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- Local writer wins Atlantic award (The Yarmouth County Vanguard)
By Eric Bourque THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow Brenda Tate wasn't expecting the good news she received recently regarding her participation in the Atlantic Writing Competition. The Pleasant Valley resident was informed she was among the winners in the annual competition for Nightingales Don't Cry, the manuscript she had submitted. Interviewed about it last week, she recalled sending the story but ...
- Fledgling gangs brutal and rash - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Fledgling gangs brutal and rashSeattle Post Intelligencer - 53 minutes agoBarely 5 feet tall, with an open face and ready handshake, he likes to write poetry and was irked on a recent afternoon that his counselor hadn't provided a ...
- In good old days, things weren't so good (The Ohio University Post)
If you're a regular reader of -The Post's Opinion Page (in addition to your no-doubt unerring devotion to catching Thursday's edition, of course), last week you might have noticed a couple of letters from alumni who graduated a few decades ago.
- Morgentaler award renews abortion debate - StarPhoenix
Morgentaler award renews abortion debateStarPhoenix, Canada - 5 hours agoHe then turned to his "self-published" poetry. In The Goddess of the Golden Breast, he writes: "A suckling baby am I/Nursing at the golden breast . ...
- A fictional first lady bares her soul in a racy novel (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Curtis Sittenfeld knew she was being provocative. Invoking "the love that dare not speak its name" in a 2004 article for Salon.com, she burst out of her liberal Democrat's closet and declared: "I love Laura Bush. In fact, there is no public figure I admire more."
- Tribute to a mate (Wingham Chronicle)
Killabakh bush poet Roderick Williams has returned from the Henry Lawson Festival at Gulgong with a prize for a very personal poem he wrote as a tribute to one of his mates.
- PRC PhotoSLAM! - BU Today
PRC PhotoSLAM!BU Today, MA - 12 hours agoThink poetry slam, but with photos in a fun, supportive environment. Please note that to submit and present, you must be a PRC member and entries are due ...
- A Few Words About Religion - NewsBlaze
A Few Words About ReligionNewsBlaze, CA - 5 hours agoAmerica is on the verge of electing the first African American to the White House, but it may be generations before we have our first atheist or agnostic ...
- London bishop to investigate gay church ceremony - Guardian Unlimited
LONDON (AP) - The bishop of London said Sunday he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines. The priests walked down the aisle in a May 31 service at one of ...
- SEND TO A FRIEND - Los Angeles Weekly
You are sending a link to this story only. Neither you nor your friend's email address will be used for any other purpose. Three best things to do in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 23 Be-Boppin' in the Park Only in Burbank will you find three AMC ...
- Outskirts Press Announces Toothbrush Love, the Latest Highly ... - PR.com (press release)
Outskirts Press Announces Toothbrush Love, the Latest Highly ...PR.com (press release), NY - 5 hours agoThe 5 x 8 paperback in the Poetry category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price ...
- Enid Bagnold: at odds with the world - Daily Telegraph
Enid Bagnold was 64 years old when she wrote The Chalk Garden. Its first producer, Irene Selznick, wrote later that "I have known no one else in my life as eager for laurels as Enid still was… she craved celebrity." Ambition: Enid Bagnold in 1918 ...
- United in the name of tolerance - Guardian Unlimited
From the outside, the store in Bacup, Lancashire, is unremarkable. Posters in the window announce a two-for-one offer on roast ham and baby wipes. Photocopying is available at 7p per sheet. To step inside, however, is to confront a story that divides ...
- Aug 10 - Aug 16 (55) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
A great piece by Fred Kaplan in Slate recalls of all the reckless assurances that Bush had already given the Georgians, as if saying something makes it true: If the Europeans had let Bush have his way, we would now be obligated by treaty to send ...
- Fierly, fearless and funny - Beeld
Poet Napo Masheane turns pain, both personal and public, into art and makes people think as they laugh, cry and cringe. Pulse caught up with this warrior wordsmith on the heels of Women’s Day Napo Masheane – respected poet, playwright, producer ...
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