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The Game – a Winner!

  • Posted on July 3, 2025
  • by Lauren

I won 2nd place in Women on Writing’s Creative Nonfiction Contest. Thanks, team! Thanks, Miss Phil!  Check it out: The Game

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The Sunlight Press

  • Posted on June 6, 2025June 6, 2025
  • by Lauren

This wonderful magazine published one of my photos: Shades of Summer

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The Kicker

  • Posted on September 8, 2024July 6, 2025
  • by Lauren

This piece began as a 100-word story that got a warm rejection from Five Minute Lit: While “Five Months” wasn’t ultimately accepted, our readers had good words for the piece, including “well written” and “beautiful…

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Bereavement Birds

  • Posted on August 30, 2024
  • by Lauren

Check out this artwork at What’s Your Grief: WYG Bereavement Birds

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Have Book – Will Travel

  • Posted on August 26, 2024
  • by Lauren

Check out this collage I created with stamps my late father-in-law collected as a child: 805 Lit + Art

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Summer ART

  • Posted on June 25, 2024August 11, 2024
  • by Lauren

I collaged some photos from hikes in Maine and here in the Adirondacks, adding some watercolors. Rocks are cool. Here are two magazines that took my artwork in June:  Libre Lit & Aureation Zine: Growing issue…

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Kill Your Dragons

  • Posted on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024
  • by Lauren

I found this magazine after looking through the contributors’ bios in the Awfully Hilarious Period Pieces anthology. Thank you, Lindsey Harrington!  Dragons, in some form, was rejected a dozen times before the final draft was…

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Some Facts About Cows

  • Posted on March 1, 2024April 21, 2024
  • by Lauren

Many of my essays about grief, loss, and healing are tied up with my home, an old barn, in the mountains of upstate New York. Gotham Writers Workshop  paired this piece with artwork by Nora…

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Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces

  • Posted on February 24, 2024April 14, 2024
  • by Lauren

  This project has launched! The e-book is available and you can order the paperback copy: Awfully Hilarious Project page My mom is the star in the essay featured in this anthology. She guides me…

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(Re)published: Keep Going

  • Posted on December 9, 2023April 14, 2024
  • by Lauren

In case you missed this one the first time, you can catch it in SugarSugarSalt Magazine. The real market: Cedar Run in Keene, New York. Visit! And, of course, North Country School makes an appearance.…

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