One of the readers at a marathon reading of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
My name is Gabi Coatsworth, and I’m an award-winning writer who loves to support my fellow writers and storytellers. My work has been published in a new anthology: Imagining Monsters, and Then to Now, A Time Travel Anthology, also in Tangerine Tango: Women Writers Share Slices of Life and in many print and online journals.
I’m currently looking to publish my memoir, and writing a novel in the women’s fiction genre.
UPCOMING APPEARANCES
I run two Meetups for writers in Connecticut, WritersMic, an open mic evening, and the Westport Writers’ Rendezvous, a monthly get-together.
On January 18, from 11-1:00pm, yours truly will be joining Fairfield University’s MFA Director and author Sonya Huber (Pain Woman Takes Your Keys) and incoming MFA director, author and Fairfield University English professor Carol Ann Davis at the Pequot Library in Southport CT. We’ll be chatting about the highs and lows of the publishing world, and answering your questions. Details here. Bring lunch if you like
I was at the Plumb Library in Shelton on November 18, as the featured speaker for the monthly meeting of SW CAPA, the SW chapter of the Connecticut Authors & Publishers Association. I gave a talk about Overcoming the Obstacles to Getting your Work Published, and you can watch the YouTube video here. Go to minute 16, to avoid listening to audience chitchat before the main event!
The Write Connexion won 2019 awards from the CT Press Club and the NFPW, and is dedicated to anything useful I find for writers, some of it local, and some of it of more general interest. I interview writers, give you useful links for writers’ info around the web, and generally help you connect with anything which will help you write more, better or at all!
If you’d like to see my personal blog, it’s at www.GabiCoatsworth.wordpress.com
Professional affiliations:
The Authors’ Guild, CT Authors and Publishers Association, CT Press Club, CTRWA, NFPW, Romance Writers of America, and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association
Connect on social media:
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Twitter: @GabiCoatsworth
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I’ve nominated you for the “Blog of the Year” Award. To see the nomination, visit the post: anotherlovelyday.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/thank-you/. I hope you have a wonderful new year!
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Thank you so much! Happy new year to you too.
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Hi Gabi,
Your short story excerpt is beautiful – lovely language and a comfortable nostalgic sense that soothes. I think I see Miggs Burrough’s “What If?” in the pile of books in the picture above, so we share him as a friend as well as Tricia! We met at the Pitchapalooza…All the best, Lea
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I like your excerpt as well. I stopped by because you visited me, and I always like to return the favor. And lo, here I found another writer. How much fun is that? I’ll look forward to more visits in the future both directions. 🙂 Marsha 🙂
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Hi, Gaby, having a rummage in your website, prior to returning your ‘follow’ on Twitter. Loving your blogs, especially as they’re diverse, and not formulaic! I think we’ve all become a little jaded by those writers who prattle incessantly about their books without ever leaving their narcissistic bubble! Great stuff, Gabi, looking forward to more of the same! Kevin Ansbro.
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Thanks, Kevin – I appreciate that…
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Very interesting story. amazing language and a comfortable nostalgic sense that soothes. Thanks for sharing
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Oooh, what a pleasure to find you!
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Thanks, likewise!
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Came here via GJ Stevens and your author interview, which was wonderful–now following!
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Thank you!
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Dropped by to say hi. Didn’t realize you had so many irons in the fire. And I thought I had the market cornered on busy!
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