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A diverse group of high school students come together to share their open hearts with the world through writing short, personal narratives. These teens discuss a wide range of lifes important issues, such as young love, surviving a new country, losing a family member, and many more. Consisting of mostly minority students, this group battles through and conquers some of lifes more challenging obstacles hidden in the everyday living of Californias valley...
2) Bibliography of St. Lucian Creative Writing: Poetry, Prose, Drama by St. Lucian Writers 1948-2013
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Bibliography of St. Lucian Creative Writing: Poetry, Prose, Drama by St. Lucian writers is an invaluable reference tool for those researching St. Lucian literature, including the work of internationally recognised St. Lucian-born Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. It lists published and unpublished literature by St. Lucians writing poetry, prose, and drama. Reviews and articles on St. Lucian literature are also cited in a substantial section. Also included...
3) Reckoning 5
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Tending tiny miracles until they split the pavement.
The present is clay, sitting cool and wet in the palm of your hand. Squash it, twist it, and mold it. Shape it into something beautiful.
Featuring poetry, essays, fiction, and art by Hana Amani, Cécile Cristofari, Leah Bobet, Julia DaSilva, Marlon Hacla, Kristine Ong Muslim, Anthony Pearce, Angela Penrose, Christy Jones, Priya Chand, Maya Chhabra, Danielle Jorgenson Murray, Catherine Rockwood,...
5) Po ~ Life
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Po-Life is a compilation of poetry reflecting Life as seen through the eyes and journey of the author, detailing his realities and conquest of Love, Lust and Life. Although writing poetry is a way for him to release, open up and communicate to the world, it is subsequently a means for him to escape and cope with the way he is living.
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous writer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first translated and published almost 200 years ago. Its epic nature has not been dimmed by time: the story of a knight on a green steed challenging Sir Gawain to an epic challenge. What follows is a strange tale full of decapitations, seduction and magic. The Green...
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Current talk about the "new normal" and "going back to normal" has some questioning what normal means. What does normal look like? Is anyone or anything ever truly normal? Is normal something we should strive for? And if so, why do we revere the exceptional? Do we always need to return to the status quo, or can we learn and grow, taking the good parts of our past as we move forward into a new future? In these pages, you'll read poetry, nonfiction,...
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The Timberline Review is an all-volunteer literary journal published by Willamette Writers. Our focus is on showcasing emerging talent. This issue includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from Jeffrey Alfier, David Athey, Roy Bentley, C. W. Buckley, Brandon French, Desmond Everest Fuller, Trina Gaynon, Anne Gudger, Vix Gutierrez, Christine Hanolsy, Amy K. W. Heil, Amanda Hiland, Casey Killingsworth, Tricia Knoll, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Veronica Lupinacci,...
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This inaugural issue of the SFWP Annual includes twelve fiction and creative nonfiction stories from the first issues of the SFWP Quarterly, formerly known as the SFWP Journal. Read heartbreaking fiction about finding companionship as the sun literally burns itself out, learn about the trauma young gay men in Iran often endure, hide from witches in Salem in the 1600s, and even make your way through a modern choose-your-own-adventure story. Our creative...
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The San Diego Writers and Editors Guild published its first collection of short stories, essays, and poetry offered by its members in 2012. We called it The Guilded Pen—an apt title we thought—a cute play on words—and the title stuck. And, so did the idea of publishing an annual anthology to encourage and promote the writing arts in San Diego. We could not have foreseen the impact that such an anthology would have on the San Diego writing scene.
The...
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This issue of Minerva Rising is a powerful tribute to the connection we feel to our mothers and our children. Each story, poem, essay, and picture is a testimony to the influence these relationships have on our creativity. In "Cyberattack," one woman questions what her twenty-year-old self would think of her decision to be a mother. In the poem, "My Mother was Dead, a daughter walks the streets in Poland retracing the steps of all the Jewish mothers...
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Edited by Shelly Oria-author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus-this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality.
Twenty-eight contributors examine issues both timely and, somehow, timeless: policing of women's bodies, the choice to live child-free lives, the lack of access to reproductive health, the misogyny,...
13) Lives of Houses
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Kate Kennedy, a writer and broadcaster, is Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and Research Fellow in Music and English at Wolfson College, both at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney (Princeton). Hermione Lee is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. Her many books include biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Tom Stoppard....
14) Pitch Vibe!
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Pitch Vibe is an online and print magazine, which is, powered by Book Vine Press, a hybrid publishing company based in Chicago. As an innovative publication, Pitch Vibe serves as an accessible platform for best-selling and up-and-coming authors around the world to showcase their works and to reach out to book enthusiasts, who would be their potential envoys in the literary world. This publication puts the spotlight on authors, who could be the next...
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A hitchhiker, once left stranded, instead becomes an unexpected houseguest. A family squabble over a sunken lawn chair becomes a very public courtroom battle. The rainstorm that felt like the end of the world actually was.
This is not nonfiction. It's non-stalgia.
In this collection, fifteen authors blend memoir with imagination to unearth the truth buried in memories both fateful and fleeting. From honest to fantastic, from sweet to strange, these...
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Adventures Within Another is a collection of writing by ninth-grade students from Como Park Senior High School who spent six months crafting these original works with guidance from the Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute. This anthology spotlights the next generation of writers whose poetry and prose explore the people, places, and things shaping their burgeoning personal and cultural identities.
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Roping a buffalo, running off cattle rustlers, sitting out a winter storm in a cave-adventures like these were all part of everyday life for the cowboy. They're depicted here in stories that have stood the test of time, by writers whose words are just as funny and wise today as they were one hundred years ago.
Covering all corners of the great Western expanse-from Montana to Mexico, California to the Mississippi-the stories in this collection represent...
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He got the hang of his audience very quickly and then decided how high the pole-vault bar was to be set; and his audience ranged from the at-post-level villagers to international experts in fields of political economy, philosophy, culture, media and sometimes literature...
His speeches may not have won acceptance of the policy-makers but they must have been eye-openers to those who listened. He comes out, consistently, as a secular, radical liberal...
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Our fantasies and dreams create our reality. Most parents wish the best for their children and especially strong is the mother and daughter bond. In "Faery Letters" Pamela Erickson, a uniquely talented writer, demonstrates her love and caring for her own daughter through a series of "Faery Letters." This is a book that will be shared between mothers and daughters alike and passed down among generations of woman who will find themselves reflected in...
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This third, and final, volume in the Pineapple Anthology of Florida Writers includes Samuel Coleridge and Oliver Goldsmith, who never saw Florida, but used it in their poems. Several writers, such as Henry James and William Dean Howells, helped expose Florida to the nation. H. L. Mencken reported on the aftermath of the Jacksonville fire, John Rothchild wrote of the state's past, and Jack Kerouac wrote of his dislike of the state. There are works...
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