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 https://lawrencecoates.com/
My admiration of García Márquez shows in this short essay. But my love of the novella itself began with reading Faulkner's "The Bear." #novella 📚💙📚 #writingcommunity
Lawrence Coates
Winner of the 2026 Fugere Book Prize In the early 1980s, when I was twenty-five, I picked up a copy of the Los Angeles Times near the docks in San Diego. I was working as a third mate aboard …
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Here's the official announcement from Regal House. I wrote a little memoir about first reading Gabriel García Márquez to go with the announcement.
Regal House Publishing@regalhouse.bsky.social · 4d agoWe are delighted to announce the winner of our 2026 Fugere Book Prize For Finely Crafted Novellas: Lawrence Coates for BOOM. Congratulations, Lawrence! #novella regalhousepublishing.com/lawrence-coa...
I've won the Fugere Book Prize. My novella will be published by Regal House Press in 2028.
Lawrence Coates
Winner of the 2026 Fugere Book Prize In the early 1980s, when I was twenty-five, I picked up a copy of the Los Angeles Times near the docks in San Diego. I was working as a third mate aboard …
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My novella, "Boom," is longlisted for the Fugere Book Prize. Fingers crossed! 💙📚💙 #booksky
2026 Fugere Book Prize longlist
We are delighted to announce our 2026 longlist for the 2026 Fugere Book Prize. Congrats to all longlisted authors and heartfelt thanks to all who submitted to our novella prize this year! A Great W…
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This is a new book award, I think. Congrats to all the finalists. #booksky 💙📚💙
Kirkus Reveals Finalists for the 2026 Indie Awards | Kirkus Reviews
The winners of the inaugural prizes, awarded in eight categories, will be announced in August.
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Congratulations to Kelly Link! A favorite writer of mine. 📚💙📚 #booksky
Kelly Link to Receive the 2026 Deborah Pease Prize
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Congratulations to all the writers shortlisted! #booksky 📚💙📚
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · last mo.We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
Congratulations to the writers shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize. 💙📚💙 #booksky www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26?ss_s...
Ursula K. Le Guin — 2026 Prize for Fiction
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Congratulations to the Firecracker Award Winners. Long live indies! #booksky 💙📚💙
Announcing the Winners of the 2026 Firecracker Awards - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
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Thanks to @michellerichmond.bsky.social for this shoutout of my #novella Camp Olvido. Michelle offers some great insight into publishing with university presses. #booksky 📚💙📚
Submitting Your Novel or Story Collection to a University Press
A Proven Path to Publishing Literary Fiction and Debut Story Collections
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Interested to read that Yiyun Li named The Fountain Overflows, by Rebecca West, her favorite novel. 💙📚💙 #booksky www.nyrb.com/products/the...
The Fountain Overflows
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father’s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal an...
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It's telling that Variety doesn't mention which translation is being read. They don't care. I'd guess they chose one already in the public domain, not the Emily Wilson translation. #booksky
Alex Slater@abuckslater.bsky.social · last mo.I liked the essay on the #novella, but I was disappointed it didn't mention @miamioh-press.bsky.social . Miami University Press has been publishing novellas for twenty years, including my book Camp Olvido. #booksky 💙📚💙
Poets & Writers@pw.org · last mo.#ICYMI: Our new P&W issue includes essays on the novella as a legit literary form, the role of time and place in the literary imagination, and how to build a micro-community at a writers conference. PLUS: a special section on how to begin your agent search. Dive in @ at.pw.org/JulyAugust2026
I spent the morning reading the last fifty pages of Absalom, Absalom. #booksky 📚💙📚
#booksky 📚💙📚 Just spotted this fellowship for "an emerging writer from an underrepresented community." Deadline July 6. fsgfellowship.com
FSG Fellowship
The FSG Writer’s Fellowship is a yearlong program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing.
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Of course, part of me says "So that's why Cheetos are awesome!"
Since "Book Community" is hot on Bluesky, I'd just like to say hello to my people.
A fine review of my pal Josh Weil’s new novel in the @nytimes.com #booksky 📚💙📚 Gift article.
Go West, Young Neurodivergent Man
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. —— Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh. -Philip Larkin, The Trees #everynightapoem As always, for the end of May.
Congratulations to all the finalists! I hear that the prize is a lottery stone, which is awesome. #booksky 💙📚💙
Nominees Announced for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards – The Shirley Jackson Awards
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Hey pals! I just ordered a book via Bookshop.org, which is not only *not* Amazon, it actually supports whatever local indie book store you choose - and oh hey! What's this I have here? Why, it's a refer-a-friend code so you can save 20% on your own order! Yay books! 🎉 refer.bookshop.org/wzh2gw22
Congratulations to all the finalists for the @clmporg.bsky.social Firecracker Awards. Long live Independent Publishing! #booksky 💙📚💙 www.clmp.org/programs-opp...
Firecracker Awards - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
Celebrating the Best of Independently Published Literature The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature are given annually to celebrate the books and magazines that make a signif...
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I'm a longtime supporting member of WGTE, in Toledo. #NPR
Danielle Kurtzleben@titonka.bsky.social · 3mo ago11 years at NPR today. Which feels like a wild statement. TBH it *is* a wild statement. But anyway donate please. Buyouts and layoffs are coming. And the newsroom has MANY great people in it. Okay thank you.
