Laura Fulton is a novelist, memoirist, essayist and teacher. A native of the Mississippi delta region of southern Arkansas, Laura grew up in the Ozarks. She currently writes from Wurundjeri country in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
Laura is currently querying her debut novel Those Tiny Quiet Places, an imagined family history with elements of mystery, crime and magical realism in which a writer tormented by a story battles her demons, recounting her tempestuous family history in 1960s southern Arkansas. This Southern grit lit novel considers themes of separation, trauma and loss, how we cope with those issues, the ways we look forward and the ways we look back. Laura is represented by Michael Cybulski at NAC Literary Agency.
After fifteen years teaching high school English in Dallas, Texas and then Abu Dhabi, Laura spent four years writing freelance articles for magazines throughout the United Arab Emirates including Time Out, Aquarius, Emirates Woman, Freehold Weekly and Liberty, among others. As a staff writer for Abu Dhabi Week magazine, Laura spent two years writing feature articles, interviews, reviews and the popular parenting column “Motherload”.
Laura left Abu Dhabi Week when she relocated to Melbourne at the end of 2011. For five years, she served as copy editor and project editor for a number of titles. She was also the ghost writer of several books, including Legs 11 (updated edition, 2017) with Rhonda Burchmore, My Idol Years (2016) with Mark Holden, You Can Too (2016) with Annie Crawford, and Be Your Own Builder (2015) with Keith Schleiger, among others. A sample of her published books and articles appears under Publications.
In 2017, Laura returned to creative writing full time, undertaking a PhD in Media and Communication at RMIT Melbourne. She completed her project in November 2020 despite the challenges of Covid restrictions and quarantine, graduating in May 2021. Her hybrid creative/critical dissertation, presented as a creative field journal, investigates the use of creative writing experimentation as a means of exploring aspects of the identity. It is available in the RMIT Research Repository.
Laura is a member of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), Writers Victoria, Arts Front, the Victorian Institute of Teaching and the Australian Fairy Tale Society.
Laura now devotes her time to creative expression, university guest lecturing and emergency relief high school teaching. Her interests include travel, watching stand-up comedy and live theatre, reading, crafting beautiful useful things, walking her little dog and, as always, writing. Her work often considers themes of hope, strength, resilience, beauty within the mundane and the triumph of tiny heroes.
In addition to querying, Laura is also working on a number of short and long form fiction and nonfiction projects, including a memoir, Dirty Feet, the next in the Caughey series, Shirley’s Boys, and a post-apocalyptic novel, Ringers. Find her online at:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/One_Hell_Bunny
Facebook: www.facebook.com/laura.fulton.tiny.heroes
Instagram: www.instagram.com/laura.patchwork.girl
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/laura-fulton-b6299867/
Hello! I was enjoying your writing in Abu Dhabi week. Very well done! Didn’t know you have a blog. Anyway, good luck with your relocation!! Always take care :-))
Hi Anastasia,
Thanks for writing! Glad you like the blog – I’ll sure miss writing for Abu Dhabi Week.
Laura
I loved your A.D. Week column! Will now follow closely your blog.
Good luck with relocation, pls keep on writing.
Cant wait for the book to be published 🙂
Hi Dana,
Thanks for writing (and reading)! Let me know if you have ideas or suggestions for anything you’d like to see on the website.
Laura
Hey Laura!
Sad to hear you are leaving Abu Dhabi I thought you are just leaving Abu Dhabi Week 🙁 …I used to work in European International College we coordinate for a receipe that you publish in AD week. I wish you good luck. I am happy we we can catch you here 🙂 Wish you all the best. Look forward to read your book.
Best wishes
Uzma Khan
Hi Uzma,
Of course I remember you! As happy as I am to be in Australia, it was hard to leave Abu Dhabi behind. I miss it and all the friends I had there. I’ll let you know when the book is ready – hope my little blog can fill the gap for anyone who misses Motherload 🙂
Thanks for reading and please stay in touch!
Laura
I have just returned to Abu Dhabi from my winter vacation and picked up the latest Abu Dhabi week at the airport although still a good read it is not the same without your Motherload column. Abu Dhabi will indeed miss you and I cannot wait to get my hands on your book! Good luck down under and keep up the good work!
Hello Crystal,
Thanks for reading – I certainly miss Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Week and my little Motherload column. Thankfully, this blog has been keeping me company. I’ll let you know as soon as the book is ready – should be soon!
Laura
Best of luck in your new corner of the world! It’s so good to hear from you!!
Hugs, Sandi
Hi Laura!
Love,love,love your blog!! Cannot wait for you book to be published! x
Thanks for the moral support. I approved it for sale yesterday so it should be ready within a week. Will let everyone know as soon as I have my website set up for easy purchase xoxo. Thanks for reading and fantastic to hear from you!
Laura
Greetings from Ohio! I’m bored at work so I decided to check out your blog on my iphone during lunch break. I really like the knowledge you present here and can’t wait to take a look when I get home. I’m shocked at how fast your blog loaded on my mobile .. I’m not even using WIFI, just 3G .. Anyways, great site!
excellent internet project! good luck and prosperity! thanks.