Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚
@lwcoates.bsky.social
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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“This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, Patience.”
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
I think of my time at UC Santa Cruz, and how the university made education open and available. It seems like a vanished golden age.
Students from nine UC campuses plan to rally this week against a regents vote on tuition hikes, arguing possible increases make education more inaccessible. UC officials say changes will shield against inflation & make costs more predictable over time:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Students oppose UC tuition hikes. Leaders say campuses need money in the Trump era
The University of California board of regents will vote on whether to increase overall tuition and renew program that keeps tuition costs the each for each new enrolling class. Student leaders strongl...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I think of my time at UC Santa Cruz, and how the university made education open and available. It seems like a vanished golden age.
Does anyone really say “surroundings” and not “sides” or “side dishes?” I’ve never heard of that.
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Does anyone really say “surroundings” and not “sides” or “side dishes?” I’ve never heard of that.
I was disappointed in Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein." The dialogue toward the end was obvious and banal, the father-son redemption unearned, the optimistic dawn at the end inexplicable. #frankenstein
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I was disappointed in Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein." The dialogue toward the end was obvious and banal, the father-son redemption unearned, the optimistic dawn at the end inexplicable. #frankenstein
Congrats to @annpacker.bsky.social . Her new novel, Some Bright Nowhere, was chosen for Oprah's Book Club.
#booksky I haven't read it yet, but I loved her previous book, The Children's Crusade.
#booksky I haven't read it yet, but I loved her previous book, The Children's Crusade.
Oprah Winfrey picks Ann Packer's 'Some Bright Nowhere' for book club
Ann Packer's novel “Some Bright Nowhere” is Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. Published on Tuesday, the book tells the story of a long-married couple facing questions when the wife becomes termin...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Congrats to @annpacker.bsky.social . Her new novel, Some Bright Nowhere, was chosen for Oprah's Book Club.
#booksky I haven't read it yet, but I loved her previous book, The Children's Crusade.
#booksky I haven't read it yet, but I loved her previous book, The Children's Crusade.
Congratulations to David Szalay, and to all the writers on the shortlist. #booksky
David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize for ‘Flesh’
The Hungarian-British novelist has won this year’s Booker Prize for his sixth work of fiction, which follows a Hungarian man who attempts to build a new life in the wake of his traumatic adolescence.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Congratulations to David Szalay, and to all the writers on the shortlist. #booksky
Happy Veterans Day to all, and especially to my fellow Coast Guard veterans. #semperparatus
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Happy Veterans Day to all, and especially to my fellow Coast Guard veterans. #semperparatus
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
A testimony from Chicago.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
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He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A testimony from Chicago.
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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This is an all hands on deck moment to save health care.
If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...
If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...
Is Your Health Care Premium Going Up? Share Your Story | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
www.warren.senate.gov
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is an all hands on deck moment to save health care.
If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...
If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...
I'm teaching Tom Jones now, and just delighted that the students are all atwitter about finding out who Tom's real father is. They could look it up on Wikipedia, but they are reading the book instead to discover it as Fielding intended. #booksky
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding: 9780679405696 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
One of the first and most influential of English novels—originally published in 1749—is blessed with a lively and endearing hero at the center of one of the most ingeniously constructed comic...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I'm teaching Tom Jones now, and just delighted that the students are all atwitter about finding out who Tom's real father is. They could look it up on Wikipedia, but they are reading the book instead to discover it as Fielding intended. #booksky
THESE WORN BODIES (@mooncitypress.bsky.social) officially hit the streets 1 year ago TODAY and when I say it’s been a JOURNEY I’m talking about one of the most wonderful experiences within the writing community I’ve had.
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
November, the month for "Bats." This story won the Barthelme Prize from Gulf Coast. The judge that year was Robert Coover. Enjoy!
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2013 Barthelme Prize Winner: Bats - Gulf Coast Literary Journal
In November, all the women in Northwest Ohio have bats in their purses. They hang upside down within the purses, no matter the size, silent, peaceful, their tiny claws clinging to the cell phone &hel...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
November, the month for "Bats." This story won the Barthelme Prize from Gulf Coast. The judge that year was Robert Coover. Enjoy!
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Happy Halloween. “Death is the sanction of everything the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.” Walter Benjamin. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙💙📚💙
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Happy Halloween. “Death is the sanction of everything the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.” Walter Benjamin. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙💙📚💙
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a stunning novel. My favorite by Shirley Jackson.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a stunning novel. My favorite by Shirley Jackson.
Submissions for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards are now OPEN! (Link in bio, read guidelines)
We are thrilled to announce the jury for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards!
Jamal Hodge
Molly Tanzer
Craig Laurance Gidney
Terri Leigh Relf
Mike Arnzen
Sadie Hartmann
We are thrilled to announce the jury for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards!
Jamal Hodge
Molly Tanzer
Craig Laurance Gidney
Terri Leigh Relf
Mike Arnzen
Sadie Hartmann
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
#writingcommunity
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a stunning novel. My favorite by Shirley Jackson.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a stunning novel. My favorite by Shirley Jackson.
Changing my profile photo for the season.
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Changing my profile photo for the season.
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And they're fucking dope. No reason for them to go this hard.
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
And they're fucking dope. No reason for them to go this hard.
Happy Tenth Book Birthday to my novella, Camp Olvido. The book won the Miami University Press Novella Prize. Thanks again to all at @miamioh-press.bsky.social.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Happy Tenth Book Birthday to my novella, Camp Olvido. The book won the Miami University Press Novella Prize. Thanks again to all at @miamioh-press.bsky.social.
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Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera, recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize @ursulakleguin.com for Fiction for Rakesfall! #booksky And congratulations to all the finalists.
Ursula K. Le Guin — 2025 Prize for Fiction
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October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera, recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize @ursulakleguin.com for Fiction for Rakesfall! #booksky And congratulations to all the finalists.
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“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us."
Kenny Loggins Demands Removal of 'Danger Zone' From AI Clip of Trump Dumping Poop on Protesters
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October 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us."
Happy Commodore Jones Day! On this date in 1842, Commodore Jones of the United States Navy, acting on a rumor of war, took over the capital of Mexican California and gave it back after a day. This act of mistaken conquest is given a comic twist in my novel The Master of Monterey. #booksky
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy Commodore Jones Day! On this date in 1842, Commodore Jones of the United States Navy, acting on a rumor of war, took over the capital of Mexican California and gave it back after a day. This act of mistaken conquest is given a comic twist in my novel The Master of Monterey. #booksky