One of the popular institutions inseparable from the festivities of Christmastide has long been the “cracker.” The satisfaction which young people especially experience in pulling the opposite ends
Art by William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr.
William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr. earned his degree as a bachelor of fine arts with a concentration in painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in May 2005. While at UTC William became very interested in the postmodern painting practice of image appropriation. William is also very interested in mass media imagery…
Art by James Sholes
Yawn James Sholes is an artist and teacher from Ohio. James has worked in education for 10 years teaching almost all levels of students including university students at Firelands College. James has been an artist all his life. You can contact the artist at jamessholes (at) yahoo (dot) com.
Great Gift and Option for Self Publishing
Blurb is a company that recently came across our radar, and I have to say I like what I see. They offer self-publishing and on demand printing for anyone looking. Now if you just want to put together a very nice looking photo book of all your memories, I’m very sure the writer in your life would love it…
Inspiration for Writers 11 Cool Sites
The following is a list of 11 writing sites that will bring you inspiration in your writing. They are prompt sites, or sites with exercises, or just very cool stuff to play with.
Art by Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Texas. His books include a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK.
Short Story about Tech Issues
Well if you searched our site on Google yesterday, and maybe today, you will see a warning that says our site “may have been compromised.” Boy did this get us all jumping. We did not know that around the time of the Google crawl, we had someone having fun with the site. When I say fun, I mean they were trying to cause us all kinds of trouble and break into our home page
Awards Writers Should Know
Awards Writers Should Know We think the net is a tool. Sure it’s a community, a voice, an amplifier, but it was created as a tool. To that end we think that great writers will want to read great works. They might be in a genre or literary fiction, but knowing and reading great works…
Art by Lyanda Warne
The human form inspires me to paint. I look for a gesture that I can exploit in order to reveal something about the subjects personality. For me it’s more about the manipulation of the paint
10 Movies Based on Books! (Coming Soon)
10 Movies Based on Books! Coming Soon Near you, and all that jazz These 10 movies, based on novels, are coming out over the next year or so. We are looking forward to all of these (some more than others of course). A few we are very excited about On the Road should be awesome….
A Warrant for the Execution of a Witch
Whereas Bridgett Bishop als Olliver the wife of Edward Bishop of Salem in the County of Essex Sawyer at a special Court of Oyer and Terminer
Art by Alice
Art by Alice AliCè: Alice Pasquini, principally a visual artist, works as an illustrator, set designer and painter.Based in Rome, she has lived and worked in U.K., France and Spain. AliCè has travelled the world bringing her art to the streets of many countries. She has collaborated on illustration, graphic and design…
Every Day Writing Challenge!
We are issuing all of our readers the Every Day Challenge. I get emails and talk to young writers all the time who have never submitted their work for consideration to be
Art by Kurt Wenner
Art by Kurt Wenner Kurt Wenner is a world renowned artist of both classical and street art. He has traveled the globe and gained an international audience. His work has appeared all over Europe, Asia, and in the United States. In 1984 Wenner invented the art known as anamorphic or 3D pavement art. It…
The Devil by W.B. Yeats
My old Mayo woman told me one day that something very bad had come down the road and gone into the house opposite, and though she would not say what it was, I knew quite well.