Laura K. Watson

UPCOMING MARKETS NIGHTMARE MARKET 12:00 - 6:00 pm, Saturday, November 1st Nightmare on Kill’em Drive Roller Derby, Moncton Coliseum, 377 Killam Drive, Moncton, NB CHARLOTTETOWN ZINE FEST 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Saturday, November 8th Charlottetown Library Learning Centre, 97 Queen Street, Charlottetown, PE
 LADY SMITH MANOR CHRISTMAS MARKET 11:00 am - 7:00 pm, Saturday, November 15th and 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Sunday, November 16th Lady Smith Manor, 22 Woodlawn Road, Dorchester, NB
 HEART & POCKET REVUE 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Saturday, November 22nd Sackville Legion, 15 Lorne Street, Sackville, NB TRUEMAN FARMS CHRISTMAS MARKET 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Sunday, November 23rd Trueman Blueberry Farms, 255 Etter Ridge Road, Aulac, NB

Events in the next few weeks!

Drawing in pencil crayon of an old stone building that's probably a church with power lines and pigeons in the sky above it and handwritten text that reads: "We're casting spells, casting shadows. We are casting a wide net. We're making something out of nothing, making do, making amends."

November in my 2026 calendar!

Love this one!

WRITERS' OPEN MIC Sunday, October 26th 3:00 - 4:00 pm Bill Johnstone Memorial Park Activity Centre 70 Main Street, Sackville, NB A free, monthly event for writers of all ages, genres, and backgrounds. Come out to share your work or just come to listen. All are welcome.

POETRY READING! Andrés Urzúa de la Sotta All the way from Limache, Chile! Andrés is a poet, published, and arts organizer. He will read from The Language of Stones, published by Sackville's own Hardscrabble Press. With Special Guests: Geordie Miller and Laura Watson Sunday, October 26th 7:30 pm The Arts Collective 25 Lorne Street, Sackville, NB

There is a lot happening poetry-wise in Sackville this Sunday!

The Writers' Open Mic is at 3:00 then there's a special reading from visiting poet, Andrés Urzúa de la Sotta at 7:30! Hope you can make it!

Drawings in pencil crayon of flowers in bloom, including coneflowers, rudbeckia, and foxglove. Handwritten text reads: "Is planting a prophecy? Or simply a labour? Generations of observation distilled into a magic spell that tells me how to get flowers."

July in my 2026 calendar!

WRITERS' OPEN MIC Sunday, October 26th 3:00 - 4:00 PM Bill Johnstone Memorial Park Centre 70 Main Street, Sackville, NB A free monthly event for writers of all ages, genres, and backgrounds.

The October Writers' Open Mic is coming up this Sunday!

As always, this event is free and open to all ages as well as all genres. Come with a poem, a story, a song, a monologue, an essay, or a comic to share. Or just come to listen.

Drawing in pencil and pencil crayon of a black cat perched on a fence below a flowering vine. Handwritten text reads: "Working on my languages. Do I speak yours yet?"

May in my 2026 calendar!

Drawing in pencil crayon of a cat looking out a window surrounded by house plants. Out the window, there's a loose outline of a winter landscape. Handwritten text reads: "We set up camp in our bedrooms and kitchens. We huddle around the kettle as the cold closes in. And as the walls inch inwards, we tell our own fortunes, detail our grand, expansive futures."

January in my 2026 calendar!

Drawing in pencil crayon of a snowy field marked with footprints and four figures moving through it. Handwritten text reads: "like a fresh sheet of paper, like a thick coat of ash."

February in my 2026 calendar!

Drawing in pencil crayon of a field with two trees towering over two girls and a sliver of a moon visible in the sky. Handwritten text reads: "New page in a new book. New month and a new moon."

August in my 2026 calendar!

Drawing in pencil crayon of a potted orchid just about to bloom sitting on a windowsill with a carved figurine of a bird. Out the window, there's a loose outline of a winter landscape. Handwritten text reads: "The orchid above the kitchen sink spent four and a half months working on these twelve flowers and never worried about wasted hours."

December in my 2026 calendar!

Drawing in pencil and coloured pencil of a barn in a field missing half a wall with hand-lettered text that reads: "I am always saying goodbye too soon. Goodbye to this day, this week, this season. Goodbye to the purple asters only just now beginning to unfurl. Goodbye to this moment in bloom.

September in my 2026 Calendar!

The purple asters are still blooming.

Drawing in pencil crayon of a clump of trees surrounded by melting snow and grasses and moss peeking through the snow. Text hand-lettered in pencil reads: "The snow is starting to melt and when it does, what will we find?"

March in my 2026 calendar!

Writers' Open Mic Sunday, September 28th 3:00 - 4:00 pm Bill Johnstone Memorial Park Activity Centre 70 Main Street, Sackville, NB A free, monthly event for writers of all ages, genres, and backgrounds.

The Writers' Open Mic in Sackville is back this weekend! Sunday, September 28th, 3:00 to 4:00 at the building in the Bill Johnstone park!

Drawing in pencil and coloured pencil of a crow in a tree with leaves turning yellow and hand-lettered text that reads: "The leaves hang off the trees like bright, paper flags, like the last stragglers left when the bar's about to close and they still want to dance."

October in my 2026 calendar!

The Sound of Music (1965)

Drawing in pencil crayon of a garden with crocuses popping up in between old leaves and dead plant material from the previous year. Text in pencil reads: "I keep a list of other periods in history when surely the world seemed ready to end. And maybe even did. But then new worlds started."

April in my 2026 calendar!

A pencil crayon drawing of daisies with text that reads: "I let them go to seed, and I never pulled the weeds."

I am still finishing up the drawings for my 2026 calendar and it has been a slow process! But if for some reason you have faith in me, you can now pre-order it on my webstore!

Anyway, this is June!

Shediac Fall Market 2025 September 13, 2025 11am - 4pm Free Entry 58 Festival Street, Shediac, NB Hosted by Love Letters oxo

I'm tabling at the Shediac Fall Market this Saturday! 11 am to 4 pm at 58 Festival street. Come say hi!

A table strewn with zines, sharpies, mailers and stamps.

Also just sent a new zine to the Snail Mail Club that I'm pretty excited about! (More on that soon!)

In-progress drawing in pencil crayon of a cemetery with lots of trees in the fall.

A desk with pencil crayons and a sheet of paper featuring hand-lettered names of months.

Working on the 2026 calendar!

UPCOMING MARKETS PARRSBORO ART FAIR 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Sunday, August 17th Parrsboro’s Bandstand 4030 Eastern Avenue, Parrsboro, NS SHEDIAC FALL MARKET 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Saturday, September 13th Shediac Multipurpose Centre 58 rue Festival, Shediac, NB

More upcoming markets! Including the Parrsboro Art Fair where I'll be tabling with @patrickallaby.bsky.social this Sunday!

A cookie tin full of zines and stickers, all packed up and ready for the fair.

A super cute sticker sheet featuring drawings of moths and stars.

I’m tabling at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival tomorrow! 10-5 at Alderney Landing. Come say hi!

Sappyfest Zine Fair Saturday, August 2 10-3 Free to Attend (Poster by Patrick Allaby) Royal Canadian Legion 15 Lorne St. (second floor)

I'm tabling at the Sappyfest Zine Fair this weekend! 10 - 3 at the Sackville Legion!

Small Desecration on this Ugly Street I thought we had an understanding. The sunflower that inexplicably took root in the smallest crack in the sidewalk on King street, the one we watched grow over the summer, wondering if it could really be what we thought it was, if those leaves really denoted a domesticated, annual species, traveller from somebody’s garden by mysterious means, until it bloomed, slowly opening itself up to us, this bright, solar centre of gravity unwrapped like a present, having decided, despite the road’s proximity that we could be trusted, us, the community, us— I thought we had an understanding not to touch.

A drawing in pencil of a sunflower.

A story of a betrayal. No sidewalk sunflowers have been spotted so far this year.

A super cute drawing of a mute swan in coloured pencil.

A cozy drawing of a Bass River chair with a patterned rug and a needlepoint cushion on lined paper.

A drawing of a chair with spindly legs, drawn in silhouette in green in coloured pencil on lined paper.

New 8" x 10" prints!

8" x 8" digital print of a pencil drawing of a woman wearing glasses and a cozy sweater.

New little print that I'm sending out to the Snail Mail Club this month! It's also on my webstore!

A cozy drawing in coloured pencil of a couple with their dog.

A drawing in coloured pencil of a clapboard house and an ancient tree hanging over it.

A drawing in coloured pencil of a kid sitting on a rock wearing mittens and colourful pants.

I'm opening up commissions this summer! Custom portraits of your favourite pet, human, vegetable, mineral--whatever you're into. Prices and more details on my website.

Small Apocalypse in the Back of the Sushi Restaurant For nearly a year after the fire, the building just sits there like a black egg cracked open; like a cake that someone has dug into with their whole fist, sprawling chocolate organs;

like a sitcom set, one wall peeled back, everything at odd angles, on display for the audience; like a dollhouse with all of its little pieces intact— the mattress on the floor like so many student apartments, the posters on the wall charred a flat black. A bottle of hot sauce perches on a teetering board and though the building went up in a matter of minutes, the bottle is now an unmovable fact that no wind or rain or snow displaces. Hanging dresses still haunt the closet like ghosts, fluttering and faceless.

Small apocalypse in the back of the sushi restaurant.

Writers' Open Mic Sunday, June 29th 3:00 - 4:00 pm Bill Johnstone Memorial Park Centre 70 Main Street, Sackville, NB A free, monthly event for writers of all ages, genres, and backgrounds.

The next Writers' Open Mic is this Sunday! This will be our last event before our summer break! Hope to see you there!