2023
June
3 I will be reading from In Light’s Shadow: A Fairy Tale at Baine’s Books and Coffee in Scottsville, VA, at 2 p.m. Come, get a coffee, and/or a muffin, and listen to the story! Publicity is forthcoming. Please check out the store website: https://baines-bookscoffee-scottsville.square.site/

March
17-19 Literary Guest at OutlantaCon in Atlanta, GA, a reading from In Light’s Shadow: A Fairy Tale
May
6 Repeat performance! I will again be teaching an afternoon seminar for Writer House, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Flash: A Story! This seminar is on the writing of flash fiction. For more information, please see: https://writerhouse.org/class/flash-short-story/
An interview on flash fiction is below.
2022
January
8 11am-12 pm, EST: Author Takeover, Liminal Fiction. Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/limfic, to see the posts and discussion.
March
17 5:30 p.m. I will be attending, via Zoom, a meeting of the Board of Directors of Writer House (https://writerhouse.org/), 508 Dale Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22902. I have been invited to be a member and this is a trial/guest visit
April
13 A follow-up to previous announcement: I was appointed to a 3-year on the WriterHouse Board of Directors.
May
1 I will be teaching an afternoon seminar for Writer House, 1-4 p.m., Flash: A Story! This seminar is on the writing of flash fiction. For more information, please see: https://writerhouse.org/class/flash-fiction-2022-02/
7 I will giving a talk at CRRL-Con, a virtual conference on speculative fiction, sponsored by the Central Central Rappahannock Regional Library. I will be speaking on Writing Fantasy, Writing Self: Incorporating the Autobiographical into the Fantastic. I will be speaking at 12:30 p.m. This talk is based on a presentation of the same name that I gave at the Great Writing Conference in London in 2011. For more information, please go to: https://www.librarypoint.org/crrl-con/ Free and open to the public.
June-July
August
2 My flash fiction short story, “Ghosts,” was accepted for publication in Clarity, the 2022 Queer Sci Fi flash fiction anthology. Publication date: October 5, 2022. The story was awarded Honorable Mention. For more information: https://www.facebook.com/jscottcoatsworth/posts/10160060196832180
September
3 My novel, In Light’s Shadow: A Fairy Tale, was published by JMS Books, in both print and ebook format. The print edition was released in October.
November
12 My stand-alone novella, Susurrus, was published by JMS Books.
2021
September
4 Seagulls published as a stand-alone story by JMS Books
11 To Bring Him Home and Other Tales published by JMS Books.
Updated: 12 March 2023