President delivers mix of eulogy and campaign speech while JD Vance calls Kirk ‘martyr for the Christian faith’

She received a devastating diagnosis in 2020 but now feels "healthy, strong and alive"

Dr Marie Maynard Daly, the first Black woman to earn a chemistry PhD in America, discusses her groundbreaking research linking cholesterol to heart disease and her pioneering work on DNA structure.…

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from the album Joy Division Covers by Scottish Artists

Cafe Writers featuring Amanda Dalton and Kathy Pimlott

Rightly or wrongly, I’ve largely come to regard references to witchcraft as nonsense that produces films for Hammer House of Horror or, as in this case, an embarrassing and sad aspect of our …

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Sometimes as an indie author you need to withdraw their book from sale at Amazon.com. Maybe you’ve come up with a new cover or have rewritten the book and don’t want the older version up for sale. …

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Last year we had our first Christmas Annual, and it went down so well that I thought it would be daft, even by my standards, not to make it an err, annual Annual. So this month's Challenge is to write a wee Christmas poem that has a hopefilled message for one and all in the form of a Christmas Wish.

Children invited to write pea-themed poems for Great British Pea Week contest, with prizes and a pea viner naming honour.

Edinburgh’s Makar has paid tribute to the enduring influence of his friend, the musician Scott Hutchinson, years after his death by suicide.

Fisher-Wirth hopes to launch several public projects, including an online series where Mississippians can read and reflect on their favorite poems.

“Peacock Spine Debut Collection Competition” - A Poetry Pamphlet Competition Win the chance to see your Debut collection of  poems, published beautifully in one of our rather lovely pamphlets Deadline: 31st July 2025 The Winning Pamphlet will be published during 2026

“Pocket Hedgehog Micro Collection Competition” - A Poetry Pamphlet Competition Win the chance to see your Micro collection of  poems, published beautifully in one of our rather lovely pamphlets Deadline: 31st July 2025 The Winning Pamphlet will be published during 2026

Kavya Kapadia explores the politicised publication of Doctor Zhivago, the Cold War, and writing amidst governmental attempts to silence.