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Featured Poem 4/8 – “Azaleas” 0

Featured Poem 4/8 – “Azaleas”

Azaleas by Kim So-wŏl     See information on the translation of this poem here.   When seeing me sickens you and you walk out I’ll send you off without a word, no fuss. Yongbyon’s...

Have You Thought About This? : The Three-Pointed Balancing Act 0

Have You Thought About This? : The Three-Pointed Balancing Act

The more I review, the more a trifecta of necessary elements calls my attention and gets my mind stirring. You’ve read them. The “un-successes”. The moments of a novel that are all imagery —...

YWS Easter Egg Hunt 12

YWS Easter Egg Hunt

Hello everyone! An exciting event is now taking place over at The Young Writers Society and anyone can take part! The YWS staff have hidden 20 secret Easter Eggs around the site and each one is...

Featured Poem 4/1 – “Vespers” 4

Featured Poem 4/1 – “Vespers”

Vespers by Louise Glück   In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment. I must report failure in my assignment, principally regarding the tomato plants. I think I...

Have You Thought About This? : Warming Up 2

Have You Thought About This? : Warming Up

It’s a pretty standard aspect of any skill. Before you go for a long run, you take a warm-up walk. Before you go on stage to belt out opera to a full stadium, you...

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Murder Walks the Plank 4

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Murder Walks the Plank

Welcome to Bad Cover Art…Redesigned! Where I bring you the most horrible of all cover art I can find on the world wide web and try to come up with an alternative (that I...

Fiction Focus Week 6- “Coming back to Life” 3

Fiction Focus Week 6- “Coming back to Life”

Not only is it the week of YWS’ grand re-opening, for Christians all over the world it’s Holy Week as we approach Easter. So with these two things in mind, today I decided that...