I opened the stage at Burning Man 2016 with this story. The crowd there liked it, and I hope you do too. It started off as a joke. People used […]
Meg Elison
Cover Reveal!
To be fair, I loved the original cover for Midwife. My first publisher, Sybaritic Press, let me design it myself and my good friend Devin Cooper shot the photograph and […]
Reimagining Film Futures
Image: Devin Cooper One of the best things about living in the Bay Area is that people who make different kinds of art often get the chance to make […]
Wiscon 40
I’m at Wiscon! For those of you who don’t know, Wiscon is a yearly feminist science fiction convention. I’m enjoying Madison very much. I went out for cheese curds and […]
S E Q U E L
There are things you think will make you a REAL WRITER. And then they happen, and you're still just you. I'm real. You're real. Write. — Meg Elison (@megelison) February […]
Starhawk’s of City of Refuge: the Fading Magic of Nostalgia
This year, Starhawk’s “City of Refuge” was the gift I bought myself. I backed the Kickstarter and couldn’t wait for it to show up. Getting the third book in this […]
Guest post: Ten Principles in Search of a Story
Meg’s note: This post was written by my husband, John Elison, who has no blog of his own. He likes to tell long stories, and I like to hear them. […]
9 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Burning Man
I’ve spent a lot of words here trying to define an experience that is ultimately indefinable. It’s something different for everyone, and you will likely have different wishes after your first burn.
It was the best and worst vacation I’ve ever had.
LA Review of Books Raves about TBOTUM
From the front page of the L.A. Review of Books: “In 2015, Elison’s novel won the Philip K. Dick Award, in part because it offers an equally compelling — although […]