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Laura Garden
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Farmer who writes, she/her, sapphic stories, Writer's Digest Award Winner.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#writing #booksky #🌈📚#sapphic #novel #writingcommunity #querying #queerwriterschat
Work in Progress
September 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Outback Brokeback Mountain x Ribbonwood
Age-gap Grumpy/Sunshine Aussie ranchers battle climate change and their demons to keep the ranch alive and become a family.
Queer parenting, Women's Soccer, Climate Fiction.🌴

#BluePit #CliFi #Amquerying #LGBT #WF w/ #R #OV #A #Q #writingcommunity #bluepit📖
July 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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My weekly newsletter, where I muse about writing, farming, and life in the US, was selected for the LGBTQ+ directory of Substacks!
Also hit the 100 subscriber milestone today!💐💯
Small victories!
#writesky #amwriting #querying #writing #writingcommunity #amediting #wip #queerwriterschat #booksky
Image says: "I write a thing: Writing in Work Gloves: The Pitchfork and the Butterfly by Laura Garden."
June 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Queer history serial part 12!
“Which war? Yes, ma’am. Thou art a bloodhound in petticoats.” She crossed her arms over her chest against the wind. “Give me hot water, a clean set of clothes and soap to wash my laundry, and I’ll hear you out.” When her hair was clean she felt like a new woman. The dress was threadbare at the elbows but clean. The first mate made it clear that the dress was a loan. Breakfast at the officer’s table. The table sat directly under a lofted glass window shaped like a box. Benches screwed to the floor. Coffee, biscuits and gravy, bacon. “How is the oyster business?” she asked. The captain read a newspaper. “Booming.” “Money in it?” “Thou’d be surprised.” She nursed her coffee. It looked like she might not have cholera after all. Her guts were still angry, but they had settled. Her palms began to sweat. She should have denied being a spy. “Why do you ‘thee’ and ‘thou’?” The captain folded the newspaper. “Thou have two choices, as I see them. Go back to thy army, tell them it didn’t pan out, ask to be reassigned. Or go home.
June 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The Potomac smelled like guts. In the bow of the skiff, Union spy Leigh Wahl sat on a coiled rope. No breeze tonight. The city was their lantern. The pilot, a local freed man, corrected course to avoid a dark shape on the horizon: the hull of an anchored ship. Ghost bells clanged. The lurching gait of the rowboat, catch and glide, catch and glide… Dawn revealed the faces—rosy-cheeked, virginal—of the rowers. Somewhere a pair of green-winged teal chirped like spring peepers. Wahl watched the pilot navigate through a minefield of anchored ships. This was his home; the rest of them were flotsam passing through. Dabbling ducks played hide-and seek behind an anchored steam clipper.
May 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Brokeback Mountain with Australian women x Call Me By Your Name X Louise Penny

-Small town epic ranch saga
-Feuding families
-Found family
-Sapphic age-gap romance

#QuestPit #LGBT #Q #F
May 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #LGBTQ #amquerying #Sapphic
April 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I have a Substack about writing!
Two people on horseback look out over the Australian landscape. Text says "My Newsletter: Writing in Work Gloves"
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Hello #WSPit event!
"Butch best friends in small town Australia, one a young soccer coach and single mom with a criminal past, the other a grumpy middle-aged rancher, fight environmental disasters, overcome intersectional oppression and learn to love themselves."
#WSPit #WSPitQ #LGBT #Sapphic
February 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Hello again Cupit pitch event!
"Butch best friends in small town Australia, one a young soccer coach and single mom with a criminal past, the other a grumpy middle-aged rancher, fight environmental disasters, overcome intersectional oppression and learn to love themselves."
#cupit #LGBT #Sapphic
Two women herding sheep on horseback
February 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Hello Cupit pitch event!
"Butch best friends in small town Australia, one a young soccer coach and single mom with a criminal past, the other a grumpy middle-aged rancher, fight environmental disasters, overcome intersectional oppression and learn to love themselves."
#cupit #LGBT #Sapphic
February 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Anyone else going to this?
January 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM