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
A short video I did for Fairy Tale Review. My story “The Sardine Widow” is coming out soon in the Silver Issue. #booksky #writersky
Fairy Tale Review | WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE FAIRY TALE? with Lawrence Coates
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Another treat for you in our Favorite Fairy Tale Series as we...
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February 18, 2026 at 4:49 AM
A short video I did for Fairy Tale Review. My story “The Sardine Widow” is coming out soon in the Silver Issue. #booksky #writersky
Yes, you *do* still have time to get your #FlashFiction entry in to @natflashfictionday.bsky.social 2026 anthology call & micro comp.
But you'd better get a shift on.
All submission bridges drawn up at 23:59 (GMT), TODAY, 15 FEB.
Enter through the website: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
But you'd better get a shift on.
All submission bridges drawn up at 23:59 (GMT), TODAY, 15 FEB.
Enter through the website: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
National Flash Fiction Day
Save the Date: we're celebrating the next National Flash Fiction Day on 13 June 2026!
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
From a new book about Toni Morrison by Namwali Serpell. #booksky
‘She dared to be difficult’: How Toni Morrison shaped the way we think
The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM
From a new book about Toni Morrison by Namwali Serpell. #booksky
Just today & tomorrow to get your subs into our micro comp (up to 100 words, no theme) & our anthology (theme of BRIDGES, up to 500 words). Subs open till 23:59 on 15 Feb! Cash prizes & publication! More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
a cartoon character from south park is talking on a phone and says you better hurry
ALT: a cartoon character from south park is talking on a phone and says you better hurry
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February 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Manuscript Wish List Day is coming up later this month! #agents #writing #writingcommunity #booksky #writersky 📚💙📚🖋️💙🖋️
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 26, 2026 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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February 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Manuscript Wish List Day is coming up later this month! #agents #writing #writingcommunity #booksky #writersky 📚💙📚🖋️💙🖋️
Are any #Literaryagents going to be at the @awpwriter.org conference in Baltimore? Anyone open to a pitch? 🖋️ I'm on a panel.
January 22, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Are any #Literaryagents going to be at the @awpwriter.org conference in Baltimore? Anyone open to a pitch? 🖋️ I'm on a panel.
Beginning a group read of Beowulf with A Public Space today. #booksky
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January 20, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Beginning a group read of Beowulf with A Public Space today. #booksky
#booksky I've got the Kang book on the top of by TBR pile. I also have Kitamura's book "Intimacies" there, which I picked up when I saw her in Cleveland last year. Always too many books to read .. I'm a Karen Russell fan too.
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Fiction!
January 20, 2026 at 5:51 PM
#booksky I've got the Kang book on the top of by TBR pile. I also have Kitamura's book "Intimacies" there, which I picked up when I saw her in Cleveland last year. Always too many books to read .. I'm a Karen Russell fan too.
Best of Writer Beware: 2025 in Review writerbeware.blog/2026/01/16/b...
Best of Writer Beware: 2025 in Review - Writer Beware
It’s been a busy year in writing scams (but then what year isn’t?). From the new AI marketing scams, to nasty contract clauses, to publishers behaving badly, to the biggest copyright infringement rest...
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January 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I'm looking forward to the group reading of Beowulf, beginning January 20, through A Public Space. #booksky #beowulf #epic📚💙📚
Beowulf: A Preview and Reading Schedule
Hwaet! A new season of APS Together
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January 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
A bestseller lists for independent presses, based on sales at independent bookstores. Long live indies! #indies #writingcommunity #booksky📚💙📚🖋️📚💙🖋️💙
Top 40 Bestsellers — Independent Publishers Caucus
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January 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
A bestseller lists for independent presses, based on sales at independent bookstores. Long live indies! #indies #writingcommunity #booksky📚💙📚🖋️📚💙🖋️💙
I have bought a ticket. Might be my only chance to own a Picasso.
January 12, 2026 at 9:23 PM
I have bought a ticket. Might be my only chance to own a Picasso.
Good words, #writingcommunity !
Get those words written, even if they're bad! #MondayMotivaton #mondaythoughts #WritingCommunity #5amwritersclub #writesky
January 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Good words, #writingcommunity !
Stephen Miller's statements reminds me of the Melian Dialogue from #Thucydides:
Miller said: “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
Miller said: “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
January 6, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Stephen Miller's statements reminds me of the Melian Dialogue from #Thucydides:
Miller said: “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
Miller said: “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
From Laurie Anderson: “Instead of a period at the end of each sentence, there should be a tiny clock that tells you how long it took you to write that sentence.” Writers can relate. #booksky #writingconmunity 💙📚💙🖋️💙📚🖋️📚
January 5, 2026 at 6:48 PM
From Laurie Anderson: “Instead of a period at the end of each sentence, there should be a tiny clock that tells you how long it took you to write that sentence.” Writers can relate. #booksky #writingconmunity 💙📚💙🖋️💙📚🖋️📚
#booksky This excellent column by @samanthaellis.bsky.social brings up aspects of #wutheringheights I've been pondering since my recent reread. 📚💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️
‘It’s no romcom’: why the real Wuthering Heights is too extreme for the screen
The new film adaptation by Saltburn director Emerald Fennell looks set to be provocative – but nowhere near as shocking as Emily Brontë’s original
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
#booksky This excellent column by @samanthaellis.bsky.social brings up aspects of #wutheringheights I've been pondering since my recent reread. 📚💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️
Bluesketeers?
We could do this, as a culture, bluesketeers.
I saw a post addressing "blueskeeters" but I read "bluesketeers" like "musketeers/mouseketeers" and in my head, this is absolutely sticking.
December 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Bluesketeers?
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Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄
#wutheringheights The ending: Heathcliff achieved his revenge and gained control of both estates … and then Cathy’s ghost seems to call him, and he just dies? #booksky 📚💙📚🖋️💙🖋️
December 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#wutheringheights The ending: Heathcliff achieved his revenge and gained control of both estates … and then Cathy’s ghost seems to call him, and he just dies? #booksky 📚💙📚🖋️💙🖋️
I'm rereading #wutheringheights because I saw that a movie is coming out. It's darker and stranger than I recalled. Heathcliff's unknowable origins play a very large role in the story, which strikes me as a revenge plot. Anyone else revisiting #bronte? #booksky 💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️
December 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I'm rereading #wutheringheights because I saw that a movie is coming out. It's darker and stranger than I recalled. Heathcliff's unknowable origins play a very large role in the story, which strikes me as a revenge plot. Anyone else revisiting #bronte? #booksky 💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️
A moving obituary of one of my good teachers in Utah. #writingcommunity #booksky 💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️
www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...
www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...
Acclaimed Utah playwright and ‘artistic force’ David Kranes dies at 87
David Kranes, a prolific Utah playwright - called by one theater director "the best American playwright you haven’t read yet" - has died. He was 88.
www.sltrib.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A moving obituary of one of my good teachers in Utah. #writingcommunity #booksky 💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️
www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...
www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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