by Yuan Changming During the great flood Noah hid himself in the ark While Dayu tried to contain it With his bare hands Prometheus stole fire From Olympian gods While Sui Ren got it By drilling wood hard Smart Daedalus crafted wings To fly away from his prison-tower While Old Fool removed the whole Mountain blocking his way …
Writing has always been part of my life. As a child, my journey began with writing short stories about family summer vacations. As a teenager, I kept a journal for many years, writing about friendships. Today, I am grateful it is a daily part of my life teaching English and…
by Gabbi Hall Writer and adventurista, Janice Holly Booth, had her first book, “Only Pack What You Can Carry,” published by National Geographic in 2011. Since then, she released a non-fiction novel, “A Voice out of Nowhere: Inside the mind of a mass murderer,” and taught many creative writing workshops for…
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Robert Hilliard is the author of “A Season on the Allegheny“, a non-fiction book about Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest. For him, one of the greatest challenges to completing his book, which has been called “a well-researched, well-written account” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was finding time to sit down and write. To…
by Joan Raymond First, a disclaimer: This is not one of those “How to Get the Best Interview Possible in 11 Easy Steps” type articles. Instead, this is my eight-week journey from inexperienced interviewer to weekly feature writer for a local publication. I’m still not an expert, but I have…