The 1975’s Matty Healy Prefers Writing Lyrics He’s Afraid Of
Being Funny in a Foreign Language , the 1975’s fifth album, was born from reflection. After the band noticed that the new music they were working on felt like an extension of their last record, 2020’s Notes on a Conditional Form , they stopped to reconsider. “That elicited a bit of a downer,” says band […]
Student Writing and Cartoon Contest Now Open
Contest supports civic education and engagement Door County middle and high school students, including students who are home-schooled, are encouraged to participate in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation’s editorial writing and cartoon contest, which is now open to all Wisconsin students. The contest is designed to increase civic education and engagement while celebrating the rights […]
The world’s first writer was a woman and this new exhibit at The Morgan celebrates her
Photograph: Disk of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Ur (modern Tell el – Muqayyar), gipar Akkadian period, ca. 2300 BC . Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Pop quiz: Who’s the world’s first author? “If you ask most people who the first known author is, you will always get a man and usually it will […]
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
When Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya announced her horror novelette, a lesbian ghost story, would be published by Burrow Press, I immediately pre-ordered the special edition hardcover version . Kayla is many things. She’s our Managing Editor, but she’s also our leading Yellowjackets expert, our personal essay champion, a writer of fiction across various literary magazines — […]
‘Generally, I feel the more people involved in songwriting, the less personal it gets.’
MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series celebrates the pop composers behind the globe’s biggest hits. In this edition, we meet Per Gessle, one half of Sweden’s second most successful band of all time, Roxette, and the writer behind all their biggest hits. World’s Greatest Songwriters is supported by AMRA – the global digital music collection society […]
Three Creative Writing Professors Publish Books This Fall at Graywolf Press
Ander Monson, Bojan Louis, and Manuel Muñoz, faculty members in the University of Arizona’s acclaimed Creative Writing MFA Program – which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year – have books published this fall by Graywolf Press , a leading independent publisher. A deep dive into Predator and male American culture First up is Ander […]
UD writers’ workshop founder earns praise
Click here to view original web page at UD writers’ workshop founder earns praiseTeri Rizvi, executive director of strategic communications at the University of Dayton, founded the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop in 2000, but didn’t begin putting her own experiences into book form until the pandemic brought her public world to a halt. The result […]