Tag: writing

  • Curling up with a book (or doing anything with a book, for that matter) may not be how you would first think to spend your St Patrick’s Day. A national holiday for the Emerald Isle which has been adopted by peoples across the world with no connection to Ireland but a keen desire to use…

  • It is It is fifty five years since Sylvia Plath killed herself, in her flat in London, near Primrose Hill, in a house where William Butler Yeats once lived. She was thirty-one. Her two children, Frieda, age three, and Nicholas, barely one, slept in the next room. The details of her suicide are known most…

  • Attention all book lovers! Ever wanted to own your own bookstore? Well, now you can – and through a writing competition, no less! From My Shelf is a small, independently owned bookstore in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, USA. Year round, they welcome in-store shoppers to browse the more than 60,000 new and gently used books that they…

  • The New Yorker fiction podcast has a great episode up right now, with Lorrie Moore joining Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Naked Ladies,” by Antonya Nelson, from a 1992 issue of the magazine. https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/thenewyorker/?share=1#file=/audio/json/837438/ Here’s an excerpt from Nelson’s excellent short story below: “Laura Laughlin, 17, and her family attended the annual Easter frolic of…

  • If you’re reading this, it’s likely because you are as fascinated as we are by the quite frankly insane world of dinosaur erotica. We’ve already compiled a detailed introduction to the sub-genre that will help get you up to speed with the scaly, sexy goings on of this monster erotica sub-genre. Now, we’re going one…

  • We’ve delved deep into the frankly bonkers world of dinosaur erotica as part of our ‘sex in fiction’ series. Now, not only can you find out all you need to know about this literary phenomenon through our in-depth introductory guide, but you can also get an insightful glimpse into this monster erotica sub-genre of literary…

  • “Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one,” literary giant F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his fifteen-year old daughter in 1936. Sixteen years later, an aspiring young author, born in that year, called Alice Quinn reached out to T.S. Eliot – by that point one of the most famous writers in the…

  • A new novel from award-winning poet, Adam Steiner, looks set to cast a shattering light upon the internal chaos currently ripping through the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Inspired by the author’s own experience working in the NHS, Politics of the Asylum is a nightmare vision of working and surviving in a modern healthcare system…

  • Here’s the thing about writing a novel: once you’ve done it, you think you can do it again. It won’t be easy, of course, but it will be easier. You now understand the skeleton of a novel. You have already answered ‘but good god, how does it all come together?’ in your moments of bright…

  • I don’t have anything to hide I think Viagra is wonderful I definitely don’t need Viagra If you need it, Viagra is great But I just don’t need it Sometimes I wish there was an anti-viagra Something that had the opposite effect I’m not bragging I’m just lucky: I don’t need Viagra ~ Anonymous  A note…