Emerging Writer

While it Lasted One day when I was thirteen, my mother’s hands fell off. They rolled under the table, giving the cat a bit of a turn. ...

Neil Gaiman, the gifted storyteller, does poetry too. I read this one in a book of his short stories - highly recommended.

Deadline: 15th April 2012 3 Categories: Open (max.60 lines), adjudicator Gillian Clarke, Welsh National Poet Formal (max 40 lines) ad...

This applies just as much to poems as to fiction, plays, whatever. When you read a piece of fictional writing and there is a specific f...

Barbara Smith was a recent reader at the Oxfam Spring into Poetry series in London. A first collection, Kairos, was published in 2007. H...

This sounds like a barrellful of laughs. Presented by the acclaimed theatre group, Rough Magic and written by Arthur O'Riordan, Imp...

I have been trying to write a wedding poem. It's proven harder than you would expect. There are a lot of wedding poems on Youtub...