Writing By
Lauren Harkawik
Most recent:
• On the nuts and bolts of screenwriting (Catapult)
• A short story about someone who doesn't love Disney World as much as I do (CafeLit)
• On reporting about bears (Bearpacker Magazine)
• On short hair and identity -- print only (Salt Hill, 45)
• On the fascinating Madame Sherri and her husband Andre (Narratively, Hidden History)
Articles:
• On the nuts and bolts of screenwriting (Catapult)
• On the fascinating Madame Sherri and her husband Andre (Narratively, Hidden History)
• On the history of bread and butter pickles in America (The Takeout)
• On COVID-era "no guest"policies at OBGYN offices (PULP Magazine)
• On the dangers of homemade baby formula during coronavirus (The Deerfield Valley News)
• On plastic bag bans in the United States (Medium, Environment)
• On how writers affect the emotional load of parenting for mothers (Apparently)
• On reporting about the opioid crisis in rural America (Medium)
• On staying safe while traveling solo as a woman (Medium, Women)
Fiction:
• Lily Does Not Believe in Magic ( Short Fiction, CafeLit, July 2021)
• So Very Silently (Short Fiction, Goats Milk Magazine, July 2020)
• Joey Button (Short Fiction. New Reader Magazine, March 2020)
• That Marie (Short fiction. Sweet Tree Review Volume 3 Issue 3)
Essays:
• On parenting, the pandemic, and dinosaurs (The Cracker Barrel)
• On new beginnings (P.S. I Love You)
• On birth control mishaps and missing IUDs (PULP Magazine)
• On the shapes my marriage has taken (Turnpike Magazine)
• On things stranger men have said to me (Fearless She Wrote)
• On finding my place (The Cracker Barrel)
• On compassion (Written for the Brattleboro Area Compassion Committee, Published in The Brattleboro Reformer, July 2018)
• On luna moths (bears, and moving to Vermont) (The Cracker Barrel, Summer 2017)