About a week ago, I finished reading Selected Poems and Two Plays by William Butler Yeats, a poetry collection that I had been dipping...

I’m starting this week’s post with another question: how many books do you read at a time? It’s another one of those debates we readers...

“So, what’s your favourite book?” It’s an easy conversation starter. It can stimulate some great literary discussions. But what if you...

I once heard a story about what advice WH Auden would give to an aspiring poet. When asking a young man why he wanted to write poetry, if...

I once heard someone say that historical fiction is the closest thing we can get to time travel, and I think this has a whole lot of...

Today I want to talk for a minute about pride, and I don’t mean the kind of pride that this month is celebrating. I mean self-esteem and...

I think it’s sad that we’re losing the practice of writing things by hand. Of course, having computers and phones and word processors is...

Kyra Bredenhof Best Overall: Armadale Young Writer's Awards Published 2021 Finlay Graham Blackburn was born on the 2nd of October, 2017....