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Following in the Footsteps of a Storyteller
Following in the Footsteps of a Storyteller
From New Zealand to France and back again
Sherryl Clark - writer, editor, poet.
Mar 5
Zen and the Art of Novel Writing
Zen and the Art of Novel Writing
What koans can teach us about great literature.
Matthew Ward
Jan 24, 2022
Binsey Poplars: the gay environmentalist and the Jesuit priest.
Binsey Poplars: the gay environmentalist and the Jesuit priest.
In the poem, ‘Binsey Poplars’, written in 1879, by an English Jesuit convert priest and poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ preaches a form of…
John E Marks
Jan 11, 2022
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
The animalistic nature of the human tends to reveal itself in different forms. Sometimes in the form of violence and madness, while other…
Faizan Anwar
Nov 21, 2021
Plato’s and Aristotle’s Oedipus the King
Plato’s and Aristotle’s Oedipus the King
As a research field, Literary Theory and Criticism, like all others, is attributed to the ancient Greek -Western- philosophers like Plato…
m.güneş
Jan 25, 2021
The Needle and the Damage Done
The Needle and the Damage Done
Representations of order, disorder and violence through addiction in Arthur Conal Doyle’s ‘The Sign of Four’.
Jennifer Zeven
Jan 15, 2021
Rulers as the Subjects of Their Rules
Rulers as the Subjects of Their Rules
“Shooting an Elephant” as a short story written by George Orwell is about a police officer who shoots an escaped elephants in Burma, India…
m.güneş
Oct 8, 2020
Kanda, Tokyo. A Book Paradise in 神田神保町
Kanda, Tokyo. A Book Paradise in 神田神保町
Japanese Antiquarian Bookshop District Jinbôchô
Merzmensch
Sep 17, 2020
My Secret Visualisation Technique to Dramatically Improve Your Stories
My Secret Visualisation Technique to Dramatically Improve Your Stories
The true shape of a story
James Garside
Aug 25, 2020
Break Into Poetry With Milton’s Sonnets
Break Into Poetry With Milton’s Sonnets
An unconventional choice that has it all.
Matthew Ward
Aug 17, 2020
How to Write a Feminist Story
How to Write a Feminist Story
A handbook to avoid patriarchal pitfalls in your scripts
Pratik Mishra
Jun 6, 2020
A Literary Lesson in Sex, Relationships & Madness
A Literary Lesson in Sex, Relationships & Madness
Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW, RSW
Jun 4, 2020
What’s Love When It’s Not a Fairytale?
What’s Love When It’s Not a Fairytale?
A look into ‘Everything Stuck to Him’ by Raymond Carver
Ryan Dimalanta
May 20, 2020
Reading for Comfort, Reading for Pain
Reading for Comfort, Reading for Pain
Meditations on Quarantine Reading
Matthew Ward
Apr 29, 2020
A Whole Life Approach to Writing
A Whole Life Approach to Writing
How to contain, capture and corral creative inspiration
Valori Maresco
Apr 11, 2020
How to be a daughter
How to be a daughter
From the edge of a patio where I sit across from my mother, we watch farmers from the Haute-Provence region setting up their weekly market…
Babette Dunkelgrün
Apr 6, 2020
4 Poems Written in Rupi Kaur’s Writing Workshops
4 Poems Written in Rupi Kaur’s Writing Workshops
Rupi Kaur recently held two writing workshops on Instagram—here’s what I wrote and learned.
Leigh Victoria Phan, MS
Mar 28, 2020
Why Do We Read Knausgaard?
Why Do We Read Knausgaard?
My struggle with My Struggle.
Matthew Ward
Mar 7, 2020
Literature Doesn’t Have to Make Sense
Literature Doesn’t Have to Make Sense
On the obsessive need for rationality in art.
Matthew Ward
Feb 18, 2020
The Literally Literary Weekly Update #7
The Literally Literary Weekly Update #7
Happy Wednesday and welcome to your weekly update from Literally Literary. These updates are here to highlight some of the top stories and…
Jonathan Greene
Feb 5, 2020
What's the Role of Fiction in Social Change?
What's the Role of Fiction in Social Change?
In a society overflowing with content and escapisms, does fiction do more harm than good?
Aline Ra M | Healer, Coach & Spiritual Teacher
Feb 4, 2020
The Corruption of Power
The Corruption of Power
Years later, Robert Penn Warren’s writing still speaks to the decay of political systems
Aaron Schnoor
Feb 2, 2020
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