Laurie Ann Doyle
@ladoyleauthor.bsky.social
Author of LIGHT AND ASH (forthcoming novel, Sibylline Press) & WORLD GONE MISSING: STORIES (Regal House). Nominee, 2025 Pushcart Prize. Words in McSweeny's, Alta, The Rumpus, LA Review. www.laurieanndoyle.com
Our last swim of 2025 -- on the most gorgeously long beach in Santa Cruz!
November 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Our last swim of 2025 -- on the most gorgeously long beach in Santa Cruz!
💥Had an amazing time this weekend at Tahoe Literary Festival! I met so many great writers, including my fellow authors at @sibyllinepress.bsky.social: Julia Park Tracey, Kim Culbertson & Karen Nelson! 💖💖
October 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
💥Had an amazing time this weekend at Tahoe Literary Festival! I met so many great writers, including my fellow authors at @sibyllinepress.bsky.social: Julia Park Tracey, Kim Culbertson & Karen Nelson! 💖💖
💥People always ask me how I got started as a #writer & what it's been like since. This interview in Bold Journey magazine shares my story--as well as my thoughts on the #creative process.🌀
#writing #story #books #creativity
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#writing #story #books #creativity
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August 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
💥People always ask me how I got started as a #writer & what it's been like since. This interview in Bold Journey magazine shares my story--as well as my thoughts on the #creative process.🌀
#writing #story #books #creativity
boldjourney.com/meet-laurie-...
#writing #story #books #creativity
boldjourney.com/meet-laurie-...
🔥These words from Anton Chekhov ring 1000 times true every time I read them: "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." #writerlife #writer #writing
June 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🔥These words from Anton Chekhov ring 1000 times true every time I read them: "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." #writerlife #writer #writing
🔥 It was wonderful to hit the streets last Saturday to protest Trump's cruelty. We saw many signs like this one! ❤️
#writers #NoKings #protest #indivisible
#writers #NoKings #protest #indivisible
June 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🔥 It was wonderful to hit the streets last Saturday to protest Trump's cruelty. We saw many signs like this one! ❤️
#writers #NoKings #protest #indivisible
#writers #NoKings #protest #indivisible
I'm thrilled to be introducing poet & playwright Paul S. Flores TOMORROW 6/14 at Babylon Salon. Pls join us at The Sycamore in the Mission at 5:30pm. As always, free! www.babylonsalon.com
#writing #books #reading
#writing #books #reading
🌀What do we do when life throws us curveballs? Artist & poet Paul S. Flores explores this question in his book WE STILL BE.
Listen to this gorgeous clip of Paul reading his work, then get excited to hear him perform at Babylon this Sat, Jun 14 @The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free! www.babylonsalon.com 🍻📚
Listen to this gorgeous clip of Paul reading his work, then get excited to hear him perform at Babylon this Sat, Jun 14 @The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free! www.babylonsalon.com 🍻📚
Paul Flores poetry collection tackles life’s unexpected turns
San Francisco author Paul Flores reads from his new book, "We Still Be.”
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June 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'm thrilled to be introducing poet & playwright Paul S. Flores TOMORROW 6/14 at Babylon Salon. Pls join us at The Sycamore in the Mission at 5:30pm. As always, free! www.babylonsalon.com
#writing #books #reading
#writing #books #reading
🔥On Sat, 6/14, Babylon Salon proudly presents #authors Kate Folk [Sky Daddy], Paul S Flores [We Still Be], Duane Horton [No Hero Alone], S.G. Browne [Lost Creatures] & Lauren Parker [Spells for Success]! Come out to The SycamoreSF for drinks at 5pm! Reading, 5:30. Free! Deets: www.babylonsalon.com 💜
May 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🔥On Sat, 6/14, Babylon Salon proudly presents #authors Kate Folk [Sky Daddy], Paul S Flores [We Still Be], Duane Horton [No Hero Alone], S.G. Browne [Lost Creatures] & Lauren Parker [Spells for Success]! Come out to The SycamoreSF for drinks at 5pm! Reading, 5:30. Free! Deets: www.babylonsalon.com 💜
Happiness abounds! Wishing a wonderful launch to @loriostlund.bsky.social whose new story collection ARE YOU HAPPY? will astound & delight you! I highly recommend this book! loriostlund.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Happiness abounds! Wishing a wonderful launch to @loriostlund.bsky.social whose new story collection ARE YOU HAPPY? will astound & delight you! I highly recommend this book! loriostlund.com
🌠VeRRy VERRRY happy to say I just signed w/Sibylline Press, who'll publish my historical #novel LIGHT AND ASH--which takes place during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--in Spring, 2027. Many thanks to Vicki DeArmon & @juliaparktracey.bsky.social, who, among others, made this happen! 💜📖 💚
#writers
#writers
April 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🌠VeRRy VERRRY happy to say I just signed w/Sibylline Press, who'll publish my historical #novel LIGHT AND ASH--which takes place during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--in Spring, 2027. Many thanks to Vicki DeArmon & @juliaparktracey.bsky.social, who, among others, made this happen! 💜📖 💚
#writers
#writers
Excited to be reading w/ Brandy Collins & Leslie Kirk Campbell! Please join us! 📖💥
@thewritersgrotto.bsky.social #writers #fiction #writing #reading
@thewritersgrotto.bsky.social #writers #fiction #writing #reading
Join us for Words & Stories: Prose! 📚 Live readings by Brandy Collins, Leslie Kirk Campbell & Laurie Ann Doyle.
🗓 Fri, Apr 25 | 🕛 12–1 PM
📍 Salesforce Park, SF
Take a midday break with stories that inspire and connect. Free and open to all! #WordsAndStories #LitEvent #BayAreaWriters #WritersGrotto
🗓 Fri, Apr 25 | 🕛 12–1 PM
📍 Salesforce Park, SF
Take a midday break with stories that inspire and connect. Free and open to all! #WordsAndStories #LitEvent #BayAreaWriters #WritersGrotto
April 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Excited to be reading w/ Brandy Collins & Leslie Kirk Campbell! Please join us! 📖💥
@thewritersgrotto.bsky.social #writers #fiction #writing #reading
@thewritersgrotto.bsky.social #writers #fiction #writing #reading
💥I've been demonstrating since my 20s & I'm not about to stop now! So heartening to see that tens of thousands of protesters hit in the streets Saturday! Here's what we looked like in Berkeley, CA! 💜
April 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
💥I've been demonstrating since my 20s & I'm not about to stop now! So heartening to see that tens of thousands of protesters hit in the streets Saturday! Here's what we looked like in Berkeley, CA! 💜
I obsess about ,,, commas!
Good morning.
Here is our editorial director, Lin Webb, limbering up for
Another week of comma replacement activity.
Toodlemoose.
@thebookseller.com
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@thetimes.com
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Here is our editorial director, Lin Webb, limbering up for
Another week of comma replacement activity.
Toodlemoose.
@thebookseller.com
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@thetimes.com
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I obsess about ,,, commas!
💖 Friends! I'm excited to be offering "Great Writers Steal: How the Work of Master Writers Can Inform & Inspire You" starting Th, 4/10 online @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social! We’ll study the stories of Baldwin & others to get insights for yr own work. Details:
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
March 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
💖 Friends! I'm excited to be offering "Great Writers Steal: How the Work of Master Writers Can Inform & Inspire You" starting Th, 4/10 online @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social! We’ll study the stories of Baldwin & others to get insights for yr own work. Details:
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
I love this! ♥️
Not headed to LA? Feeling AWP FOMO? Here are 5 things to do instead:
1. Go to a local reading, concert, or play
2. Write a story or poem about FOMO
3. Hang out at your local library
4. Take care of yourself; you can't do everything
5. Read! Check out our archives for recs: buff.ly/4Wq8WbG
1. Go to a local reading, concert, or play
2. Write a story or poem about FOMO
3. Hang out at your local library
4. Take care of yourself; you can't do everything
5. Read! Check out our archives for recs: buff.ly/4Wq8WbG
March 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I love this! ♥️
I'm excited to be sharing some of my forthcoming novel LIGHT AND ASH at "Lit Nights" on Fri 3/28 @ 6:30pm @Page Street in SF! The amazing Janis Cooke Newman will be MCing! 💖 Free & open to the public! Pls join us! www.litcampwriters.org/our-events
#books #writers #reading
#books #writers #reading
March 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I'm excited to be sharing some of my forthcoming novel LIGHT AND ASH at "Lit Nights" on Fri 3/28 @ 6:30pm @Page Street in SF! The amazing Janis Cooke Newman will be MCing! 💖 Free & open to the public! Pls join us! www.litcampwriters.org/our-events
#books #writers #reading
#books #writers #reading
An eerily gorgeous photo taken near the Strait of Magellan by my brother Tom🍃
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
An eerily gorgeous photo taken near the Strait of Magellan by my brother Tom🍃
Reposted by Laurie Ann Doyle
TONIGHT! Please join us! ❤️❤️❤️
On Sat, Mar 1, Babylon is thrilled to present 5 amazing authors:
⭐ Jon Hickey
⭐ Mercilee Jenkins
⭐ sam sax
⭐ Nina Schuyler
⭐ Emily Jon Tobias
Come out to The Sycamore for drinks at 5 in the cozy, outdoor covered patio! Reading starts at 5:30. As always, admission is free. We can't wait to see you! ❤️
⭐ Jon Hickey
⭐ Mercilee Jenkins
⭐ sam sax
⭐ Nina Schuyler
⭐ Emily Jon Tobias
Come out to The Sycamore for drinks at 5 in the cozy, outdoor covered patio! Reading starts at 5:30. As always, admission is free. We can't wait to see you! ❤️
March 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
TONIGHT! Please join us! ❤️❤️❤️
Buy nothing today! Fight inflation & the billionaire takeover 💪
February 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Buy nothing today! Fight inflation & the billionaire takeover 💪
Nina & 4 other incredible authors will be reading at Babylon this Sat, 3/1 at The Sycamore SF, 5;30pm. We'd love to see you! As always, admission is free!
"In This Ravishing World," Nina Schuyler’s amazing new story collection explores humanity’s response to climate change in all its complexities. Check out this interview & get excited to hear Nina at Babylon this Sat, Mar 1 at The Sycamore SF at 5:30! www.babylonsalon.com
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Nina Schuyler on Giving a Voice to Nature in Fiction
In her brilliantly conceived and eloquent new linked story collection, In This Ravishing World, Nina Schuyler offers us a “loud and bright and unrelenting” chorus of voices calling us to rise above…
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February 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Nina & 4 other incredible authors will be reading at Babylon this Sat, 3/1 at The Sycamore SF, 5;30pm. We'd love to see you! As always, admission is free!
sam sax's new book "Yr Dead" was just longlisted for the National Book Award! 👏 👏 👏 Join us at Babylon this Sat, Mar 1 to hear sax & other amazing authors a—we’ll be in The Sycamore SF's covered patio in back! Doors, 5pm, Reading, 5:30pm. www.babylonsalon.com
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“There Is No Page That Can Hold Me”: Sam Sax’s Yr Dead - The Rumpus
By insisting that Ezra’s ordinary life is epic, Sax shows that every life must be epic, holding everyone accountable. No one can sit out.
therumpus.net
February 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
sam sax's new book "Yr Dead" was just longlisted for the National Book Award! 👏 👏 👏 Join us at Babylon this Sat, Mar 1 to hear sax & other amazing authors a—we’ll be in The Sycamore SF's covered patio in back! Doors, 5pm, Reading, 5:30pm. www.babylonsalon.com
therumpus.net/2024/08/06/s....
therumpus.net/2024/08/06/s....
Celebrating Victor Hugo today & every day! #writingcommunity
‘When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.’
Today marks the birthday of French author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician Victor Hugo. Born February 26, 1802 in Besançon, France.
Today marks the birthday of French author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician Victor Hugo. Born February 26, 1802 in Besançon, France.
February 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Celebrating Victor Hugo today & every day! #writingcommunity
Stoked about hearing @jonvhickey.bsky.social read from his new novel @babylonsalon.bsky.social this Saturday! ♥️
That’s me, that’s my book, and we’re appearing at Babylon Salon—one of the hottest, yes, hottest reading series around. Saturday, 3/1, at the Sycamore in SF.
🔥 "I had to tell a story about characters in crisis—spiritual, political, personal—& make the themes into something real and urgent.” ~@jonvhickey.bsky.social
For a preview of Jon's debut novel, join us this Sat., Mar. 1 @ The Sycamore SF! Doors @ 5pm, Reading @5:30. As always, admission is free! 💜
For a preview of Jon's debut novel, join us this Sat., Mar. 1 @ The Sycamore SF! Doors @ 5pm, Reading @5:30. As always, admission is free! 💜
February 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Stoked about hearing @jonvhickey.bsky.social read from his new novel @babylonsalon.bsky.social this Saturday! ♥️