This June, my debut novella, Mama & the Hungry Hole, will be published as #4 in the Wordcraft Fabulist Novella Series from Wordcraft of Oregon. While having my first book published has been an absolutely amazing journey, I struggled for... Read More
In the 1970s, the “troubles” were coming to a filthy head in Ulster. Bloody Sunday was a recent, open wound, slowly grinding down the ability of Catholics and Protestants to co-exist peacefully. Protestants were being awarded most of... Read More
The fifth annual China Children’s Book Fair was recently held in dynamic, tidy, and architecturally stunning Shanghai. With several of the world’s tallest buildings, an amazing riverfront, and futuristic ambiance, it is truly a... Read More
Poetry is always making a comeback. Resurrecting itself time and again from what seems like a tired and misinformed age-old “Is poetry dead?” question. Through it all, poetry remains the underdog, the art of reason and rectify in a... Read More
The Big Lie. Its what keeps many would-be writers away from their computers and sends many first-time writers away from their screens in despair. What is the big lie? The idea that writing cant be taught. The author debunks this idea in... Read More
“The stillness. Ah, the stillness. When there is absolutely no movement in the wind, and you are beyond the hum of motors, it becomes a tangible presence. If you are still and not breathing, you hear the blood pulsing in your... Read More
Editor’s Note: This post by Foreword Reviews Publisher Victoria Sutherland originally appeared on The Cockeyed Pessimist blog. Foreword Magazine’s story begins in Traverse City, Michigan, in 1998, when three women writers and... Read More
It’s not often that we can say, with confidence, that we’re witnessing the beginnings of a career of significance—usually, such realizations only come when we’re looking back! But two years ago, when we received Eugen Bacon’s... Read More