As my wonderful editor at Candlewick once said, “When I find adults as interesting as children, I’ll start working for them.” But I do have adult projects in mind. I’ve published one,The Tiger’s Back, either a very short novella or a very long story, depending on how you look ...
Every night after dinner, she balanced grading papers with doing laundry, helping her kids with homework while working on next week’s lesson plans, and fretting over keeping the lights and water on, with only her salary as income. She’d found an attorney who specialized in going after dead...
(though sometimes the garden planning worked better than the garden itself). She was a kind heart for animals and many strays were brought to her over the years from all corners. She always remained very open and enthusiastic about eclectic spiritual and religious ideas. Despite being open to ...
Usually a pale beige or green-brown colour, so they are camouflaged, at night they change to a darker brown with four stripes more evident. This might be so they are harder to see in the dark. Instead of croaking, the males make a quacking noise, and sometimes a low throaty chuckle....
I write poetry & prose, long & short, for children & adults. I enjoy collaborating with other creatives and writing in response to particular objects, places & themes. Basically, I love variety in my creative life. As an experienced teacher and workshop leader, I'm also able to deliver ...
for the same reason we read fairy stories to children and weave their years with mythologies because there is comfort is such lies because I want the world you live in to carry more magic and less sharp edges. But, on this dark night ...
This is the second year for the Main Street Voices Poetry contest. The response to our first year of the contest in 2015 was terrific; we had over 175 entries in total from both students and adults. I’m on the planning board for the contest, the judge for grades 6-8 and 9-12, an...
Did you catch Michele and Meg’s photopoems inthe summer issueofWindow Cat Press? Hungry for more? Tomorrow night at 7pm, Meg will be reading more of her poetry (including a few poems from thePalettes of Lightproject) at the Marliave Restaurant in downtown Boston, as part of the U35 ...
He is the author of the Epic Fantasy novel saga The Three Gifts, which currently includes When Night Falls (Book One), A Plague of Shadows (Book Two), and the upcoming When Chaos Reigns (Book Three), which is scheduled for release in 2021. His most recent poetry appears in Pluck! The...
Favourites/Short Stories/Short Stories About Identity/Short Stories for Adults Coasting – Part One Short Story Milly: “I gotta take the bus home.” Von: “Okay.” Milly: “So I need two-fifty.” Von: “Where’s your bus pass?” Milly: “I don’t have it.” Von: “I know, but...