Meg Charlton

Meg Charlton
Born
Meg Charlton

United States
EducationBrooklyn College (MFA)
OccupationWriter
Writing career
Period2014–present
Genres
Websitemegcharlton.com

Meg Charlton is an American writer based in New York City. She has published a literary science fiction novel and her articles and short stories have appeared in several of publications, including The Yale Review, Slate and Vice. Charlton has a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Brooklyn College,

Biography

Charlton began her career in televison and film, screenwriting and producing documentaries. She said, "I sort of always knew I wanted to be a writer, and yet I thought I would have more interesting things to write about if I studied other things and tried other jobs." She tried her hand at sitcoms and comedy before moving to Vice, where she worked in journalism, film and video production. She wrote articles and short stories that appeared in several of publications, including The Yale Review, Slate, Vice, and an anthology, Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. The rights to adapt some of her short fiction for television and film have been acquired by 3 Arts Entertainment and SB Films. Charlton also wrote a young adult novel, which she described as "a darker Gossip Girl meets a more grounded Heroes", but attempts to get it published failed.

Then, while attending a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Charlton decided to apply for a Master of Fine Arts in fiction at Brooklyn College, and was accepted. She graduated in 2021,[better source needed] also winning the college's Creative Writing Award. Charlton stated:

"That was when I started to take writing more seriously. I had written bad screenplays, a bad novel, and a couple of short stories that got published. But it was in the MFA that I made writing the center of my life and really focused on it in a new way."

In 2021, Charlton began work on what became her debut novel, Voyagers, about the suspected abduction of two six-year-old children by aliens. She said she was inspired by listening to people's experiences at a 2016 UFO convention at Roswell she attended while on assignment for Vice News. Charlton had expressed relief that her first attempt at a novel was never published, but added that parts of it ended up in Voyagers.

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

References

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  2. 1 2 Dumpleton, Elise (June 13, 2026). "Q&A: Meg Charlton, Author of 'Voyagers'". The Nerd Daily. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
  3. 1 2 Masad, Ilana (July 30, 2026). "Meg Charlton by Ilana Masad". Bomb. New York City. ISSN 0743-3204. Retrieved September 24, 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Vitcavage, Adam (June 17, 2026). "Meg Charlton on Shared Realities, Alien Encounters, and the Making of Voyagers". Substack. Retrieved October 15, 2026.
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  6. 1 2 3 "TRAVELERS of Meg Charlton". Agence Litteraire Eliane Benisti. September 18, 2024. Retrieved October 9, 2026.
  7. ↑ "See the cover for Voyagers by Meg Charlton". Debutiful. January 7, 2026. Retrieved October 4, 2026.
  8. 1 2 Charlton, Meg (June 17, 2026). "Signing on a Partial Manuscript: My Untraditional Route to Landing a Literary Agent (and Book Deal)". Writer's Digest. Cincinnati, Ohio. ISSN 0043-9525. Retrieved October 4, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Meg Charlton". LinkedIn. Retrieved October 15, 2026.