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Writers Turn Art Into Words in Stouffville’s First Ekphrastic Writing Contest
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (585+ words) Oct 15, 2026 | Community Life, Local News A new literary competition in Stouffville has successfully brought together writers and visual artists in a unique celebration of creativity. The town’s first Ekphrastic Writing Contest, organized by the Inklings Adult Writing Group in partnership…...
‘Poets get rejected more’: The publishing lesson learnt by Lessons in Chemistry author Bonnie Garmus
1+ week, 1+ day ago (240+ words) The best-selling writer copped an astonishing 98 “No, thanks” replies from agents for an earlier manuscript before her first book became a global sensation. Poetry is at the heart of your delightful second novel, Peck & Peck. Was it this routine that…...
A Letter to the Author: “Bad Words”
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (384+ words) It is amazing what an evening off and an excellent novel will do for my creativity. The last time I wrote a review on here was when I was 23. I am now 25. Haven’t opened this website in two full years....
Ernest Hemingway stuck to these 4 rules to become a better writer in 1917. They still apply today.
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (390+ words) He learned them during his time at The Kansas City Star. Ernest Hemingway is widely considered one of the great American novelists. He won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 and 1954, respectively. And…...
Cato on Returning to Raymond Carver’s Writing
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (262+ words) AnOther Magazine “I’ve been happiest with the narrative of my paintings when there’s an open-ended moment, as with Carver’s stories,” says the artist, who relates to the author, and his editor, through imagination, intuition and their way of seeing the…...
Expert Pitch: Why Do We Keep Remaking the Same Classics Written by Women?
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (76+ words) Every adaptation reminds us that there are some human experiences and social structures that are timeless,” says Dr. Cristina Griffin, assistant professor of English at UVA. Story angles for consideration These classic novels may have been written over a hundred…...
Your words matter.
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (141+ words) When you have something new to tell the world: novel, fresh, unheard of, When you have something old to tell the world: a timeless truth, repeated countless times, for no one has said it your way. Sometimes no one will…...
I Started Writing Fiction to Escape My Own Life. Somewhere Along the Way, It Helped Me Find Myself Again.
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (96+ words) There was a time when my own thoughts felt like the loudest room I had ever been trapped in. I didn’t always have the words for what I was experiencing. Sometimes, I couldn’t even identify what I was feeling, only…...
More Followers, Few Readers — Should I Change My Writing?
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (218+ words) Experience doesn’t revoke DOUBT’s badge. It just helps me recognize the uniform sooner. Lately, I’ve read several articles about the same thing: we write, publish, gain followers, yet fewer people seem to stop and read than we would expect. I…...
The 10 Best Pieces of Writing Advice From My MFA
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (962+ words) A five-minute highlight reel of what I learned in two years. When I started at my MFA program, a part of me thought I was already a fully formed writer in need of only slight tweaks. I figured that an…...