USA TODAY NETWORK CHILLICOTHE― Have you ever wanted to write a book or short story? Have you already written a book but the publishing side of things got confusing? Either way the Southern Ohio Writers’ Group can help you. The Southern Ohio Writer’s Group was started in 2014 and has been meeting at the Pump […]
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 […]
As writers, we do not exist in a vacuum—we are constantly informed, changed, influenced, and inspired by the world around us. Today, I wanted to give you some examples of how various media has changed me as a writer over the years, and how you can look to these mediums for your own continuing education. […]
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – Toledo Public Libraries are challenging local youth to write a great story with its youth writing contest. The contest – sponsored by Ruth Blank Venner and Mary Jane Blank McCormick – will award prizes in the categories of grades k-2, 3-5,6-8, and 9-12. The story can be based on anything as […]
Courtesy of Dissent Anthology Romance novelists are a charitable group: Authors often band together and publish short story anthologies to benefit various causes. So when the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in June and ended decades of the constitutional right to abortion, romance writers immediately rallied in online communities. All proceeds from the sale […]
I wanted to post a little update on my writing projects. Freethought House, the publisher of my poetry book, was also going to publish my memoir about mental illness, recovery, and atheism. However, they recently had two people resign and they are no longer able to move forward with my project. I haven’t decided what […]
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 — […]
Motivos Magazine and NKCDC teamed up to surprise Brigitte Zigglih and Eliot Olaya with public displays of their poetry. A poem by Brigitte Zigglih, Junior at Girard College, called “My Work Is Not Yet Done”, is seen at a bus stop along Frankfort Avenue and Palmer Street in Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday, Sept., 29, 2022.Read more […]
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 […]
Media What inspired you to become a writer? I always wanted to be a writer, ever since I wrote my first six-page book, The Deer, in third grade—which I illustrated with a ballpoint pen and stapled together. Though I didn’t have the confidence to become a writer until I moved to Thailand in 1989 and, […]
