Lauren D. Woods
@ladiwoods.bsky.social
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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Pub day for The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods (@ladiwoods.bsky.social)!
So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖
#shortstory #fiction #indiepress
So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖
#shortstory #fiction #indiepress
Thank you @autumnhousepress.bsky.social!
The great thing about sadly unsubscribing from @washingtonpost.com since their editorial page went bonkers is rediscovering Libby and regularly reading @newyorker.com for free and getting great stories and long form content instead of scrolling.
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The great thing about sadly unsubscribing from @washingtonpost.com since their editorial page went bonkers is rediscovering Libby and regularly reading @newyorker.com for free and getting great stories and long form content instead of scrolling.
Had no idea I followed so many midwesterners but hell yeah, thanks for those sky pics!
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Had no idea I followed so many midwesterners but hell yeah, thanks for those sky pics!
Reposted by Lauren D. Woods
Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST.
Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST.
Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Grateful to my old college paper at UT for an interview about my short story collection! Always great to visit Austin & speak with students.
Q&A: Author, alumna Lauren Woods talks new book ‘The Great Grown-up Game of Make-Believe’
Winning the Autumn House Press 2024 Fiction Prize enabled alumna Lauren Woods to release her debut book, “The Great Grown-up Game of Make-Believe,” on Oct. 21. With girlhood as the unifying theme, the...
thedailytexan.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Grateful to my old college paper at UT for an interview about my short story collection! Always great to visit Austin & speak with students.
Reposted by Lauren D. Woods
Imagine dedicating your life to art—writing, painting, composing, whatever—and then you get online and some pro AI asshole is like, “If you hate AI you hate art.” Just…no. Shut the fuck up and go sit on a cactus.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Imagine dedicating your life to art—writing, painting, composing, whatever—and then you get online and some pro AI asshole is like, “If you hate AI you hate art.” Just…no. Shut the fuck up and go sit on a cactus.
Things that made me smile this week: Older woman approaches my 11 year old at grocery store yesterday, eyes her T-shirt. “Do you actually listen to the Velvet Underground?”
Her: Yeah, sometimes
Woman: Hell yeah! Rock on.
*proud mom
Her: Yeah, sometimes
Woman: Hell yeah! Rock on.
*proud mom
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Things that made me smile this week: Older woman approaches my 11 year old at grocery store yesterday, eyes her T-shirt. “Do you actually listen to the Velvet Underground?”
Her: Yeah, sometimes
Woman: Hell yeah! Rock on.
*proud mom
Her: Yeah, sometimes
Woman: Hell yeah! Rock on.
*proud mom
Several hours of very intensive parenting is a great recipe for losing all executive function by bedtime.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Several hours of very intensive parenting is a great recipe for losing all executive function by bedtime.
Come out to @thewriterscenter.bsky.social Thursday next week in Bethesda to chat with @tomnavratil.bsky.social, Dine Watson, Elizabeth Bruce, and me to talk about unique paths to books and nurturing a writing life that works for you. writer.org/event/carvin...
Carving Out a Literary Life: Four Authors on Their Nontraditional Journeys to Publication - The Writer's Center
The Writer’s Center welcomes four recently-published DC-area authors to discuss the inspirations, obstacles, and lessons gleaned on their writing journeys. Each of them has engaged with The Writer’s C...
writer.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Come out to @thewriterscenter.bsky.social Thursday next week in Bethesda to chat with @tomnavratil.bsky.social, Dine Watson, Elizabeth Bruce, and me to talk about unique paths to books and nurturing a writing life that works for you. writer.org/event/carvin...
Made a real mistake listening to 6 hours of Willie Nelson while road tripping through TX, it’s taking a few days to get that man’s voice out of my brain now. Gotta counter it with something v different.
November 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Made a real mistake listening to 6 hours of Willie Nelson while road tripping through TX, it’s taking a few days to get that man’s voice out of my brain now. Gotta counter it with something v different.
Really missing this old place. Feels good to be back, if only for a visit.
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Really missing this old place. Feels good to be back, if only for a visit.
Visiting family, staying in my old childhood bedroom in Texas. Pitch black morning, the familiar and comforting morning sound of a train honking in the distance. Making coffee, missing the dear sounds of childhood.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Visiting family, staying in my old childhood bedroom in Texas. Pitch black morning, the familiar and comforting morning sound of a train honking in the distance. Making coffee, missing the dear sounds of childhood.
Looking forward to this Dallas event with @misternagel.bsky.social! Then off to Austin. Hope to see & meet other readers & writers while I’m in town!
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Looking forward to this Dallas event with @misternagel.bsky.social! Then off to Austin. Hope to see & meet other readers & writers while I’m in town!
New bookstore cafe outside my office in crystal city area 😍
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New bookstore cafe outside my office in crystal city area 😍
Sometimes kids are complicated, prickly little beings, and as a low-conflict person who dreads kid complications bleeding into adult interactions with friends and teachers, I am emotionally exhausted. I can’t smooth everything over, it’s messy & hard being responsible for others you don’t control.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Sometimes kids are complicated, prickly little beings, and as a low-conflict person who dreads kid complications bleeding into adult interactions with friends and teachers, I am emotionally exhausted. I can’t smooth everything over, it’s messy & hard being responsible for others you don’t control.
Okay, now @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com both have op-eds defending the ballroom? What in the soul crushingly alternate universe is going on here? When I saw the East Wing destruction, I felt the way I did when I saw the Notre Dame burning
October 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Okay, now @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com both have op-eds defending the ballroom? What in the soul crushingly alternate universe is going on here? When I saw the East Wing destruction, I felt the way I did when I saw the Notre Dame burning
Reporting from the front lines of an 8-yo boys birthday party to report that 6 7 is very much still the thing. If I don’t make it out of here alive…
October 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Reporting from the front lines of an 8-yo boys birthday party to report that 6 7 is very much still the thing. If I don’t make it out of here alive…
Thank you to everyone who came out to Kramers! I have another event with the wonderful Steph Liberatore tomorrow at 1. Watch out for Marine Corps Marathon road closures or consider taking the metro to Potomac Yard!
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Thank you to everyone who came out to Kramers! I have another event with the wonderful Steph Liberatore tomorrow at 1. Watch out for Marine Corps Marathon road closures or consider taking the metro to Potomac Yard!
Just donated to the @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social fundraising campaign. Rachel and Courtney & team do such important work for this community, and have introduced me to wonderful books and writers. Every bit helps.
October 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Just donated to the @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social fundraising campaign. Rachel and Courtney & team do such important work for this community, and have introduced me to wonderful books and writers. Every bit helps.
Woohoo @litbox.bsky.social had a 4 book sales day! Anything more than 1-2 a day is great for these tough economic times! I sold 2 @joeyhedger.bsky.social books and 2 Zak Salih. 🎉
October 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Woohoo @litbox.bsky.social had a 4 book sales day! Anything more than 1-2 a day is great for these tough economic times! I sold 2 @joeyhedger.bsky.social books and 2 Zak Salih. 🎉
We have reached the stage for broken heart emoji becoming one of my most frequent. It used to be the laugh cry.
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We have reached the stage for broken heart emoji becoming one of my most frequent. It used to be the laugh cry.
Thank you @autumnhousepress.bsky.social!
Pub day for The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods (@ladiwoods.bsky.social)!
So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖
#shortstory #fiction #indiepress
So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖
#shortstory #fiction #indiepress
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thank you @autumnhousepress.bsky.social!
Terrorized by the to do list. A memoir in list form.
October 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Terrorized by the to do list. A memoir in list form.
Wow, thank you @emhall47.bsky.social @necessaryfiction.com for the deep and careful reading and review! Also rare that a reviewer’s favorite story is also mine.
THE GREAT GROWN-UP GAME OF MAKE-BELIEVE by Lauren D. Woods (@autumnhousepress.bsky.social). Reviewed by @emhall47.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...
October 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Wow, thank you @emhall47.bsky.social @necessaryfiction.com for the deep and careful reading and review! Also rare that a reviewer’s favorite story is also mine.
Trying to do a great job at work, plan an 8 year old’s birthday party and launch a book all this week while @andrewbertaina.bsky.social juggles his own crazy schedule. Excited & grateful but also 😬😬
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trying to do a great job at work, plan an 8 year old’s birthday party and launch a book all this week while @andrewbertaina.bsky.social juggles his own crazy schedule. Excited & grateful but also 😬😬
Reposted by Lauren D. Woods
So happy to see @ladiwoods.bsky.social and her Lit Box platformed on @npr.org today! DC Lit is mighty indeed. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...
A book vending machine provides an outlet for D.C.-area authors after funding cuts
Washington, D.C.'s vending machine LitBox distributes books, with a serving of hope as local writers struggle with arts funding cuts.
www.npr.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
So happy to see @ladiwoods.bsky.social and her Lit Box platformed on @npr.org today! DC Lit is mighty indeed. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...