! 1-on-1 feedback for $50! 60% off all plans! Use code: LMC-SUMMER-26
Lit Match Collective Presents: Guided Writing Studio Wed, June 10 9 am & 8 pm ET Generative writing sessions with fun form-oriented prompts Open to everyone!
6/01 @ 7 PM ET: Mentored Milestones Check-In 6/09 @ 7 PM: Chat + Q&A w/ Nina McConigley (open to everyone!) 6/10 @ 9 AM and 8 PM: Guided Writing Studio (open to everyone!) 6/12, 6/19, 6/26 @ 7 PM: Friday Happy Hours with Allison Field Bell (open to everyone!) 6/28 @ 8 PM: Firelight Readaround (open to everyone!)
Editor Steve will be a Waud Fellow at Ragdale Samantha Borek will be attending the Ollscoil na Gaillimhe for Irish Studies James Stobie was awarded a sticky pocket-dollar by a student for being “such a good teacher” Karen Karason and her daughter have begun researching their family history to fuel their work
LMC Presents: MFA-style Writing Workshops With Steve Chang, Okay Donkey + Autumn Watts, ex-Guernica 4 Sundays in July, 6 pm - 7:30 pm EST Capped at 4 writers Prose only (for now) All levels welcome!
Lit Match Collective's Firelight Readaround May 31, 8 PM EST Open to everyone! Share your writing amongst a supportive community! (Image is cartoon-style with three people gathered around a small campfire. The upper two-thirds of the image include a blue night sky with many stars, and low clouds.)
Unmothering: Myth, Mess, & Haunts A Masterclass w. Editor Autumn Watts May 24 @ 8PM ET
What people say about LMC's MFA-style Workshops: “I had this stockpile of half-baked story drafts I had accumulated through the years, all of which were stuck in revision purgatory. The MFA Workshop was a godsend: Not only was Steve’s feedback super thoughtful and helpful for getting the gears turning on what the stories needed, but it also served as scaffolding to help me build up my own internal editor.” - Justin Gibson
Revision Workshop Testimonial: The opportunity to workshop my piece with LMC came as a wonderful surprise. I'd never submitted any work anywhere. To have this time to hear from professionals about my work was a huge boost to my confidence. The actual suggestions that would improve my piece were spot on! Thank you LMC! - Susie Strange
In these generative prose writing sessions, Editor Autumn Watts leads cozy groups through fast, form-oriented prompts to get you shaking off the mental cobwebs and writing new pieces. All levels welcome. Free & Open to the Public through June!
*Open to everyone! 5/01 @ 7 PM ET - Mentored Milestones Check-In: Convert your writing goals into plans ft. milestones journals & trackers 5/12 @ 9 AM and 5/13 @ 8 PM - * Guided Writing Studio: Generative group writing sessions 5/24 @ 8 PM - * Craft Masterclass Unmothering with Autumn Watts: Generative craft workshop on writing "mothers" and unraveling the tropes & wounds that shape them 5/31 @ 8 PM - * Firelight Readaround: An online community reading series, now open to the public. Bring your friends!
"Lit Match Collective has been such a supportive place for me to learn and connect with other writers. The schedule of classes and events is robust. There are craft classes, generative writing sessions, author Q&As, revision workshops and more. Each and every time I come away inspired by what I've learned. Autumn's and Steve's feedback on drafts and custom lists have made all the difference in getting my first three pieces of short fiction published and I could not be more grateful to have access to their expertise." - Joy Manning
Turn those April Shower Goals into May Flower Plans with MENTORED MILESTONES Friday, May 1 @ 7PM ET
LIT MATCH COLLECTIVE Discord OPEN to everyone! Not a member yet? No problem! You can still hang with us!
LIT MATCH COLLECTIVE POETRY PROMPT #2: Choose a block of text & black out or erase words to create something new.
4/01 7 pm ET: Mentored Milestones Check-In. Convert your writing goals into plans ft. milestones journals & trackers 4/14 9 am ET and 4/15 8 pm ET: Guided Writing Studio. Generative group writing sessions, now available in the AM and PM. Open to everyone! 4/19 8 pm ET: Poetry Masterclass with Jane Wong. Generative craft workshop on the volta & "the ending after the ending." Open to everyone! 4/26 8 pm ET: Firelight Readaround, Poets+. An online community reading series-- share your poetry (+other genres welcome!) Open to everyone!
Poetry Prompt #1: Write a prose poem about one of the following: 1. An inherited truth, myth, or ghost story 2. An oncoming apocalypse 3. A “study” of something (whether that’s an inanimate object, a landscape, a pop culture moment, etc.)
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Joy published an interview with Chloe N. Clark, author of Every Galaxy A Circle David E has poems featured in In a Nutshell, underscore_magazine, and Stone Circle Review (and a poem coming out in Stanchion Magazine Issue 21) Eleanor Ball began Backlist Lit, a blog dedicated to reviewing independently published books after the release hype has died down
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Prompt 1: Of his novel Ulysses, James Joyce said, “I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book." Write a reconstruction of your own: Your childhood home, a memory, a feeling, a person. Prompt 2: You begin your day by spotting a magpie on your garden gate. What do you do, and how does the interaction with the bird affect your day, good or bad?
@litmatchcollective.com Lit Match Collective Presents FIRELIGHT READAROUND March 29th, 8 PM ET
REVISE WITH PURPOSE workshops on resolving common issues in drafts w/ your fave editors submit your work + 1 question! live edits! mini craft chats! Register for the Meet link! litmatchcollective.com
How to Write & Sell Your First Novel A chat with debut author, Tolani Akinola
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5 Things You Might Not Know About Finishing (and selling) Your First Novel Author Chat with Tolani Akinola Mar 15 at 12PM ET Event will take place in #treasure-chest channel in Discord @litmatchcollective.com
“The approximate six months I’ve been a part of Lit Match Collective have been my most productive for writing since attending college a decade ago, hands down. It’s incredible how much wind in your sails a bit of literary community can give you.” - Justin Gibson