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Laura Cushing

writings and ramblings

Created on 2000-09-21 22:14:41 (#16401), last updated 2009-11-04

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Name:L(aura) Cushing
Birthdate:1970-06-13
Location:Williamstown, New Jersey, United States
Website:Laura Cushing Dot Com

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Join us at [info]charloft for character development prompts daily.

Read my short story collection at [info]michael_malone and my 2006 novel at [info]tequila_sunset! You can read my 2007 and 2008 attempts (didn't finish) in [info]whatsimonsaid and [info]heckromancy (You must join communities to read as they are friends only). If you would like to see some of my current short/fiction projects, check out the journals of [info]heil_hans and [info]vavarner


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Author of Soundtrackingmusic column!

You can also read more of my work on Gather at angelauric.gather.com


Author website
http://www.lauracushing.com

My Space
http://www.myspace.com/lauracushing

Snail Mail:
Laura Cushing
PO Box 141
Newtonville, NJ 08346-0141

Urbis
Check out some of my work in My Urbis Portfolio.

Author of:
Roadside Stands (poetry chapbook)
Staying Golden (poetry chapbook)
Michael's Story (short story series)
Tequila Sunset (novel)

Former writer for:
Gather.com Music
Check out my column, Soundtracking.

Former writer for:
The Midnight Hurrah
A music magazine with interviews, reviews, and more!
Check it here



Laura Cushing has been published in the following:

Michael-Stories
Mudo has been published in the Santa Clara Review
California People won a 100 dollar short story prize from Life for Change.
Dancing has been published in It Takes All Kinds
Playing Scrabble has been published in It Takes All Kinds
Feliz Cumpleanos has been published in It Takes All Kinds


Other Stories
Shades of Grey (excerpt) has been published in Electric Mandolin
Ask the Jersey Devil has been published in Electric Mandolin
Assorted shorts & series have been published by Neopets.com
Matty Be Good has been published in It Takes All Kinds
Killing Daddy has been published in it Takes All Kinds
Various site-specific stories for Neopets.com

Poems
Apple of Her Eye has been published in Populist Art
Streetcorner Dancing has been published in Populist Art
Agnostic has been published in It Takes All Kinds
Chains has been published in Caravan
Poem? has been published in Electric Mandolin
18,000 Miles has been published in The Inferno
Those Met Briefly has been published in Plain Spoke
Untelevised will be published by Secret Press USA (anthology)

Non-Fiction
Interview - Terami Hirsch has been published in The Midnight Hurrah
Interview - The Watson Twins has been published in The Midnight Hurrah
Interview - Blake Sennett has been published in The Midnight Hurrah
Interview - Frank Hoier has been published in The Midnight Hurrah
Interview - Adam of The 88 has been published in The Midnight Hurrah
Interview - Michael Runion has been published in The Midnight Hurrah
Interview- Yellow Bird Project has been published in Soundtracking
Interview- Adam Merin of The 88 has been published in Soundtracking
Interview - Pierre de Reeder of Rilo Kiley has been published in Soundtracking
Interview- Daniel Brummel and Star Wick of Ozma has been published in Soundtracking
Contributor - Book - It's Never Too Late to Be a Buffy Fan (Kiss Me Jane productions)
Neomania! article on Neopets.com for Themestream
Newsletter content for Rilo Kiley dot com
Newsletter content for Interpol
Contributor - Book - Live Journal 10th Anniversary (The Terrorist In My Backyard)

Comics
Title and Author - has been published in Caravan
Snail's Pace - has been published in Caravan
Snail's Pace - has been published in It Takes All Kinds
Michael's Story Monsters- published by Dandelion Studios
Michael's Story Sit and Spin - published by Dandelion Stuidos

Chapbooks:
Roadside Stands - Tiny Piney Press
Staying Golden - Tiny Piney Press

Other Work
I do / have done website content/maintaining, myspace work, newsletter writing, graphics work, etc. for the following:

Ozma
Rilo Kiley
The Elected
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
Interpol
Terami Hirsch
Annie Stela
3-D Management
Daniel Brummel
Ryen Slegr
TGB
Eben Brooks

They're all great bands - so check them out!

Poetry Reading
I have done feature shows at the following venues -

Well Fed Artist Gallery , Philadelphia PA

Brenner's Brew , Bridgeton NJ

Poetry Across Cultures, Williamstown NJ

Eleven East Cafe, Glassboro NJ

Mid-Altanitc Spoken Word Festival , Philadelphia PA

Main Street Cyber Cafe, Glassboro NJ

Beantowne Gormet, Allendale NJ

Cherry Hill Library, Cherry Hill NJ

Sommerdale Library, Sommerdale NJ (filmed for local tv)


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1930s, adventures, ancient cultures, animals, anti-furry, anti-hate, anti-netspeak, anti-slut, anti-stupid, antique books, antique bottles, arcane roleplayers consortium, archeology, aus, author, being a band lackey, being socially unacceptable, blake sennett, blood!, bloody awful poetry, board games, buddhism, card games, cats, characters, charloft, chinese food, coloring, comedy, computer games, computers, concerts, crafts, crochet, daniel brummel, decapitation, demons, dice games, documentaries, drawing, dreamworld, egypt, evolution, fiction, fidelity, firefly, flowers, free verse, freelance writing, friends, games, gather, gather music, graphics, graveyards, greetings in braille, heaven and hell, hermit crabs, history, hogan's heroes, houseplants, human nature, indiana jones, intellectual musicians, internet, jason boesel, jazz, jenny lewis, joe jackson, kids, lab arc, lab arc designs, labarc, left-handed engineers from marz, lost souls, medieval, michael, michael czajak, michael malone, michael runion, michael's story, mike bloom, monkeys, monogamy, monty python, mp3s, music, my family, my house, mythology, natural selection, neva dinova, newsletters, nintendo ds, novel writing, original writing, ozma, performance poetry, pierre de reeder, pissing people off, plays, poems, poetry, postcards, ranting, reading, rilo kiley, road to el dorado, roleplaying, romance, rpgs, santeria, scrabble, serenity, short stories, sims 3, singing, soulmates, soundtracking, south park, spoken word, steak, steak sandwiches, steve and ghost, stuffed animals, swords, tarot cards, tequila sunset, terami hirsch, the big lebowski, the elected, the sims 3, time travel, travel, trivia, undead things, v, vampires, vonnegut, website design, weird al, weirdness, what simon said, world creation, world domination, world war two, writing, writing exercises, writing poetry, wwii

External Services:

AIMLab Arc DesignsAIM status

Schools:

Cumberland County College - Vineland, NJ
St. Joseph's High School - Hammonton, NJ (1984 - 1988)
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