Portfolio


Novels and Collections:

Here in the Dark: Stories (Shotgun Honey, July 2023)
Songbirds and Stray Dogs (Main Street Rag Press, 2019)

Short Stories and Essays:
“Southern Comfort,”
 Bull Magazine Anthology, Edited by Benjamin Drevlow, Forthcoming Summer 2024
“They Light Themselves on Fire,” Starlite Pulp Review 4, Edited by Brian Townsend, Forthcoming Summer 2024
Black Snakes,” Bishop Rider Anthology, Edited by Beau Johnson, Forthcoming Summer 2024
“Goddamn Barbara,” Revolution John, April 2024
“Yarns: On Making Perfectionism Work for You,” Reckon Review, March 20, 2024
“Quilt Club,” Women Speak: The Women of Appalachia Project, Ed. by Kari Gunter Seymour, February 2024
“We Have a Wolf,” Shotgun Honey Presents 5: Thicker Than Water, Ed. by Ron Earl Phillips, Shotgun Honey, August 2023
“The Stillness at the Bottom,” Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 10, May 2023
“Big Bob’s Donuts at 3am,” Dark Yonder, Issue 2, March 2023
“And Then the Forest will Burn Down,” Passengers Journal, September 2022
“Picking the Carcass,” Jacked: A Crime Anthology, Ed. by Vern Smith, July 2022
“Glass Houses,” Change Seven Magazine, April 2022
“Sitting Ducks,” BULL Magazine, February 2022
“Nephilim,” If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: An Anthology, Ed. by Hannah Grieco, Feb 2022
“The Monster Beneath,” It Came From the Swamp: An Anthology, Ed. by Joey Poole, Feb 2022
“The Only Comfort,” Pithead Chapel, November 2021
“Buttons,”
Cowboy Jamboree, May 2021
“Frogs in a Pot,Storgy Magazine, January 2021
“It Could Always Be Like This,” Emerge Literary Journal, July 2020
“Good Heart,” JMWW Journal, February 2020
“If My Book,” MonkeyBicycle, August 2019
Songbirds and Stray Dogs “Chapter 2,” Blue Mountain Review, Issue 14, April 2019
“Grace and Mercy,” The Rhapsodist, April 2019
“Voluntary Action,” Still: The Journal, Issue 28, Fall 2018
“Stains,” Barren Magazine, Issue 2, September 2018
“Southern Comfort,” Attic Door Press, Issue 3, September 2018
Songbirds and Stray Dogs “Chapter 1,” Embark Literary Journal, Issue 5, July 2018
“Hell or High Water,” The New Southern Fugitives, Issue 22, April 2018.
“Daisy Mae Returns,” Teach. Write. Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2018, pp.43-5.
“Getting Past the Gate,” The Same Literary Journal, February 2018
“A Crisis Of,” Beneath the Rainbow, February 2018
“Getting Past the Gate,” Raising Her Voice: An Anthology of Women Writers, January 2018
“What She Lost,” The Penman Review, December 2017
“Kittens,” Santa Fe Writers Project, Issue 11, Fall 2017
“Cola Colored Bubbles,” Four Ties Literary Review, August 2017
“Thieves”, Beneath the Rainbow, July 2017
“Kittens,” Winner, 2017 Scythe Prize for Fiction, July 11, 2017
“Scotch Tape, Super Glue and Hope,” Dime Show Review, Volume 2, Issue 1, February 2017
“Blood and Snow,” BLYNKT Lit Mag, Issue 1, October 2016
“Scotch Tape, Super Glue and Hope,” Dime Show Review, August 2016
“Porch Light Salvation,” The City Quill, Issue 1, May 2016 (Print)

Interviews:
“Punk Noir Interview with Meagan Lucas,” Punk Noir Magazine, March 2024
Now Appalachia with Eliot Parker, August 2023
“Tired of Hiding the Ugly” – CrimeReads,by Steph Post, July 2023
The Softer Side of Appalachia – Bold Life Magazine, August 2022
Flat Rock Together – July 2022
Lit Out Loud Podcast @ Robert Morris University – June 2022 Show 1 Show 2 Show 3
Charlotte Reader Podcast – July 2020
Now, Appalachia – July 2020
Bull Magazine – February, 2020
A Thin Slice of Anxiety – January 1, 2020
Varied Traumas Stoked Fire to Write – BPR News, December 2, 2019
Poet Kind Podcast, Season 3, Episode 9, November 2019
Steph Post: Author Spotlight – Meagan Lucas, August 30, 2019
Interview with Songbirds and Stray Dogs Author Meagan Lucas, Parhelion Magazine, August 28, 2019
Meagan Lucas on Naked Non-Fiction, Butter Tarts, and her Debut Novel – The Writing Desk, Aug 5, 2019

Media:
Art in the Time of Chaos – Panel, Good Hart Artist Residency, March 2024
PaperCuts Podcast with Brian Panowich, February 2024
Recording of Tombolo Books In-Conversation with Steph Post, Sept. 2023
Recording of Malaprop’s Book Launch with Nathan Ballingrud, August 2023
Recording of my “Fighting Shape” Revision lecture for RetreatWest, 9/17/2022
Recording of the 2022 NC Route 1 Reads Event with Ron Rash Discussing Songbirds & Stray Dogs
2022 NC Route 1 Reads Selection Announcement Press Release
Varied Traumas Stoked Fire to Write in Emerging Hendersonville Author,” BPR News, December 2, 2019
Literary Hour Finale, Writers Circle Around the Table Blog, November 22, 2019
Recording September 15th appearance on “Wordplay Radio” on 103.3 Asheville FM with Jeff Davis and Lockie Hunter
“From the Edges of Noir” Article in Bold Life Magazine, July 2019
Recording of June 2019 appearance on “Writers in the Round with Richard Winham” of WUTC, Chattanooga
Video of me reading “Grace and Mercy” at the Rhapsodist Reading, AB Tech, April 2019.
Article about me being nominated for a Pushcart

Contests:
Songbirds and Stray Dogs – Winner – 2020 Indie Book Awards, Debut Novel
Songbirds and Stray Dogs – Finalist – 2020 Indie Book Awards, General Fiction
“Voluntary Action” Nominated by Still: The Journal for a Pushcart Prize
“Voluntary Action” – Judge’s Choice Finalist, chosen by Wiley Cash, Still: The Journal 2018 Fiction Competition
“What She Lost” – Second Place, SNHU Fall Fiction Competition, December 2017
“Thieves” – Quarterly Winner, Beneath the Rainbow, November 2017
“Kittens” – Winner, 2017 Scythe Prize for Fiction, July 2017