Lauren C. Johnson
@laurencjohnson.bsky.social
🦉🦜Writer of words, lover of birds
📖THE WEST FAÇADE (SFWP '26)
Co-host @babylonsalonsf & @clubchicxulub
CA 🌊 & 🐊 FL
LaurenCJohnson.com
📖THE WEST FAÇADE (SFWP '26)
Co-host @babylonsalonsf & @clubchicxulub
CA 🌊 & 🐊 FL
LaurenCJohnson.com
The West Facade pub date is just around the corner on March 3 with @sfwp.bsky.social ! Lately I've been:
✍️ Proofreading
🗓️ Planning events
👀 Finding reviewers
😅 Trying not to freak out!
✍️ Proofreading
🗓️ Planning events
👀 Finding reviewers
😅 Trying not to freak out!
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The West Facade pub date is just around the corner on March 3 with @sfwp.bsky.social ! Lately I've been:
✍️ Proofreading
🗓️ Planning events
👀 Finding reviewers
😅 Trying not to freak out!
✍️ Proofreading
🗓️ Planning events
👀 Finding reviewers
😅 Trying not to freak out!
I've been furiously writing some New Shit ™️ to perform on Thursday night (11/13) at Poolside Poets, organized by Decentered Arts at the illustrious Phoenix Hotel! 💘
November 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I've been furiously writing some New Shit ™️ to perform on Thursday night (11/13) at Poolside Poets, organized by Decentered Arts at the illustrious Phoenix Hotel! 💘
Fairy tales?! We're ready to destroy them! (Well, complicate and reimagine them🪄✨)
I cannot wait to read alongside the iconic @kristinaten.bsky.social @syr.bsky.social and @ppirapokin.bsky.social at Lit Crawl @litquake.org on Oct 25! Join us for Femmes & Thems Destroy Fairy Tales!!!
I cannot wait to read alongside the iconic @kristinaten.bsky.social @syr.bsky.social and @ppirapokin.bsky.social at Lit Crawl @litquake.org on Oct 25! Join us for Femmes & Thems Destroy Fairy Tales!!!
October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Fairy tales?! We're ready to destroy them! (Well, complicate and reimagine them🪄✨)
I cannot wait to read alongside the iconic @kristinaten.bsky.social @syr.bsky.social and @ppirapokin.bsky.social at Lit Crawl @litquake.org on Oct 25! Join us for Femmes & Thems Destroy Fairy Tales!!!
I cannot wait to read alongside the iconic @kristinaten.bsky.social @syr.bsky.social and @ppirapokin.bsky.social at Lit Crawl @litquake.org on Oct 25! Join us for Femmes & Thems Destroy Fairy Tales!!!
If you love Gothic fairy tales about statues that come to life, then I wrote my novel, The West Facade for you. 🦇🥀 🌙 Let's be friends!
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If you love Gothic fairy tales about statues that come to life, then I wrote my novel, The West Facade for you. 🦇🥀 🌙 Let's be friends!
I wrote my debut novel while working full time. It took me 10 years, but I don't regret any of the time I spent drafting and revising.
September 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I wrote my debut novel while working full time. It took me 10 years, but I don't regret any of the time I spent drafting and revising.
My weird Gothic fairytale novel, The West Facade comes out exactly 6 months from today with @sfwp.bsky.social Eeeee!
Here's how you can pre-order 🌙🖤 www.sfwp.com/books/johnson
Here's how you can pre-order 🌙🖤 www.sfwp.com/books/johnson
September 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My weird Gothic fairytale novel, The West Facade comes out exactly 6 months from today with @sfwp.bsky.social Eeeee!
Here's how you can pre-order 🌙🖤 www.sfwp.com/books/johnson
Here's how you can pre-order 🌙🖤 www.sfwp.com/books/johnson
A belated congrats to Alexander Boldizar for winning the 2025 Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2024 for The Man Who Saw Seconds!!!
This was my first time attending the Locus Awards Weekend festivities and it was a hoot!
This was my first time attending the Locus Awards Weekend festivities and it was a hoot!
June 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A belated congrats to Alexander Boldizar for winning the 2025 Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2024 for The Man Who Saw Seconds!!!
This was my first time attending the Locus Awards Weekend festivities and it was a hoot!
This was my first time attending the Locus Awards Weekend festivities and it was a hoot!
I’m excited to introduce the bewitching @laurenparker.bsky.social, author of Dark Way Down and Spells for Success, at @babylonsalon.bsky.social's Summer reading and performance on 6/14! Join us for merrymaking, storytelling, drinks, curly fries, and catching up with friends at the Sycamore Bar!
May 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’m excited to introduce the bewitching @laurenparker.bsky.social, author of Dark Way Down and Spells for Success, at @babylonsalon.bsky.social's Summer reading and performance on 6/14! Join us for merrymaking, storytelling, drinks, curly fries, and catching up with friends at the Sycamore Bar!
Tonight's Club Chicxulub is going to be a wild ride. 🦖☄️ Demonic roomies and neighbors! Sacrifices! Spells! Cyborg love and cyborg sex! Every kind of witch! Our writers and musicians have brought it all!
We’ll see you at 7:00 p.m. tonight at Ingleside's premier town tavern, Ocean Ale House! 🌊🎹
We’ll see you at 7:00 p.m. tonight at Ingleside's premier town tavern, Ocean Ale House! 🌊🎹
April 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tonight's Club Chicxulub is going to be a wild ride. 🦖☄️ Demonic roomies and neighbors! Sacrifices! Spells! Cyborg love and cyborg sex! Every kind of witch! Our writers and musicians have brought it all!
We’ll see you at 7:00 p.m. tonight at Ingleside's premier town tavern, Ocean Ale House! 🌊🎹
We’ll see you at 7:00 p.m. tonight at Ingleside's premier town tavern, Ocean Ale House! 🌊🎹
Happy belated Spring Equinox/Ostara! 🌱🪻Yesterday, I spent some time journaling in my Mushroom School Workbook from Corporeal Writing. I will forever shout Corporeal Writing’s praises to anyone looking for a creative writing and arts community.
March 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Happy belated Spring Equinox/Ostara! 🌱🪻Yesterday, I spent some time journaling in my Mushroom School Workbook from Corporeal Writing. I will forever shout Corporeal Writing’s praises to anyone looking for a creative writing and arts community.
Hands down, one of my favorite interviews I’ve worked on to date. I had so much fun chatting with Lauren Parker (@laurenparker.bsky.social) about her new poetry collection, Dark Way Down—a speculative continuation of David Bowie’s 1976 album, Station to Station.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hands down, one of my favorite interviews I’ve worked on to date. I had so much fun chatting with Lauren Parker (@laurenparker.bsky.social) about her new poetry collection, Dark Way Down—a speculative continuation of David Bowie’s 1976 album, Station to Station.
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Bay Area friends! Babylon Salon is back on Saturday, March 1 for our Spring 2025 Performance🌱 featuring:
⭐ Jon Hickey
⭐ Mercilee Jenkins
⭐ sam sax
⭐ Nina Schuyler
⭐ Emily Jon Tobias
There will be books! There will be beer! There will be much needed community and catharsis.
⭐ Jon Hickey
⭐ Mercilee Jenkins
⭐ sam sax
⭐ Nina Schuyler
⭐ Emily Jon Tobias
There will be books! There will be beer! There will be much needed community and catharsis.
February 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Bay Area friends! Babylon Salon is back on Saturday, March 1 for our Spring 2025 Performance🌱 featuring:
⭐ Jon Hickey
⭐ Mercilee Jenkins
⭐ sam sax
⭐ Nina Schuyler
⭐ Emily Jon Tobias
There will be books! There will be beer! There will be much needed community and catharsis.
⭐ Jon Hickey
⭐ Mercilee Jenkins
⭐ sam sax
⭐ Nina Schuyler
⭐ Emily Jon Tobias
There will be books! There will be beer! There will be much needed community and catharsis.
I interviewed @taracampbell.bsky.social about her brilliant new book, City of Dancing Gargoyles (@sfwp.bsky.social) for The Racket Journal!
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January 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I interviewed @taracampbell.bsky.social about her brilliant new book, City of Dancing Gargoyles (@sfwp.bsky.social) for The Racket Journal!
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Instead of setting new year’s resolutions, many people I know (especially authors I follow) have a practice of choosing a word for the year and letting that word be their guide. I’ve decided to try it out this year and have settled on the word “observe” for 2025.
January 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Instead of setting new year’s resolutions, many people I know (especially authors I follow) have a practice of choosing a word for the year and letting that word be their guide. I’ve decided to try it out this year and have settled on the word “observe” for 2025.
I was pretty much comatose from food poisoning all day on Tue (never again will I order takeout from a restaurant that’s about to close) and couldn’t go to work or leave the apartment. BUT I finished a book that’s been on my TBR pile for ages: The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper.
January 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I was pretty much comatose from food poisoning all day on Tue (never again will I order takeout from a restaurant that’s about to close) and couldn’t go to work or leave the apartment. BUT I finished a book that’s been on my TBR pile for ages: The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper.
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with ecopoetics about a harpy guarding the mouth of the Florida Aquifer. Very fun to see an excerpt in zine form, thanks to the curators of “Just Chugged Four Beers,” a new reading series and open-mic night hosted at Ingleside’s premier tavern, Ocean Ale House.
January 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with ecopoetics about a harpy guarding the mouth of the Florida Aquifer. Very fun to see an excerpt in zine form, thanks to the curators of “Just Chugged Four Beers,” a new reading series and open-mic night hosted at Ingleside’s premier tavern, Ocean Ale House.
In 2024, I lost my dad to cancer in the same month that I got a book deal for the novel I’d spent over ten years writing.
I love this photo; I'm laughing but maybe I look like I'm crying and raging at the same time. Joy. Grief. Rage. All the emotions. I hope 2025 is a gentle year for all of us. 🕯️✨
I love this photo; I'm laughing but maybe I look like I'm crying and raging at the same time. Joy. Grief. Rage. All the emotions. I hope 2025 is a gentle year for all of us. 🕯️✨
January 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
In 2024, I lost my dad to cancer in the same month that I got a book deal for the novel I’d spent over ten years writing.
I love this photo; I'm laughing but maybe I look like I'm crying and raging at the same time. Joy. Grief. Rage. All the emotions. I hope 2025 is a gentle year for all of us. 🕯️✨
I love this photo; I'm laughing but maybe I look like I'm crying and raging at the same time. Joy. Grief. Rage. All the emotions. I hope 2025 is a gentle year for all of us. 🕯️✨
Meet Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 3, Harvest! Give it a read or give it a listen!
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With gorgeous cover illustration “Hamlet” by Sonia Lai.
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With gorgeous cover illustration “Hamlet” by Sonia Lai.
December 3, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Meet Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 3, Harvest! Give it a read or give it a listen!
clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxul...
With gorgeous cover illustration “Hamlet” by Sonia Lai.
clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxul...
With gorgeous cover illustration “Hamlet” by Sonia Lai.
Something wild and wonderous is coming your way on July 14! 🌿✨🖤 The inaugural Club Chicxulub Online Journal! 🌿🩸🪶 Cover art by Gerlanda di Francia.
clubchicxulub.com ☄️🦖
clubchicxulub.com ☄️🦖
July 11, 2023 at 5:10 PM
Something wild and wonderous is coming your way on July 14! 🌿✨🖤 The inaugural Club Chicxulub Online Journal! 🌿🩸🪶 Cover art by Gerlanda di Francia.
clubchicxulub.com ☄️🦖
clubchicxulub.com ☄️🦖
Friends! I have some very exciting news to share! I'm hosting my dream literary reading on 7/27 at the Sycamore Bar in San Francisco at 7pm. The theme is BIRDS! Birds, baby, birds!!!
Each reader has chosen a bird and each reader will share a piece they wrote about said bird!
Each reader has chosen a bird and each reader will share a piece they wrote about said bird!
July 8, 2023 at 9:47 PM
Friends! I have some very exciting news to share! I'm hosting my dream literary reading on 7/27 at the Sycamore Bar in San Francisco at 7pm. The theme is BIRDS! Birds, baby, birds!!!
Each reader has chosen a bird and each reader will share a piece they wrote about said bird!
Each reader has chosen a bird and each reader will share a piece they wrote about said bird!
Y'all, I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed with social media these days, but Bluesky does look pretty rad so far! Saying hi/re-introducing myself🦉🧵
July 8, 2023 at 3:37 PM
Y'all, I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed with social media these days, but Bluesky does look pretty rad so far! Saying hi/re-introducing myself🦉🧵