Lauran Strait
"The idea is to ~ Maya Angelou "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." ~ Robert Benchley "It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write." ~ Sinclair Lewis "Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself." ~ Harlan Ellison Professional Affiliations President of the Board of Directors of the Hampton Roads Writers Board Member of The Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads Member of James River Writers Member of Virginia Beach Writers Member of the Zoetrope Writing Community Member of the Edit Red Writing Community Member of the Gather.com Writing Community Member of the Helium Writing Community Member of the Smith Magazine Writing Community Member of the Six Sentences Writing Community Member of the Thisisbyus.us Writing Community Member of the TalentDataBase.com Writing Community Employment Freelance writer, editor, and writing coach Community Education instructor at the Virginia Beach Adult Learning Center, facilitating three writing workshops--16 week semester in the Spring and 12 week semester in the Fall--and 8 week short story classes. Managing editor of the column section at Moondance Magazine Edited for the Sci-fi print magazine NFG The Gator Springs Gazette. Lauran in the news The Mace and Crown (Newspaper of Old Dominion University) --September 9, 2009MetroActive --February 11, 2009Wowzio --January 29, 2009RightyBlogs.com --January 29, 2009Talking Points Memo --Donal's Blog--January 26, 2009Molly Knight --January 26, 2009The Atlantic's The Daily Dish LA Times Cocktail Conversations Port Folio Weekly Smith Magazine Virginian Pilot Virginian Pilot Storyglossia Lauran's writing or interviews about HRW featured on the following RADIO PROGRAMS: The Kathy Lewis Show on WHRO--May 2008NPR's literary show, Word By Word --July 2003 LAURAN'S WORK IS FORTHCOMING: NOTHING AT THIS TIME LAURAN'S PRINT AND ONLINE WORK HAS APPEARED IN: January 2009 in Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure (Paperback) MICROFICTION Check out the youtube video about it that features Lauran's story: READ THE LA TIMES STORY ABOUT THE BOOK. LAURAN'S PIECE IS SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED --LA Times The Linnet's Wings MICROFICTION The Linnet's Wings MICROFICTION OCTOBER 2008 in Fiction Flyer MICROFICTION --(LICKED BY MARS ) Pen Pricks MICROFICTION Les Bonnes Fees Juvenile fiction Six Sentences MICROFICTION Heavyglow FLASH FICTION Pequin FLASH FICTION -- (Warning Adult content--visit at your own risk)Six Sentences MICROFICTION Tuesday Shorts FLASH FICTION --(Warning Adult content--visit at your own risk)Down in the Cellar FLASH FICTION Tiny Lights—a flash in the pan FLASH FICTION Bewildering Stories
Speculative Short Story Salome Magazine CNF Quiction --Apr 6, 2006Quiction --Mar 20, 2006The Angler --February 7, 2006Quiction --Dec 4, 2005Quiction --Oct 3, 2005
Moondance Magazine Reading Divas --July 12, 2004The Gator Springs Gazette --July 2004The Green Tricycle Somewhat.org --May, 31 2004LongStoryShort The Gator Springs Gazette --May 2004Edifice Wrecked Insolent Rudder NFG Magazine Monkey Bicycle The Gator Springs Gazette --December 1, 2003A Woman of a Certain Age --Oct 26, 2003Retrozine --October 2003The Gator Springs Gazette --October 2003The Copperfield Review Moondance Magazine The Gator Springs Gazette --April 2003The Whistling Shade Literary Review Atomic Petals --March 2003Dog-eared --2002Tidewater Women --2002 (?)The Virginian Pilot 's Life by the slice--2002Lauran's writing appears in the following ANTHOLOGIES: Better Non Sequitur's See You Next Tuesday Random House’s Knitlit the Third—We Spin More Yarns The Gator Springs Gazette 's Chrismas Quilt --December 2003CONTESTS Top 5 finish (out of thousands of entries) in Smith Mag's Life in Bites contest Participant and winner in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)--November 30, 2006 1st place in NFG Honorable Mention for fiction at CNU Writer's conference--March 27, 2004 Lauran has completed four novels
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)--November 30, 2006
