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Lauren Davis

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2 months

@fklein907 That poor camp counselor practicing in front of the mirror how they are going to approach you with love and openness.

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2 months

Unpopular opinion: The quality of editing in books by major publishers is deteriorating at a rapid speed.

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3 months

Are we watching the debate or are we protecting our mental health tonight?

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5 years

Here are my unsolicited holiday opinions: 1) It's unnecessary to ask why someone declines alcohol. 2) Let the introverts & emotionally tired rest. 3) You don't have to visit that abuser, family or not. 4) Books are perfect gifts. There's a book out there for everyone.

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By the way, I don't think this is on editors. At all. I think this is on budget cuts.

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3 years

Writers, I want to see your websites. Link me!

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3 years

I work as a bookseller. As soon as someone passes away, their books sell out. This is a natural reaction, and it's wonderful. But what if we read authors while they are still with us?

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1 year

Now that I've finished Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro do I read Interview with the Vampire just to reset my brain? Like, how do I recover after a book like that?

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1 year

@MegStEsprit They're not wrong.

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1 year

My first pot pie. Please clap.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Will non-poets ever understand how much time and angst we put into "the" versus "a"?

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Hi. Let's lift up lit journals that are not vile. Tell me your favorites.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Okay editors. I'm putting together my outline for my workshop on submitting work to literary journals. What are your pet peeves? What do you wish writers knew? (🤍 editors.)

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Lauren Davis

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1 year

The farm that is hosting our poetry reading tomorrow just told me they are putting out some of the goats for ambiance. 🐐

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Teach living poets.

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Lauren Davis

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6 months

"Wild Geese" saved my life.

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Lauren Davis

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8 months

Ya'll, it is wild out there. They're going to charge an undisclosed amount if you don't withdraw a poem quickly enough.

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3 years

Writers: Don't forget, your obsessions are a gift.

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5 months

$55,000 in New York City.

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

How do you format your em dashes? word—word word — word word--word

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Lauren Davis

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6 years

Please post your relationship to @submittable with a GIF. I'll start.

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Lauren Davis

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5 years

Yesterday I hit 100 rejections for the year. For me, this is an accomplishment. It means I am putting myself out there. I am taking chances. I am allowing the work to find its home, rather than deciding for it.

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5 months

Cover reveal! Isn't she beautiful?

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

If you talk to someone with a chronic pain disorder, watch out. They'll have the depth of knowledge and vocabulary of a doctor. Please don't suggest yoga.

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Lauren Davis

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6 months

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. - Mary Oliver

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Lauren Davis

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1 year

Poet math is subtract one comma, add one em dash, subtract the em dash, subtract all punctuation, put a moon in it.

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Lauren Davis

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11 months

It's almost Thanksgiving! Everyone practice your answers to, "When will your book be out?" and "What is your book about?" and "Are you still writing?"

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Lauren Davis

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8 months

This is your friendly reminder that not everything you write needs to be published. We all have blind spots. Find a writing friend who loves and respects you enough to say, "This isn't it. Let's get cheeseburgers and talk about your moral shortcomings."

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

The proof copy is here!

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Lauren Davis

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: No longer submitting to journals that add "keep writing" to rejection letters. Dear Architect, Though we're declining your bid, keep building buildings. Dear Surgeon, Though we won't be hiring you, keep surgerying. Dear Chef, Not today, but keep cooking!

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” ― Mary Oliver

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Lauren Davis

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6 years

@GaryLineker @ErinnaMettler I am so embarrassed to be American.

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Lauren Davis

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2 months

@Pete694200 @amyalkon Yes, which is why the investment from publishers is so important. But alas.

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Lauren Davis

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8 months

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” ― Flannery O'Connor

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

COVER REVEAL! Someone pinch me!

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Lauren Davis

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9 months

Unpopular opinion: "Commercial" poetry is good for all poetry. We lament that no one reads poetry. Then we turn up our noses at poetry that we consider lowbrow. Bring on the "lowbrow." It's an open doorway for new readers. Elitist attitudes ultimately do more harm than good.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

@Not_the_Bee Not just a pimp. He trafficked children for prostitution. United States v. Andre Lavon Taylor, 239 F.3d 994 (9th Cir. 2001) Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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Lauren Davis

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1 year

Can we please stop using "readable" in blurbs? I would hope a book is readable.

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

“Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.” ― Marvin Bell

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Since the pandemic, I've been unable to read books. A friend sent me an article about why people are having a hard time reading right now. It went unread, too. This is the year of no books, and the year of not understanding why no books. But I'm not the only one, right?

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Lauren Davis

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2 years

How am I supposed to get work done when a doe is trying to make friends with my cat?

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Lauren Davis

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17 days

Officially hit 50 rejections for the year. 🎉🎉🎉

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Lauren Davis

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1 year

I still think about the kid who came in looking for book suggestions and when I asked if he liked poetry he said, "I'm open to it." May he rule the world one day.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

I said I wouldn't make it to 20. But someone turned 35 today.

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Lauren Davis

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10 months

Friends, I have news. 🩶

Whittle Micro-Press

@whittlemicro

10 months

Whittle is pleased to announce the first acceptance of our open submissions: Lauren Davis’ ( @WriterLDavis ) Sivvy will be available in summer 2024. You can read her poem “Jade,” which appears in the most recent @CrabCreekRev . Our submissions are always open and free!

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Tell us what it's like to release a book in 2020. And for the love of God, link to your book. We want to celebrate you!

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

I am taking a very scientific survey. Do ya'll wear masks when you take walks outdoors?

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Does anyone else feel like they are living in a different reality where there's a pandemic going on, killing people of all ages and health conditions? Because everywhere I look folks are taking trips and going out for ice cream. I swear this is the Twilight Zone.

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Lauren Davis

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1 year

personalized rejection letter from a dream mag 🤍🖤🐦‍⬛

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

I got a tiered rejection from The New Yorker, so you can find me in the Maldives throwing gold.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

I just got a tiered rejection from The New Yorker so you can find me on my own tropical island sipping virgin daiquiris and chatting with birds of paradise.

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Lauren Davis

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2 months

@augustastories And underpaid. I absolutely agree.

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Lauren Davis

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4 months

@LMBaileyWrites You have won life.

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Lauren Davis

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2 months

New Yorker rejection after two years of waiting. 😂

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

I'm going to teach a workshop called "Sex and the Poet." Link me to your favorite sex poems, whatever "sex" means to you. The good, the bad, the ugly. (Appropriate trigger warnings appreciated.)

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Just withdrew my application for Poetry Reader from Poetry Magazine.

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Lauren Davis

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9 months

Literary Journal Red/Yellow Flags: - no masthead - reading fees over $5 for non-contest subs - more than two typos in sub guidelines - unregulated comment sections - running a contest, but haven't put up a new issue in more than 6 months

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Lauren Davis

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5 years

Friends, thank you. You've helped bring me here, to this moment, where I sign this contract from @PressFernwood for my first full-length collection, Home Beneath the Church.

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Lauren Davis

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5 years

Just a gentle reminder that the poetry community is small, and we need to lift each other up, not tear each other down.

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

This poem forever.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

No matter how you feel about Rupi Kaur, the fact that she's got a net worth of one million tells me people want poetry. They just may not know how to get it.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

I will never shut up about the moon.

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Lauren Davis

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5 years

How in God's name does anyone ever write a novel?

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

@SarahJaneHunti1 Good God. This is the definition of projection. Protect your writing. Protect your dream. Do not seek her opinion again. She's lost the privilege.

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Lauren Davis

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6 years

@Caissie I once told a male friend that an ex threatened to hit me. He said, "Give him a break. He didn't do it." Wha??? Friendship over.

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Lauren Davis

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1 year

Does placing holds at the library count as writing?

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

I completely understand submission fees but some of ya'll are starting to make me chuckle with this $20 stuff. We're unemployed.

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

New author photo?

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Lauren Davis

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1 year

Just saw another chapbook contest with a reading fee of $39.99. Payment, if you win, is ten copies.

Lauren Davis

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1 year

$32.50 fee for a chapbook contest. 😶

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Lauren Davis

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6 months

Write more. Read more.

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Lauren Davis

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7 months

I am looking for a couple of PDF files of poetry chapbooks to share with my workshop participants. But I don't want to violate copyrights. Does anyone have a good source for free and available chapbook PDFs? (I used BOAAT Press in the past but they are sadly no more.)

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

How many submissions do you have active on @submittable right now?

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Right before you check Submittable, are you ever like, "Why am I checking Submittable? It won't actually tell me anything." And then you check it then check it again.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

Three rejections today. It's cool.

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Lauren Davis

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5 years

Just a friendly reminder that it is an honor, a privilege to be a reader or editor for someone else's work. When we give feedback we are doing hard work, but we are also being granted a unique level of trust.

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.” ― Joan Didion

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Lauren Davis

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8 months

Just fyi, thanks to a suggestion, I've reported them to Writers Beware. And in the spirit of transparency, the journal is Auroras & Blossoms.

Welcome to Auroras & Blossoms! - Auroras & Blossoms

We live and breathe PoArtMo (Positive Actions Rally Thoughts & Momentum). We are inclusive and family-friendly. Join us! Latest Releases!

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Lauren Davis

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2 years

"I’ve realized that I can write from grief and I can write from love. I can even write from anger, but I don’t think I can write from fear. I think it’s probably the most silencing emotion: fear and anxiety." - @adalimon in @VanityFair #twitterpoetrybookclub

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Lauren Davis

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5 years

I've received some pretty hard rejections this month, so I've had to reach into my memory banks for those moments other writers encouraged and held me up. You never know the gift you are giving another when you show them love and support. Thank you, my community.

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Lauren Davis

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2 years

This poem by @JoseHernandezDz makes my eyes water.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

The day after Christmas do you eat cookies for breakfast, or do you eat cookies for breakfast?

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Lauren Davis

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1 year

@michaelwright50 @akatepockett It's abuse. It's theft. He: Stole her work. Lied. Ignored her boundaries in multiple ways. Discounted her point of view and feelings. Possibly permanently damaged her career.

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Lauren Davis

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3 months

$39.99 for a poetry chapbook reading fee?! For a contest that doesn't mention momentary payment, royalties, author copies, or a judge?! If you are new to submitting: This is not normal. Run.

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

What's the mental health plan for November 3rd?

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Lauren Davis

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4 years

You ever write a line that makes no sense, and you keep it anyways? Because I am keeping this line anyways.

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

What's the creepiest book you've ever read?

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Lauren Davis

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3 years

I am over the moon grateful and excited to be longlisted! 🖤

YesYes Books

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3 years

Huge thanks to everyone who submitted last year to our Open Reading Period in Fiction and thank you so much for your generous patience through the extra months it took us to carefully walk through the submissions. We are excited about this amazing Longlist!

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Lauren Davis

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4 months

💙Pub day is tomorrow!💙 Sivvy is a micro chapbook of erasures of Sylvia Plath's letters. Available exclusively as a PDF.

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Lauren Davis

@WriterLDavis

5 years

Heard a bookstore customer say, "Oh! I didn't know ___ wrote poetry. I'll just get a free book from him." Please don't ask this of writers in yr life. I bet that book took yrs for him to write, & at minimum, a year to publish. Also, last I checked, he needs food to survive.

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Lauren Davis

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2 years

Look who came into Imprint Bookstore yesterday! Thanks for stopping in @officialdonika and @melissafebos .