Sitemap - 2023 - when hope writes
Guest post: "Anaïs Nin: A Pageant of Phantoms" by Rehan Qayoom
There is still whole here: a review of Sarah Sousa’s Hex
Collation of writing at when hope writes
If you are in need of righteous fire
Become a proverb à la Ahti from Control
Guest post: "Professional tips from a newborn girl" by Ricardo Oliveira
Write a poem about an endangered animal
Guest post: Peter J. Kenvin's analysis of Observer
Alan Wake II mini poetic review
Guest Post: "Book Covers: Mistakes to Avoid for Authors & Designers" by Claire L. Smith
Grim Fandango: it's poetry night at the Blue Casket
Fifteen evocative words to inspire your creativity
On seasons and our season of life
Make your own rustic eggs "Benedict"
Where the Crawdads Sing is a flawed yet poetic, gorgeous, fairytale-like movie
"I'll be back!" — Michael Scott
Guest post: "Saved" by Alexander Ipfelkofer
Six films that will make you feel all kinds of strange
Bianca XZ sings on riding into the sunset
Flash fiction "Siren with the soft sign"
Guest post: artwork by Ruthie @ Ruthie Writes
"Interview with the Ghost," a poem spurred by Phasmophobia
It was summer magic in Somerville
Guest Post: "Your Heart, in a Thimble and on its Way to the Thinnest Home in the World" by Pat Foran
Guest Post: "Funeral Blues, or Farewell, My Dear Teacher" by Andrei Atanasov
Guest post: "Tarkovsky, alone." by Lonely Robot Theme
Submitting to publications etiquette
Guest post: collages by Ana Prundaru
Adrienne Shelly: a brilliant talent and human who was and who could have been
Guest Post: Cheryl Strayed: Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty
"Witch’s Chiaroscuro," a short story exploring the experiences of SAD (seasonal affective disorder)
Guest post: "The Bionic Elbow: On Fathers, Sons, and the American Dream" by Michael Chin
"The Nuances of Pain and Soul," a creative non-fiction piece on chronic pain
Guest post: "you must take the olive, you must shoulder your Dead." by ars poetica
Music to heighten your peak experiences
On video games, humanity, loneliness, the personal, and Death Stranding at the heart of it all
Guest post: "Anaïs in London" by Rehan Qayoom
Write tender poems and feel how your heart swells with love and gratitude
Giveaway: BURN THE WITCH by Aïcha Martine
Fun animal-based idioms in Russian to send you on a wild goose chase
Ten photographs to inspire your creativity
"Returning Home," an experimental flash inspired by the award-winning roguelike game Returnal
Guest post: Scream 6 review by Peter J. Kenvin
An after poem to a song from The Lost Boys
Guest post: "Vocal Frying the 2nd POV" by J.A. Pak
Obligatory post-Soviet couch photo and other pictures of mini me
Elisapie releases a delicate cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass"
"She comes / she goes," an after poem on unrequited love
The Last of Us DLC does narrative better
Celebrating my first monthaversary on Substack with some tips
Seventeen untranslatable words to inspire your writing
Best TV shows on Apple TV+ with immersive storytelling
"Game of Horror," a poem inspired by the acclaimed survival horror experience Song of Horror
Flash fiction “I Dream Of Horses”
Surviving winter sky with a-ha
7 YouTube channels to watch to broaden your horizons
"The Swallow," a song of endurance & freedom
Fifteen vivid words to inspire a poem in you
Maybe someday we'll get another Resident Evil adaptation
Feel-good 2022 Christmas movies to watch in February 2023
A mourning of not becoming a mother
Writer's block? Try these 5 creative writing prompts