Writing & Craft

1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (181+ words) Morning weather forecast for Sept. 21, 2026 What to expect on Morning Live on Sept. 22, 2026 Beauty treatments that leave you feeling brand new Shari Lapena on her new thriller, ‘Getting Away with Murder’ Dine & dream at Famous People Players A six-week online author…...

15+ hour, 7+ min ago   (690+ words) A few nights ago, I received an official publishing offer from Waxen Magazine. I was so elated that I shook my partner awake to show him the acceptance email. I have been active in the Indie/lit mag submission trenches…...

3+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1507+ words) Plenty of Irish writers are using AI for first drafts now, so we looked at seven tools that can handle the hard parts of the past, keep a period voice and hold on to the details you worked hard to…...

6+ hour, 46+ min ago   (218+ words) No one is reading this journal except me. Sometimes, I probably won’t even reread my journal. So why was I consistently leaving things out or changing the way I wrote things as if it would be presented to the world?...

4+ hour, 48+ min ago   (565+ words) Stillwater Public Library Associate Librarian, Karen Karason, poses with the books featured at this years Authors on the Road to Publication event. What happens when four authors settle into armchairs for a conversation about writing, publishing, and the books they’ve…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (754+ words) When I published my first piece of writing online, I thought the hardest part would be writing. I was wrong. I spent hours choosing words …...

6+ hour, 26+ min ago   (598+ words) The concurrence was becoming. “If I Could Remember You Right” is a story about memory and love, what we surrender, and what settles when the people we have once loved begin to depart. This book was written to navigate the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (137+ words) On Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 6:30 p.m., the Belfast Free Library presents a book launch and dramatic reading for Carolyn Locke’s release, Between Ray and Eva: A Memoir in Poetry. "It is a testament to the love, humor, and generosity that carried them…...

19+ hour, 40+ min ago   (373+ words) Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix. He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone…...

21+ hour, 24+ min ago   (299+ words) LOCAL author and emotional freedom advocate Geraldine McGrath has launched her third book, ‘The Ripple Effect’, at an event in Belfast. The book was launched on Friday as part of ‘The Ripple Experience’, with authors who have shared their personal…...