Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize). Winner of Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Longlisted for PEN/Bingham Prize. DC based. laurendwoods.com
Lauren D. Woods
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Currently in Akron. It’s cool in that Midwestern way that property and land that doesn’t cost millions can actually be artistically remade by those other than corporate conglomerates. Or else that’s how it seems to me.
And finally please for the love don’t ever let your commercial potential or popularity be confused with your potential for art, they have never in history been the same thing.
if you’re doing it right, you’ll feel like you’re doing it wrong, and it might feel weird or lonely but build up your own intuition about how to make art serve life (not the other way around), and don’t forget to have fun with it!
A wonderful, thoughtful, dreamlike piece by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social ❤️
It’s the one-year anniversary of launching LitBox, my book vending machine. Read on for an important announcement about a second location + fundraising request. (If you’re on mobile, scroll down till you see the text.) thank you! www.litboxbooks.com/about-4
“Hey you know how it is! Someone gets close enough to see into our living room, we’re gonna come out and watch them back.” (Their house is faaaar away.)
Also: Hey, we don’t mind you being here, some people see the big church and they want to stop by… but you know, we could’ve left our German shepherd out, but we didn’t…” 😱
Had the creepiest experience when I had to pull over in very rural northwest PA today and was confronted by a man and his son… very Flannery O’Connor type rural folks threatening me in a none too subtle way behind an aww shucks demeanor…on the other hand, my next short story is going to write itself
I’ve proposed AWP panels many times over the years and have never been selected, so this year in Chicago, I’ll be giving my TED talk in a bar at a table over drinks. It’s going to go something like this. Fit your damn art into your own damn life any way that makes you feel something big, and
Looks like a great event at our local independent bookstore @peoplesbooktakoma.com on Thursday, May 28. Congrats @carabensonwriter.bsky.social on your book! You can see her in conversation with @marthaannetoll.bsky.social peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/armsfu...
