Writings for Winter

I'm so thrilled to share the cover of the first akinoga press book for 2025, my new chapbook A Violet Stretch of Sky! Thank you so much to this wonderful press for the care with which they handled this collection.

Preorders are now available at a discount. :) A Violet Stretch of Sky will officially be released on Saturday, May 31st.

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A Violet Stretch of Sky is inspired by poet Meggie Royer’s fascination with folklore, mythology, and the experience of processing traumatic memories. In this collection, Royer imagines beloved artistic and literary figures such as Virginia Woolf and van Gogh in conversation with women of myth, examines the complex nature of relationships marred by love and violence, and attempts to reconcile her teenage self with her adult self.

Much love as always n.r. :) Truly

i am a little tipsy and a little sappy but i've noticed over the years i have a very large number of trans and nonbinary readers/followers and i just want to say i really love you all and if there's ever anything i can do from my end/platform to support you or boost your writing or anything such, please let me know, esp as we see an alarming, catastrophic surge in anti-2slgbtqia+ policies, rhetoric, and violence in the US <3

Hi friend! Thank you so much for this; this means a lot :)

The scoping review in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse is unfortunately not currently open access and I don't believe it will be, and we are prohibited as authors from sharing full PDF versions with others (there also isn't a pre-print), so I'm afraid that one I can't share.

The BMC Public Health article is open access though! :) Here's the link to read that article.

If for whatever reason the scoping review ever does become open access, I'll circle back here to share the link!

What a wild decade it's been. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has read and loved this poem.

your girl is now a two-time author of published scholarly research articles!!!!

Thank you so much, n.r.! As always, I appreciate you.

Good luck with whatever you choose in terms of the autism diagnosis <3

yesterday my therapist asked me what my goals are for the future and my inability to formulate hardly any hit me like a slap in the face. i was hit with this massive wave of realization that other than possibly going back to school for a PhD, i don't have any. and i haven't had any in a long time.

i remember being 19 in college and sobbing to my then-boyfriend, who had raped me by that point, that i didn't see making it to 20. i did, obviously, and have lived a decade beyond that. but it doesn't really feel like i've actually lived.

my therapist's question came in the middle of us discussing that i probably need to go back on antidepressants. i feel flat, grey, all the time. anhedonia. i can feel joy but it feels muted, like i'm feeling what joy seems like rather than what it actually is. these are feelings i've struggled with since i was 19.

i remember feeling real, genuine joy so frequently before i was raped. it was a hallmark of my life and i was so privileged to feel it all the time. it's devastating to really look at your life and realize you haven't felt that consistently for a decade. and to realize that you've been so deeply mired in trauma from the past that the idea of looking forward beyond the next month is so inconceivable.

i'm tired of not being happy. i'm tired of this thing, this trauma from being raped and from being so traumatized by being traumatized, that spills over and into every crack of my life like water. it feels like there is no part of my life that is untouched.

i want a full, sincere, brilliant life filled with meaning, and purpose, and contentment and true happiness. after we talked about me not having future goals, my therapist asked if i felt a purpose in life, or if life felt meaningful. i said no. no to both. not in a "i want to kill myself" type of way, but in a "what's really the point of all this" type of way.

i know i owe it to myself to try to get better. i think medication is something i probably really need again. because i am seriously fooling myself if i think i'm really "recovered" from what's happened to me.

!!!! This message is so sweet and genuinely made my week!

Thank you so much for the bit of brightness today! I don't use tumblr anywhere near as much as I used to, and I barely follow people anymore, so whoever you are, I clearly loved your blog!! I've probably liked several posts from it already lol.

I really appreciate your kind words, and am really grateful that you've followed and supported my work for so long. It means more than you know!

Thank you again for the heartwarming message, and I hope you have a lovely day and week as well, my friend :) <3

(sorry to spiral on main)