BOOKS
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A Writer’s Guide to Unlocking Your Story, Choosing a Publishing Path, and Honoring Your Creative Journey. Forthcoming Spring 2025, Forest Avenue Press. Pre-order link coming soon.
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As a firstborn son of a master craftsman, Henri Blanchard is expected to inherit the family barrel organ workshop, but he would prefer to make bobbin lace like his best friend Aimée. In an effort to put his misgivings aside and prove himself a worthy heir, he attempts dramatic feats that draw derision from the townsfolk and finally land him in jail, accused of murder. Threatened with the hangman’s noose, he is forced to flee the cozy village of Mireville—and discover a world beyond that may be big enough for even the rarest bird to find a nest. Suspenseful and heartwarming by turns, Laura Stanfill’s debut is a whimsical journey full of friendship, adventure, and self-discovery. FIND IT ON BOOKSHOP.
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Parenting, Grief, and Creativity During the Coronavirus Crisis, a zine, published by Microcosm. FIND IT HERE.
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This 2012 celebration of community, featuring interviews and micro essays by thirty Oregon authors, launched Forest Avenue Press. Edited by Laura Stanfill and printed on the Powell’s Espresso Book Machine. NOW OUT OF PRINT.
Selected Short Work
New and forthcoming.
“Break It, Crack It: Some Thoughts on Revision,” Cagibi, April 2024
Foreword, Moss-Covered Claws (Blue Cactus Press) by Jonah Barnett, reissued in fall 2023.
“The End,” an essay, Hippocampus Magazine
“Jam,” an essay, Vincent Brothers Review, print issue #24. Buy the issue here.
“Water Damage,” an essay, About Place Journal.
Allied Editors 5, a spoken-word essay on publishing, Monologging.
“Window Mail,” essay, Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, Issue 26, featuring disabled writers.
“Be Yourself and Sell More Books,” essay, Catapult’s Don’t Write Alone section, Money Week.
Recent.
“After 16 Months of Togetherness, What I Learned When I Was Finally Alone,” an essay, Shondaland.
Essay in Ink, the Hippocampus anthology on journalism.
Essay, “Summer Fairytale,” in And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing, a speculative parenting anthology forthcoming from Alternating Current Press and edited by Hannah Grieco.
Art, “Something Inside,” Detour Ahead.
Essay, “Breathing Lilacs,” published in Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of Covid-19, edited by Jennifer Haupt, published by Central Avenue, winner of the Washington State Book Award.
Past.
Essay, “Wind-up Girl,” Passengers Journal.
Essay in conversation with Beth Kephart, “The Writer, the Editor, and the Aftermath,” published in Big Other.
Poem, “There There” TAB: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics; nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Essay, “Within the Scope,” published February 2020 in The Rumpus; chosen by Longreads as an Editors’ Pick; named The Rumpus’s #2 most-read essay of 2020; nominated for Best American Essays.
Essay, “Soup on a Tray,” published Jan. 2020 in Eat, Darling, Eat.
Essay, “Dinnertime,” published Jan. 2020 in Stonecoast Journal.
Essay, “Birdsong in the Key of Brain Injury,” finalist for the Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction, published by Longridge Review, Oct. 2019.
Essay, “A Guide to Not Comparing Stalkers,” published in The Nasiona, July 2019.
Your Neurodiverse Friend #2: A zine by Microcosm, featuring one of Laura’s essays.
Short Story, “All This,” published in The Untold Gaze, edited by Gigi Little, featuring short works and paintings by fine artist Stephen O’Donnell, 2018.
