The Shipbuilder and his Daughter His blood froze in a Scottish winter. His daughter danced unknowing in a land of southern summers. Alone in his chair, Buttons the cat stretched out along his thigh, it’s said he did not feel that mighty brain tide pound its damage. Her ‘Hi Dad’ phone-call rings unanswered inContinue reading “The Shipbuilder and his Daughter. A poem by Lorraine Gibson”
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Bless Us Lord for the Sin-Free Life We Are Living. A poem by Megha Sood
Bless Us Lord for the Sin-Free Life We Are Living First Published in “Lift Your Voice”, Kissing Dynamite, Oct 2019 I stare with my gaping mouth mock and revere at this whimsical reality eyes rolling in disbelief head bowed in silence knees scraping at the pew to absolve my sins We only bowContinue reading “Bless Us Lord for the Sin-Free Life We Are Living. A poem by Megha Sood”
Sue Burge Introduces Hazel Press
This month I managed to pin down the trailblazing energy of Daphne Astor. Daphne, you did something extraordinary in 2020! You set up a new independent publishing press, Hazel Press. This seems such a brave thing to do in the middle of a pandemic with the world locking down around us. I know you areContinue reading “Sue Burge Introduces Hazel Press”
Ava Homa Speaks to Sue Burge about The Why of Writing
This month’s writing advice is a little different. Ava Homa’s brilliant, insightful and disturbing novel “Daughters of Smoke and Fire” is a must-read. I found it unbearably moving and thought-provoking. I read it in small snatches, breathing and pacing in between my readings, drawn back, compulsively to the next chapter and the next and theContinue reading “Ava Homa Speaks to Sue Burge about The Why of Writing”
WordCity Book Reviews
Two Reviews by Tina S. Beier This novel is wonderful. It has the perfect blend of historical detail, emotional depth, and action/intrigue. The novel is set in the mid-1500s, on the island of Malta, during military aggression between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St John. The story features some battle scenes but mainlyContinue reading “WordCity Book Reviews”
Leonard Cohen and Robert Fulford. An Essay by Gordon Phinn
Leonard Cohen and Robert Fulford Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years by Michael Posner (Simon&Shuster, 2020) Matters Of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen by Eric Lerner (DaCapo Press 2018) Leonard Cohen: A Woodcut Biography by George A. Walker (Firefly Books 2020) A Life In Paragraphs: Essays by Robert Fulford (Optimum PublishingContinue reading “Leonard Cohen and Robert Fulford. An Essay by Gordon Phinn”
Everywhere is Now. A graphic story by Rachel J Fenton
Return to Journal Rachel J Fenton is an award-winning writer living in the South Island of New Zealand. Her fiction has won the University of Plymouth Short Fiction Prize, the Auckland University of Technology Creative Writing Prize, she came second in the Dundee International Book Prize, was longlisted for the Inaugural Michael Gifkins Unpublished NovelContinue reading “Everywhere is Now. A graphic story by Rachel J Fenton”
Why the Scotiabank Giller Prize Keeps Getting Better (and What Literary Theorists Can Learn from the Sociology of Sport). An essay by Olga Stein
ESSAY: Why the Scotiabank Giller Prize Keeps Getting Better (and What Literary Theorists Can Learn from the Sociology of Sport) I suspect that my sense of time has been distorted somewhat by the current pandemic, because when an email arrived from the Scotiabank Giller Prize last week, announcing the five members of its 2021 jury,Continue reading “Why the Scotiabank Giller Prize Keeps Getting Better (and What Literary Theorists Can Learn from the Sociology of Sport). An essay by Olga Stein”
Pushelat, Lithuania. Non-fiction by Dawn Promislow
Pushelat, Lithuania I was in Lithuania. I thought I would try to see the village of Pušalotas. My friend’s father came from there; it was a shtetl with two hundred Jewish inhabitants on the eve of the Second World War. The town was known, in Yiddish, as Pushelat. So I hired a man to driveContinue reading “Pushelat, Lithuania. Non-fiction by Dawn Promislow”
BE WATER, MY FRIEND. Fiction by Edvin Subašić
BE WATER, MY FRIEND Damir stood first in the line that wrapped around Kino Kozara like a serpent. The master, the immortal Bruce Lee, was in town. It was the opening night, Dragon night—the spirit of the impossible. At last, Enter the Dragon was about to play in our tiny theater with yellow walls coveredContinue reading “BE WATER, MY FRIEND. Fiction by Edvin Subašić”
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