Seven Gift Ideas For The Poet On Your List, by J.R. Selmi

Seven Gift Ideas For The Poet On Your List, by J.R. Selmi

Whether it’s for an upcoming holiday or a birthday, here are 7 gift ideas for celebrating the main poet in your life—from the unique to the necessary—that they will love. Empower Tools    Let them know their poetry is better than that cheap plastic stapler they’ve had...
A Case for Fanfiction, By Kaitlin Hatman

A Case for Fanfiction, By Kaitlin Hatman

Fanfiction has a certain stigma in the literary community as being Less Than original works, written by tweens with Mary Sue’s and self inserts, or just riddled with typos and clichés, but it fulfills two very specific purposes in the lives of young writers and...
Is Sexualizing A Character So Bad? By Maya Wesman

Is Sexualizing A Character So Bad? By Maya Wesman

Writers often hear about how sexualizing a character reduces them to nothing, and that no one will take them seriously. Many argue that a character can’t be both empowering for the reader, and sexual. I reject that notion. I challenge that idea. Let’s take a character...