Welcome! Whether you looked for this site because you've read or seen something of mine and liked it, or you just stopped in for a visit, I'm glad you're here! — Laura P.S. For upcoming events (performances, readings, things I'm producing, etc.), check in at my blog or Facebook page!
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		While Laura has been, like many writers, a lifelong scribbler, it is only when she reached her mid-40s that she began to devote serious time to writing. Decades of experience as an editor and a writer of nonfiction, media releases, training documents, and public-relations materials had sharpened her technical skills, as well as exacerbating her yearning to be writing something else...something meaningful...something fun! Stories "Zerk and Me" forthcoming in Michael Moorcock's New Worlds Magazine "The Bicycle Rebellion" published on Daily Science Fiction, November 2011 (read it here) "Jimmy's Boys" honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest, third quarter, 2011 "An Ear for Home" published in the Eneit Press anthology Baggage, September 2010 "Turcotte's Battle" published in Wet Ink #19, July 2010; reprinted December 2011 on author Anna Tambour's web site (read it here) "Loving the Gorgon" published at Shades of Sentience, November 16, 2009 (read it here); Also published in their subsequent print anthology, Shades of Sentience (2010, available here) "The Name Thieves" published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #42 (October 2009); read it here "Piggy In a Pit" published in The Lifted Brow #5 (July 2009) "The Dancing Mice and the Giants of Flanders" published in the anthology Masques, March 2009 "The Futurist" published in Adbusters (issue 82, March 2009) "The Miner's Tale" published in the anthology Canterbury 2100, October 2008 (available here) "Mooncalf" commended in the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre Speculative Fiction/Fantasy Awards, August 2008 "I'm Too Loud" published in Antipodean SF, July 2008 (read it here) "The Salvation of the Ooze" awarded first place, Conflux 2007 Short-Story Competition (read it here) Plays and Libretti "The Box" and "The Second Chance" performed as part of Opera Prometheus's Promfest, November 2011 The Death of Albatross performed as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival, September 8-10, 2011 "Hold" performed as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival, September 2010 "Tiles in the Night" performed in the Gone in 60 Seconds international play festival, June 11, 2010, Halifax (UK) "Three Feet from Doom" performed in the Gone in 60 Seconds international play festival, June 5, 2009, Leeds (UK) "Hold" broadcast nationally by ABC Local Radio, January 2, 2009 "Real Shakespeare" premiered at Wollongong Workshop Theatre's 24-hour Theatre Event, June 2008 The Death of Albatross selected for the Merrigong Theatre Script Development Program, June 2008 "Don't Know Much" short-listed for the 2008 Sydney Short & Sweet festival "The Salad of Success" selected for Wollongong Workshop Theatre's Workshorts program, October-November 2007 "The Salad of Success" selected for BUGfest, October 2007 "Foul Play in Dapto" premiered by TheatreMax Studio, December 9, 2006 Poems The poem cycle "Keep Trying" performed as part of Opera Prometheus's Promfest, November 2011 "Lent", "The Transit of Venus", "Thirroul Beach", "Child of Promise", "Four Carols", "Earth and Space", "A Full Moon Tonight and I Am Awake on the Train", "To the Holy Spirit" set for choral and chamber groups and performed at various venues (from 1998 to present) "Many Colors" published in the Washington Post, September 21, 2004 New flash fiction, scripts, and poems posted at irregular intervals at the Dry as the Remainder Biscuit blog. Other Cafe Poet, selected and sponsored by Australian Poetry and Yours and Owls Cafe, first half of 2012. Producer, Outlandish Voices (the podcast): stories from the Wollongong area's established and emerging writers. See the podcast's Facebook page for more information and submission guidelines; see this page to download stories. Laura also teaches workshops on writing science fiction and fantasy; contact her to find out more. To keep up with the oscillations of Laura's writing career (as well as peek at the random musings that spill out from her brain from time to time), check out her blog, A motley coat. You can also find her at her Facebook page: To contact Laura, email i n f o -at- l a u r a g o o d i n . c o m, or use this handy form.