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Laurence Lumsden

@laurencewrites.com

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Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. www.LaurenceWrites.com. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 30/09/2026

Get your orange shirt on! #OrangeShirtDay www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...

September 30th is Canada's national day for truth and reconciliation, recognising the harm and the loss of culture, freedom, and self-esteem that many Indigenous children experienced in the Residential Schools system.

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 24/07/2026

Stories from Mavis Gallant, bagels from Fairmount Bagel - a happy Friday from Montreal! #shortstory #Montreal #bagel #TGIF

Two golden sesame bagels from Fairmount Bagel, next to a well thumbed copy of the short story collection "Montreal Stories" by Mavis Gallant.

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 03/05/2026

Short stories, tall grave - Guy de Maupassant au cimetière du Montparnasse

Graveside monument of Guy de Maupassant.

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 03/05/2026

Placed a pebble on the gravestone of Dreyfus, lest we forget. At le cimetière du Montparnasse.

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 03/05/2026

Sartre has faded, but not Simone de Beauvoir...and not only at Montparnasse cemetery.

The gravestone of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Sartre's name has faded.

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 12/04/2026

With the snow (finally) melted, I had a beautiful walk this morning on Mount Royal. Saw Leonard. #montreal

Leonard Cohen's grave in the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim cemetery on Mount Royal.

A view of Montreal's west end from the belvedere on Mount Royal, the Crescent Street mural of Leonard Cohen in the foreground.

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 09/10/2025

Saw Isabelle Faust play the Beethoven Concerto with the OSM @osmconcerts.bsky.social last night...and went back to see her again this morning. Such a brilliant and charismatic musician. #EmotionallyDrained bigloolaa.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...

Violinist Isabelle Faust and conductor of the OSM Bernard Labadie being acclaimed by the crowd at La Maison Symphonique de Montreal, October 9th, 2025.

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 30/09/2025

Kassinu auass apatenitakushu | Chaque enfant compte. www.tshakapesh.ca #JNVR, #VéritéEtRéconciliation, #JournéeDuChandailOrange #ChaqueEnfantCompte

Cette image se dessine à la base par une plume, une assise appuyée par la désignation Kassinu auass apatenitakushu | Chaque enfant compte. Elle donne naissance à la représentation de deux jeunes enfants : une fille et un garçon. Ces derniers, se tenant par la main, révèlent ainsi un geste d’affection qui est rassurant et sécurisant et qui caractérise à la fois un lien de confiance, de force et de courage.

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 21/08/2025

I've a piece in the September issue of Blank Spaces, one of my favourite Canadian magazines - their production and artwork are always stunning. www.blankspaces.ca

Cover of the September 2025 issue of Blank Spaces magazine

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 08/06/2025

Was doing some gardening, working on a short story in my head, when this little guy crept up on me. He'll have to be a character now.

A young wide-eyed deer peeks out from behind a green fern

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 26/03/2025

Join us in Galway at the Cúirt Literary Festival's showcase of new writing on April 9th: www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/new... @cuirtfestival.bsky.social

Headshots of the writers appearing at the New Writing Showcase, part of the Cuirt Literary Festival in Galway

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 25/12/2024

Well this is quite the perfect gift for me.

A bottle of Irish whiskey named "writer's tears".

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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 30/11/2024

Thrilled to have my short story 'Cleanliness is Next to Godliness' published in the beautiful new issue of Crannóg magazine. #contemporaryirishwriters #writingcommunity

First page of short story 'Cleanliness is Next to Godliness' by Laurence Lumsden

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