literature

  1. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day “Don't walk behind me; I may ...

    “Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” Albert Camus
  2. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Know myself?’ If I knew ...

    ‘Know myself?’ If I knew myself, I’d run away. Goethe
  3. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the ...

    If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. Elizabeth Bowen
  4. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat Famous literary 1st lines. How many do you know? Get inspired!

  5. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day There’s a kind of ear music …

    “There’s a kind of ear music … a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.” Allan Gurganus
  6. Katie-Ellen

    Dandelion Break April Fools, The Echo of Runes, and the numinous Power of Zero

    Today is April Fool’s day, correlating with The Fool in the Tarot, or The Joker in playing cards, and The Fool may also be acting as The Trickster. The exact origins of April Fool's Day as a British and European tradition are not known. This date may been associated with pranksters since the...
  7. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Our knowledge is a ...

    Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Will Durant
  8. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day No one ever became ...

    No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly. Juvenal
  9. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Boredom: the desire ...

  10. Jake E

    News Humourous read on the state of litfic.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/good-riddance-to-literary-fiction/
  11. Pamela Jo

    News Desperate Literature Prize

    https://desperateliterature.com/product-category/literaryprize/eleven-stories/ ABOUT THE PRIZE: The aim of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is both to celebrate the best of new short fiction and to give winners the most visibility possible for their writing. That’s why we’ve teamed...
  12. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat Is your premise juicy enough to share over the back fence?

    I will not back down from my revelation that all literature essentially stems from gossip. Madame Bovary being some of the juiciest. So I am now taking that conviction to the cookie bakery. Evaluating my first pages ... is there enough tea spilled to warrant the next table listening in...
  13. Pamela Jo

    News Maria Edgeworth ShortStory and Poetry Competition

    https://mariaedgeworthcenter.com/maria-edgeworth-literary-festival/maria-edgeworth-literary-festival-competition/
  14. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Big Book....

    Big Book, big bore. Callimachus
  15. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Never look back unless....

    Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry David Thoreau
  16. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just....

    “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.” Christopher Morley
  17. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: One Perfect Sentence

    New blog post by mickleinapickle One Perfect Sentence Posted on behalf of Peter Cox… The prompt this month was to complete “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” in a novel way. In this, you manifestly succeeded In fact, this was arguably the best OPS contest we’ve run so...
  18. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day If you show someone something you've written....

    “If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’”. David Mitchell
  19. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day It seems incredible, the ease with which we.....

    “It seems incredible, the ease with which we sink through books quite out of sight, pass clamorous pages into soundless dreams.” William H. Gass
  20. Mel L

    News Farewell, David Lodge!

    David Lodge was one of my literary heroes and a true comic genius. David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89
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