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Lauren D. Woods

@ladiwoods.bsky.social

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Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize), short stories, coming Oct 2025. DC based. laurendwoods.com

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 16d

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you!

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 8h

Thrilled to be included on this list of finalists!

Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Ed! It’s in December. I think we’re in great hands.

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking a lot about my 7-year-old’s upcoming surgery and so incredibly grateful for insurance, without which it would be unaffordable, and also thinking about some of my fellow Americans who have been bankrupted in similar circumstances and how it doesn’t have to be like this.

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a real sign when the columnists you really liked all head for the exits. And this is what’s left. 😑

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 4d

Think we’re ready for Halloween around here!

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 4d

Chills, right? I don’t know if I’ve ever seen another show that handled the villain side so deeply or well. Making the empire a complicated but evil bureaucracy was such a good move. And the rebels were right grand scale but have their own villains too. What a show!

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 5d

Forecast today is very very grumpy. No way around it. May as well embrace it and listen to some sad music. (Cue feeling of being spread too thin and doing a bad job working/parenting + some gratuitous self-pity in there too.)

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 6d

:) thanks June!

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to have a story out with Cutleaf Journal from my collection cutleafjournal.com/content/nine...

Nine Hundred Miles To Tampa - Cutleaf Journal

When the phone lights up again, Kevin takes in a breath and answers. “My name is Kevin Dwyer. How may I service you?” Hannah, on her own call at the next desk

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 7d

!! Amazing

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 7d

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 7d

DC metro creepily empty at what’s supposed to be rush hour.

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 7d

Please for the love bring back emails. The WhatsApp school parents groups are out of control and cannot police themselves.

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shortstorytoday.bsky.social @shortstorytoday.bsky.social · 9d

We continue Season 5 in October with three more extraordinary writers! David Haynes, Lauren D. Woods and Michael Hopkins bring their unique voices to the the short story form with their debut collections. www.shortstorytoday.com

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks June! 😊 it was very fun to do.

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 10d

Wishing that were my afternoon walk. And hooray for the stories!

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 11d

Came home today to find @andrewbertaina.bsky.social triple screening 3 different football games on 3 screens. Am going to slowly back my way out of here.

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Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 12d

A painting that reminded me of this poem by Annie Nazzaro in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social, "After The Poet's Garden by Vincent van Gogh, 1888"

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After The Poet’s Garden by Vincent van Gogh, 1888
by Annie Nazzaro

A summer night on the verge of seizure. The only story I know how to tell right now. The light shining strange and yellow on leaves that haven’t ever been this green. The same things that’ve always happened here. The wanting and the leaving, the grass bending in their wake. How a tree looks just before it topples, thrashing ahead of a crack. A paralyzing quiet, an unbearable heat. What I’ve been waiting for and what I would do anything to stop if there was anything that would stop it. The horizon line, obscured by foliage. Until the wind takes everything it’s going to take.

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Greg Fields @gregfieldsauthor.bsky.social · 13d

William Faulkner (1897-1962) From his Nobel acceptance speech:

"It is the poet's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart...The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 13d

Yay congrats!!

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 14d

You're a writer? What do you write?
Emails, mostly.

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 14d

You got me, I am greedy and only value money. That is why I got into the book business!

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 15d

Okay, but today when I was restocking, I stood behind a young woman who bought 10 books in a row. 🥹 My largest sale ever. I am certain there is a beautiful, cushion-filled reading nook awaiting her in heaven.

Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 15d

💯!! The number of friends and neighbors who are leaving!