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Gabi Coatsworth is an award-winning British-born writer and blogger, who has spent half her life living in the United States. Her essays, short fiction and poetry have been published in the anthology, Tangerine Tango: Women Writers Share Slices of Life, E-chook's literary memoir app, and literary journals, both in print and online. You can find her blog for writers, and her personal blog, online at www.gabicoatsworth.com. Her memoir, A Handprint on My Heart, is currently with editors and due out in 2019. She has never wanted to travel back in time to change the past.

All her social media accounts are under her name.


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COMING SOON!

3-Question Interview with Gabi Coatsworth
​about her short story "Crazy"
to be published in
​DON'T BE A HERO: A VILLAINTHOLOGY

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"Crazy" - Todd doesn't think that house-sitting his neighbor's dog will be too much trouble, but even yappy terriers can have their bad days.


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3-Question Interview with Gabi Coatsworth
​about her short story "Monster"
published in
​Imagining Monsters: A Collection of Short Stories Inspired by Frankenstein

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"Monster" - A woman's mother-in-law undergoes a revolutionary new treatment to make her look young forever, but there are unimaginable repercussions for her family.

Aside from Frankenstein, where did you draw inspiration for your story?

I've never written horror before, so I began to think about the people I'd met whom I'd heard described as a monster. Almost immediately, my first mother-in-law sprang to mind. She was a woman completely focused on her looks, and I began to wonder how she would have reacted to a Doctor Franck who promised eternal beauty. Was such a thing possible, and would it work on her? I love fiction because I can speculate to my heart's content!

All the proceeds from Imagining Monsters anthology sales are going to the WestportWRITES program at the Westport Library, which is a true haven for local writers in Fairfield County, Connecticut. As a writer, where is your haven - where do you write, and what do you need to help you write?

I am not a writer with a regular daily schedule. I write when and where I can. so I write at my desk, looking out at my garden, in cafes and airplanes, and in a writing space for writers, the Fairfield County Story Lab in Westport, CT. I like a little background noise when I write, but no music, or I begin singing along and can't form a decent sentence. Caffeine, of course--English tea at home, and coffee when I'm out.

What's next on the horizon for you?

​​I've finished the first draft of a women's fiction novel, and now have to start making it into something readable. When I need a change of pace, I write flash fiction or poetry., and submit it to various publications.

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3-Question Interview with Gabi Coatsworth
​about her short story "Misconception"
published in When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology

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"Misconception" - Marcia wonders about the son she gave up for adoption many years ago... until a stranger shows up on her doorstep and causes her to revisit her past choices.
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​What or who inspired you to write this story?

The inspiration for this story was the regret felt by a woman I knew who wondered at which point in her past she could have made a different choice and had a different life. It's the original "What if?" question for a lot of people, I think.
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If time travel were a reality, when/where would you go and why?

If time travel were a reality, I think I'd be too chicken to try it, though I must say I'd like to take a peek at World War II Britain (where I'm from), or hang out with my Polish grandmother when she was a young girl around 1900.

What's next on the horizon for you?

​Next up are the final edits to my memoir, A Handprint on My Heart, which should be published in 2019. Maybe time travel into the future would help me see my reviews in advance. But again--too chicken!


​​Gabi provides a peek behind the curtain with a three-word summary of each of the stories in When to Now in her blog post HERE.


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