By Brian Michael Barbeito I had been writing things for a long time, and some of the forms were poems, short stories, essays, flash fiction, and even experimental novelettes. And I thought, why don’t I publish some in literary magazines…
By: April Mae M. Berza I stopped working in the corporate world since I really wanted to pursue freelance writing, editing and proofreading, and translation. I won’t say it’s a wise decision, but it’s something I take pride in and would…
By Taehoon Noh What makes a good writer? Determining what constitutes a good writer is a multifaceted and subjective inquiry. It is a question that often yields diverse and occasionally conflicting responses. While the definition of a “good writer” may…
Novels and movies have a very close relationship. From the very beginning, filmmakers have resorted to novels to make motion pictures. And when you see some famous examples like “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, “The Girl with the…
By Heewoo Jung Lovebirds is a collection that contains multiple short stories by Hananah Zaheer in which she touches on various social problems from an individual level to a societal level. In her short story “Willow Tree Fever,” Zaheer uses…
By: Ramlal Agarwal Staying On is a very poignant novel about a British couple that decides to stay in India after the British have left India and returned home. It was not a joint decision but one taken by the…
By: Suveeksha Viswanathan Of my days spent in reclusion or so it seems, the confinement that I subjected myself to was of the crazy kind if not the kind that leaves your artifices bare. Raw talent as you may call…
By Debra J. White Home was a shabby brick apartment building in a working class, scrappy New York City neighborhood where families, even large ones, were packed into cramped quarters. I always knew I’d get old but it happened so…
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of cultural and artistic flourishing in the African American community in New York City from the 1920s to the early 1930s. It was a time of great creativity and experimentation, and many talented writers…
Ecocriticism is a relatively new field of literary criticism that has left a lasting impact – not only in poetry circles but in environmental and sustainability circles. Ecocriticism claims to examine the relationship between literature and the environment. It emerged…