Her Poetry Collection | Flash Fiction | & Life [dropcap]E[/dropcap]leanor Hooker’s first poetry collection, The Shadow Owner’s Companion, was published by The Dedalus Press in 2012. Her second collection will be published later this year. In February 2016 she was awarded First Prize in Bare Fiction’s Flash Fiction competition in the UK, and her short…
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my lies have titles
Video Poetry — Donna Kuhn For our third National Poetry Month 2016 feature, we offer the video poetry of Donna Kuhn. video poetry by Donna Kuhn >> my lies have titles << She told The Woven Tale how she came to create what we are calling her “video poetry”: [dropcap color=”#034582″]I [/dropcap]was making very strange…
Flash Non-Fiction and Poem | Charles Bane, Jr.
Hybrid Writing — The Falling Sickness Essay-poem hybrid writing by Charles Bane, Jr. [dropcap]O[/dropcap]f all the gifts a poet can be given, epilepsy is the richest. I fell when I was four. It was kept hidden by my family; my father had it scrubbed from my medical records. But my life was already deeply private,…
Art Spotlight: Michael Dickel
National Poetry Month Winter window Outside the opportune window one pink head survives above geranium leaves blowing in the winter wind, covered with cold rain dropped from dimmed desire. The basil released its hope in the face of the war— forces of December and January— (more…)
The Double Life of Salena Godden: Performer and Writer
Interview by Press Literary Editor Jo Ely: Salena Godden is a performer, poet, short story writer, playwright and author. She’s appeared on television and radio, including Channel 4, the BBC’s Verse Illustrated series and Loose Ends. She’s also made regular appearances on the BBC’s The Verb and Bespoken Word, and is resident poet for Click…
WTP Writer: Claire Meadows
Interview by Press Literary Editor Jo Ely: Tell us about your writing process. For example, do you outline? Revise extensively? I don’t like to make the process too academic and prescriptive. I’ve not set up stringent conditions just in case I’m ever called upon to write in radically different situations and find myself stranded without…
Unmade Memories
I wish those memories Were were never made The ones that bring Tear drops Running down my face And I wish those moments never came When I’d look at you And fall in love again. Those velvet nights, How we brought Down the moon Then lit up the sun Drinking each moment Like it was…
The Contemporary Haiku
By Eliot Gilbert I’ve had a fling with haiku lately. Sometimes I pick out a collection of poems and take it out of the university library to read between the spastic wave crests of work. I like poetry collections and short story anthologies because I can get a small hit of literature to enjoy and…
Through The Looking Glass - Adventure In Zenland
Read –> Adventure In Zenland I fell into the black hole… I was filled with so much of wonder that I did not realize that I was falling into space beneath me. Before even I knew, I fell down with a thump. My head was spinning and I could vaguely see someone was standing in…
Liza's Tree
Inspiration for writing is often memory. As a girl I attended Camp James Weldon Johnson in Raccoon State Park in Pennsylvania. One of my fondest memories is the long nightly walk to Liza’s Tree. Once there, we sat around a blazing campfire while one of the best storytellers in the world told us about Liza,…
The Nine Commandments of Indie Writing
As a published Indie Writer, I attest to the hard work it takes to complete a manuscript. Family and friends’ “this is good” critiques do not good writers make, neither does moaning about the absence of the muse, or other responsibilities that may take writers away from writing. The successful Indie Writer: sets and respects stated/written goals…