The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) is proud to announce the winners of The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition (QCEC) 2025, the world’s oldest international writing competition for schools.

Magritte’s apples, dreamscapes of the unconscious, fur-covered teacups, Carrington’s painterly visions, and more from the 101-year-old movement.

On Thursday, Nov. 6 and Friday, Nov. 7, the Great Lakes Writers Festival will bring two published authors, Maggie Su and Albert Abonado, to Lakeland University. The festival invites students and the ...

For another, The New Yorker provided encouragement and an outlet for nonacademic authority to flourish; it was a place where all those serious amateurs could write about the Dead Sea Scrolls or ...

The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) has announced the recipients of The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition (QCEC) for 2025, recognized as the oldest international essay contest for school ...

Gibraltar Cultural Services is highlighting its writing initiative in a celebration of literature during the Gibraltar Literary Festival. Earlier this year Sheridan Povedano was selected for the GCS ...

Poet, musician, and educator Yolanda Wisher has long drawn inspiration from the everyday rhythms of life and death in ...

Whispers of Home was written at a time when the idea of home had begun to fracture. Borders hardened, language turned defensive, and public compassion grew thin. The poem arose from that atmosphere ...

Janet DeNeefe argues her festival operates outside the publishing cycles that often inform who is programmed at such events.

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied the inequalities of enslavement.

Keeping the showcase in English, however, is by design, as the poets believe that the language is the bridge that will ...

Our 10 recommended books for November include a memoir from Margaret Atwood and a new novel from John Irving that revisits a ...