Monthly Archive: June 2013

Featured Club: The Support Group 0

Featured Club: The Support Group

Newly formed, The Support Group aims to provide a safe space for all YWSers in need of place to vent and get support. Right now, due to its newness, there isn’t much to see...

Fiction Focus- Sarcastic Characters 2

Fiction Focus- Sarcastic Characters

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit” said someone once, and I sincerely hope they said it sarcastically. I don’t know about you, but I’m not a hero fan. Not many people are. Our...

Challenge Corner #13 – Three Flowers 0

Challenge Corner #13 – Three Flowers

Greetings, from the sunny place that is Britain remembering what summer is! I hope you’re all well, and have lovely weather of your own, whichever season you’re in. In a suitably sunshine-inspired mood, this...

Word of the Week #16 0

Word of the Week #16

Marjorie’s new boyfriend was sly and fissilingual.   fissilingual (adj) [fi-sê-LING-gwêl] 1. Having a forked tongue (as in, speaking deceitfully)

Why Do You Read Poetry? 1

Why Do You Read Poetry?

    Why do you read poetry? It’s not often I get asked this particular question, but it was posed the other night and I had to seriously think before I could answer. The...

Tahereh Mafi, Coffee Girl 3

Tahereh Mafi, Coffee Girl

One day, I asked myself, who authors really are. They are writers, yes. They produce entertaining pieces of literature, yes. They make lives, create fantasies, remix histories, yes. But I believe that there are...