Casey Lawrence
@myexplodingpen.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, scholar. She/they. Lit PhD from Trinity College Dublin.
Pinned
On the worst days, it murmurates,
small hurts becoming one writhing mass
blocking out the sun, looming and shitting
on the windshield of your new car.
Yes, grief is a strange bird indeed.
www.gothamliterature.nyc/content/grie...
small hurts becoming one writhing mass
blocking out the sun, looming and shitting
on the windshield of your new car.
Yes, grief is a strange bird indeed.
www.gothamliterature.nyc/content/grie...
Big news! You can now get all three of my YA books in one convenient eBook "box set"! Check out The Survivor's Club Series, now available for preorder at a discount: www.jms-books.com/casey-lawren... (releases November 23) #youngadult #bibooks #lgbtbooks
The Survivor's Club Box Set : JMS Books LLC, a queer small press
GENRE: Bisexual Interracial Thriller YA Romance Box SetLENGTH: 157,657 wordsRATING: Corinna “Corey” Nguyen’s life was perfectly average for a closeted bisexual whiz kid navigating senior year with her...
www.jms-books.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Big news! You can now get all three of my YA books in one convenient eBook "box set"! Check out The Survivor's Club Series, now available for preorder at a discount: www.jms-books.com/casey-lawren... (releases November 23) #youngadult #bibooks #lgbtbooks
Happy #FungiFriday! Is this Strobilurus tenacellus, AKA pinecone cap?
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Happy #FungiFriday! Is this Strobilurus tenacellus, AKA pinecone cap?
Come on, scammers. At least edit the ai summaries when you send your "I loved your book, please pay me to promote it to my book club" emails!
![Your work has deeply resonated with our members. Its [lyrical prose / emotional depth / compelling themes customize as appropriate] offers a perspective that feels both intimate and far-reaching. The way you explore [themes such as belonging, resilience, or the human spirit] beautifully reflects the kind of literature our readers are drawn to stories that connect hearts, challenge minds, and linger long after the final page.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wpqvgawv4z2ennvpejau76jw/bafkreifu4wtwrh72wbtge4fvktscxkumaxlzz4ov3ehzppepikcazeg7vi@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Come on, scammers. At least edit the ai summaries when you send your "I loved your book, please pay me to promote it to my book club" emails!
Marriage is a trap. You let a man show you one (1) Star War and the next thing you know, you’re gluing wires on a belt so you can dress up as gay robots for Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Marriage is a trap. You let a man show you one (1) Star War and the next thing you know, you’re gluing wires on a belt so you can dress up as gay robots for Halloween.
Happy Halloween & #FungiFriday! Here's a creepy mushroom I photographed the other day. I've named it "Cyclops skull." #spooky!
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Happy Halloween & #FungiFriday! Here's a creepy mushroom I photographed the other day. I've named it "Cyclops skull." #spooky!
Husband: Time to leave for our immigration appointment. We have to get our photos taken for residence cards.
Me: 'Kay one sec, just let me GIVE MYSELF BANGS WITH KITCHEN SCISSORS.
I am an absolute nightmare. In my defense, I was having a bad hair day. Plus #AuDHD. But the impulse bangs look FINE.
Me: 'Kay one sec, just let me GIVE MYSELF BANGS WITH KITCHEN SCISSORS.
I am an absolute nightmare. In my defense, I was having a bad hair day. Plus #AuDHD. But the impulse bangs look FINE.
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Husband: Time to leave for our immigration appointment. We have to get our photos taken for residence cards.
Me: 'Kay one sec, just let me GIVE MYSELF BANGS WITH KITCHEN SCISSORS.
I am an absolute nightmare. In my defense, I was having a bad hair day. Plus #AuDHD. But the impulse bangs look FINE.
Me: 'Kay one sec, just let me GIVE MYSELF BANGS WITH KITCHEN SCISSORS.
I am an absolute nightmare. In my defense, I was having a bad hair day. Plus #AuDHD. But the impulse bangs look FINE.
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Re-posting this to celebrate the end of the first weekend of early voting. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mondoweiss.net "Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City" mondoweiss.net/2025/09/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City
In taking a stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its Zionist underpinnings while running for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani is situating himself within a historical lineage of anti-Zionis...
mondoweiss.net
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Re-posting this to celebrate the end of the first weekend of early voting. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mondoweiss.net "Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City" mondoweiss.net/2025/09/zohr...
My internet's been down since Friday, but in the meantime apparently I've had a paper published! Check out “The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation”, Open Library of Humanities, vol. 11, no. 2, 2025. olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation
In James Joyce's Ulysses, both the ‘Cyclops’ episode and the parodic legal proceedings of ‘Circe’ treat sexual deviance as anti-Irish—a feminised foreign invader threatening the heterosexist, hypermas...
olh.openlibhums.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My internet's been down since Friday, but in the meantime apparently I've had a paper published! Check out “The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation”, Open Library of Humanities, vol. 11, no. 2, 2025. olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
Happy #fungifriday! Amanita muscaria at sunset among the heather 🍄
October 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Happy #fungifriday! Amanita muscaria at sunset among the heather 🍄
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Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.
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It’s still a few months away from release but I’m at @canconsffh.bsky.social in Ottawa promoting the anthology about small town Canadian superheroes called Super Canucks that Mat Del Papa and I edited together. Coming March 2026 from @latitude46pub.bsky.social I have postcards to share. #cancon2025
October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It’s still a few months away from release but I’m at @canconsffh.bsky.social in Ottawa promoting the anthology about small town Canadian superheroes called Super Canucks that Mat Del Papa and I edited together. Coming March 2026 from @latitude46pub.bsky.social I have postcards to share. #cancon2025
My husband has inadvertently trained the local birds that if they knock on the kitchen window, someone will come put seeds in the birdfeeder.
I work from home, and half my job now is attending to needy tits.
The woodpecker is pretty though.
I work from home, and half my job now is attending to needy tits.
The woodpecker is pretty though.
October 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
My husband has inadvertently trained the local birds that if they knock on the kitchen window, someone will come put seeds in the birdfeeder.
I work from home, and half my job now is attending to needy tits.
The woodpecker is pretty though.
I work from home, and half my job now is attending to needy tits.
The woodpecker is pretty though.
Happy #FungiFriday! Is this pose more "Come at me, bro!" or "Heyy guurl"?
October 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Happy #FungiFriday! Is this pose more "Come at me, bro!" or "Heyy guurl"?
Here's a fly agaric toadstool with a wee friend on top (thanks for posing!) for #FungiFriday
October 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Here's a fly agaric toadstool with a wee friend on top (thanks for posing!) for #FungiFriday
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Sometimes Taylor Swift writes a song that perfectly fits the book I wrote when I was 19, and I transcend the mortal plane for a second.
Sometimes Taylor Swift writes a song that perfectly fits the book I wrote when I was 19, and I transcend the mortal plane for a second.
Sometimes Taylor Swift writes a song that perfectly fits the book I wrote when I was 19, and I transcend the mortal plane for a second. If you want a good cry, check out my novel “Out of Order” by Ca...
TikTok video by Casey Lawrence
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October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Sometimes Taylor Swift writes a song that perfectly fits the book I wrote when I was 19, and I transcend the mortal plane for a second.
Sometimes Taylor Swift writes a song that perfectly fits the book I wrote when I was 19, and I transcend the mortal plane for a second.
What Will Saudi Arabia’s EA Buyout Mean for The Sims?
EA has been sold for an astronomical $55 billion dollars to a “consortium” comprising Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, leaving LGBTQ+ fans reeling.
medium.com/p/391cd93b0ba1
EA has been sold for an astronomical $55 billion dollars to a “consortium” comprising Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, leaving LGBTQ+ fans reeling.
medium.com/p/391cd93b0ba1
What Will Saudi Arabia’s Video Game Acquisition Mean for ‘The Sims’?
A famously queer video game now belongs to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and fans are worried
medium.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
What Will Saudi Arabia’s EA Buyout Mean for The Sims?
EA has been sold for an astronomical $55 billion dollars to a “consortium” comprising Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, leaving LGBTQ+ fans reeling.
medium.com/p/391cd93b0ba1
EA has been sold for an astronomical $55 billion dollars to a “consortium” comprising Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, leaving LGBTQ+ fans reeling.
medium.com/p/391cd93b0ba1
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IT'S #CHOICESANTHOLOGY RELEASE DAY!!! To celebrate, I'm hosting an AMA here ALL DAY
Ask your questions about the anthology itself, reproductive rights, and writing/editing generally & I'll pop in every 30 minutes to share answers
And be sure to grab the book! books2read.com/u/3JYo9Q
Ask your questions about the anthology itself, reproductive rights, and writing/editing generally & I'll pop in every 30 minutes to share answers
And be sure to grab the book! books2read.com/u/3JYo9Q
September 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
IT'S #CHOICESANTHOLOGY RELEASE DAY!!! To celebrate, I'm hosting an AMA here ALL DAY
Ask your questions about the anthology itself, reproductive rights, and writing/editing generally & I'll pop in every 30 minutes to share answers
And be sure to grab the book! books2read.com/u/3JYo9Q
Ask your questions about the anthology itself, reproductive rights, and writing/editing generally & I'll pop in every 30 minutes to share answers
And be sure to grab the book! books2read.com/u/3JYo9Q
Happy Book Birthday to Choices: an anthology of reproductive horror, edited by @diannalgunn.bsky.social. To sum up my 5-star review: riveting, horrifying, brutal--and very, very necessary.
medium.com/reviewsday-t...
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ARC: Choices, an Anthology of Reproductive Horror
Edited by Dianna Gunn, author of “Killer Debt”
medium.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Happy Book Birthday to Choices: an anthology of reproductive horror, edited by @diannalgunn.bsky.social. To sum up my 5-star review: riveting, horrifying, brutal--and very, very necessary.
medium.com/reviewsday-t...
medium.com/reviewsday-t...
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My new article in #mondoweiss situating #Mamdani in relation to anti-Zionism in the Arabic-speaking and Jewish communities of 1920s NYC. Although the journal labels it an opinion piece, it is almost entirely historical. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mondoweiss.net
Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City
In taking a stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its Zionist underpinnings while running for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani is situating himself within a historical lineage of anti-Zionis...
mondoweiss.net
September 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My new article in #mondoweiss situating #Mamdani in relation to anti-Zionism in the Arabic-speaking and Jewish communities of 1920s NYC. Although the journal labels it an opinion piece, it is almost entirely historical. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mondoweiss.net
On the worst days, it murmurates,
small hurts becoming one writhing mass
blocking out the sun, looming and shitting
on the windshield of your new car.
Yes, grief is a strange bird indeed.
www.gothamliterature.nyc/content/grie...
small hurts becoming one writhing mass
blocking out the sun, looming and shitting
on the windshield of your new car.
Yes, grief is a strange bird indeed.
www.gothamliterature.nyc/content/grie...
September 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
On the worst days, it murmurates,
small hurts becoming one writhing mass
blocking out the sun, looming and shitting
on the windshield of your new car.
Yes, grief is a strange bird indeed.
www.gothamliterature.nyc/content/grie...
small hurts becoming one writhing mass
blocking out the sun, looming and shitting
on the windshield of your new car.
Yes, grief is a strange bird indeed.
www.gothamliterature.nyc/content/grie...
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Love all the Bi+ anthologies releasing today! 💙📚 🌈💜 🌈📚
It's a big day: Bi+ Visibility Day! Check out these three anthologies, which all release TODAY.
💗Bi All Accounts, ed. Bailey Merlin
💜Best Bi Erotica of the Year 2, ed. Christian Pan
💙Bi the Way, I Love You (proceeds support @biprideuk.bsky.social & Rainbow Railroad)
#bisexual #biweek #bisky #🌈💜
💗Bi All Accounts, ed. Bailey Merlin
💜Best Bi Erotica of the Year 2, ed. Christian Pan
💙Bi the Way, I Love You (proceeds support @biprideuk.bsky.social & Rainbow Railroad)
#bisexual #biweek #bisky #🌈💜
September 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Love all the Bi+ anthologies releasing today! 💙📚 🌈💜 🌈📚
It's a big day: Bi+ Visibility Day! Check out these three anthologies, which all release TODAY.
💗Bi All Accounts, ed. Bailey Merlin
💜Best Bi Erotica of the Year 2, ed. Christian Pan
💙Bi the Way, I Love You (proceeds support @biprideuk.bsky.social & Rainbow Railroad)
#bisexual #biweek #bisky #🌈💜
💗Bi All Accounts, ed. Bailey Merlin
💜Best Bi Erotica of the Year 2, ed. Christian Pan
💙Bi the Way, I Love You (proceeds support @biprideuk.bsky.social & Rainbow Railroad)
#bisexual #biweek #bisky #🌈💜
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It's a big day: Bi+ Visibility Day! Check out these three anthologies, which all release TODAY.
💗Bi All Accounts, ed. Bailey Merlin
💜Best Bi Erotica of the Year 2, ed. Christian Pan
💙Bi the Way, I Love You (proceeds support @biprideuk.bsky.social & Rainbow Railroad)
#bisexual #biweek #bisky #🌈💜
💗Bi All Accounts, ed. Bailey Merlin
💜Best Bi Erotica of the Year 2, ed. Christian Pan
💙Bi the Way, I Love You (proceeds support @biprideuk.bsky.social & Rainbow Railroad)
#bisexual #biweek #bisky #🌈💜
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Happy Bisexual Awareness Week to all our Bi and Pan siblings! We see you and we love you! ❤️💜💙
#csplgbtqia #biweek
@thecsp.bsky.social @thecspstudents.bsky.social
(NB third slide accounts to follow are on Instagram)
#csplgbtqia #biweek
@thecsp.bsky.social @thecspstudents.bsky.social
(NB third slide accounts to follow are on Instagram)
September 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy Bisexual Awareness Week to all our Bi and Pan siblings! We see you and we love you! ❤️💜💙
#csplgbtqia #biweek
@thecsp.bsky.social @thecspstudents.bsky.social
(NB third slide accounts to follow are on Instagram)
#csplgbtqia #biweek
@thecsp.bsky.social @thecspstudents.bsky.social
(NB third slide accounts to follow are on Instagram)
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Eeeeee! Such a delightfully weird month with not one - but two - stories being published. Can't wait to review this book! #booksky #authorsky
September 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Eeeeee! Such a delightfully weird month with not one - but two - stories being published. Can't wait to review this book! #booksky #authorsky
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Having stories in 2 bisexual anthologies coming out on the same day (Sept 23rd, Celebrating Bi+ Visibility Day!) feels like a personal Barbenheimer.
A Bi-benheimer, if you will.
Links for both on my homepage: www.cozydubois.com/
🌈💜 💙📚 🌈📚
A Bi-benheimer, if you will.
Links for both on my homepage: www.cozydubois.com/
🌈💜 💙📚 🌈📚
August 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Having stories in 2 bisexual anthologies coming out on the same day (Sept 23rd, Celebrating Bi+ Visibility Day!) feels like a personal Barbenheimer.
A Bi-benheimer, if you will.
Links for both on my homepage: www.cozydubois.com/
🌈💜 💙📚 🌈📚
A Bi-benheimer, if you will.
Links for both on my homepage: www.cozydubois.com/
🌈💜 💙📚 🌈📚