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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚

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Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. #authorsguild #AWP26 https://lawrencecoates.com/

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · Sep 10

“This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, Patience.”
Herman Melville

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks. Ursula Le Guin blurbed my second book, and I’m still grateful.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 12h

I’m across the pond… I wonder if the exhibition is going to travel.

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 13h

Congrats!

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 14h

So the exhibition is in London?

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Ann!

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 1d

#writingcommunity

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Authors, start your engines!

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 1d

Very happy to have new work forthcoming in @fabulistmag.bsky.social . I’ll post again when my ogre story is up. But here’s a link to my Pushcart-nominated story from 2020. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙📚💙

The Age of the Cuttlefish > The Fabulist Words & Art

This sly, wry, surreal, and vaguely Lovecraftian parable is an apt season closer for the apocalyptic summer of 2020, and an unnerving point of entry for the even more uncertain autumn that's still ahead.

fabulistmagazine.com

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 2d

Good news … very happy for you, from one professor to another.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 2d

Concepts of a plan.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 2d

Great! I’ll look forward to it.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 2d

Lol

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 2d

And prosperity is right around the corner.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 3d

Climate Fiction Prize open! #booksky #writingcommunity 💙📚💙🖋️💙

2026 Prize judging panel announced as submissions open - The Climate Fiction Prize

The Climate Fiction Prize will support societies to fully grasp the climate change threat and to embrace its solutions through great stories.

climatefictionprize.co.uk

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 3d

True… pretty skilled, though.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 3d

Edward Scissorhands? Where does he rank?

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 3d

#booksky

River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Bookshop has free shipping today! Find River River Book titles there 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky

Our Poetry Catalog

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 3d

Kristi Noem shot hers.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 4d

I finished grading papers on Moll Flanders, and now I’m a little sad to say goodbye. #booksky 💙 📚💙

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: 9780140433135 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

‘I grew as impudent a Thief, and as dexterous as ever Moll Cut-Purse was’Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life. She duly embarks on...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 4d

Writers learn to apply ass to chair. #writingcommunity

Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 4d

Look: sometimes you’re inspired and sometimes you aren’t. You sit down and work, regardless. You build skill this way; you develop and refine your technique.

Habit is more dependable than inspiration.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 4d

I was just about to ask about the connection with the fairy tale.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 4d

And you ate the plate as well!

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sure the author was something soulless.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations!

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 6d

I had forgotten that The Song of the Lark was in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 6d

For my Willa Cather-loving pals. #booksky

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