I'm over the moon to share this great guide to my books from Early Bird Books: "4 Compelling and Powerful Sam Meekings Books - You may have just found your new favorite author." So nice to see all my books sitting together in one place! earlybirdbooks.com/sam-meekings-b…

Last night I hosted a session on 'Neurodivergence vs Ableism Inside and Outside the Academy' as part of a series of seminars on Creative Writing and ND run by The Open University - a thought-provoking discussions on ableism in the writing world ies.sas.ac.uk/events/neurodi…

It's here and it's actually pretty good! 'A Machine-Shape Hand', the story from OpenAI's new creative writing model, is better than I assumed it would be and quite moving. Of course, that doesn't negate the issue of how they trained it on copyrighted data theguardian.com/books/2025/mar…

I've just started a Substack, where each week I'll be talking about writing through grief, loss and heartbreak. It would mean a lot to me if you checked it out - and considered subscribing! sammeekings.substack.com/p/why-write-th…

Ever said 'I'd my own worst enemy'? My latest substack is about how the words we use to describe ourselves affect the way we interact with the world around us: Talking to Yourself open.substack.com/pub/sammeeking…

My latest Substack post: sammeekings.substack.com/p/the-black-os…

My latest substack: how to get started at writing through loss or heartbreak open.substack.com/pub/sammeeking…

Check out my new Substack post - asking whether you’d rather be a rat or a flea, and examining how we use ideas, debates and philosophical arguments to make sense of our own lives sammeekings.substack.com/p/disappearing…

My substack this week is on how to get back into the right headspace when you're feeling out of it: substack.com/home/post/p-16…

With the support of a Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Global Collaboration Grant, Northwestern Qatar's Sam Meekings and Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine's Catherine Belling convened scholars, filmmakers & practitioners to examine how storytelling can shape trauma processing & recovery. Learn about the work presented &

My latest stack is a writing guide for anyone wanting a quick prompt or challenge: sammeekings.substack.com/p/how-to-pract…

A shining example of collaboration across Northwestern campuses co-led by my Northwestern Qatar colleague Sam Meekings , contributing original knowledge on an important topic that resonates across disciplines. #NUQProud

This week's stack: a reflection and a short prompt for using writing to return to the world of childhood sammeekings.substack.com/p/digging-for-…

My latest stack - on writing into memory and imagination sammeekings.substack.com/p/figments-of-…

This week's substack is about transformations, the mythical creatures that fill the Aberdeen Bestiary and how the book survived eight centuries, and looking back in order to keep moving forwards substack.com/home/post/p-16…

This week's stack about getting stuck in the past sammeekings.substack.com/p/memory-like-…