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Writing the Journey

by Lawrence Coates | Feb 23, 2018 | Uncategorized

My pedagogy article, “Writing the Journey,” has just been published in the AWP Chronicle Online.

Spotlight on the Arts — September 7 at the Wolfe Center for the Performing Arts

by Lawrence Coates | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized

I’ll be discussing Creative Writing and the importance of place in a presentation entitled “Temporary Landscapes” on September 7, seven p.m., at the Wolfe Center for the Performing Arts at Bowling Green State University.

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Conference

by Lawrence Coates | Apr 7, 2017 | Uncategorized

I’m giving a paper at ASLE’s Biennial Conference this June at Wayne State University in Detroit.  And my books will be featured at the Author’s Reception on Wednesday evening, June 21, at 8 pm.

California History Center

by Lawrence Coates | Feb 13, 2017 | Uncategorized

I’m going to give a presentation at the California History Center on March 9 at 4 pm, discussing suburban space, American culture, and my novel The Goodbye House....

Book Group Guide for The Garden of the World

by Lawrence Coates | Dec 13, 2016 | Uncategorized

I just posted a Book Group Guide for The Garden of the World.  
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About Lawrence

Lawrence Coates is the author of five books, most recently The Goodbye House. His work has been recognized with the Western States Book Award in Fiction, the Donald Barthelme Prize in Short Prose, the Miami University Press Novella Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. He currently teaches in the MFA program at Bowling Green State University.

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Lawrence Coates has published five books, all set in Northern California. Most recently, he published The Goodbye House, a novel set amid the housing tracts of San Jose in the aftermath of the first dot com bust and the attacks of 9/11. He also recently published a novella, Camp Olvido, set in a labor camp in California’s Great Central Valley.

His work has been recognized with the Western States Book Award in Fiction, the Donald Barthelme Prize in Short Prose, the Miami University Press Novella Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Bowling Green State University.

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