Four Writing Competitions to Watch
Here at Mountain Ash Chapter we’re seeing a lot of exceptional writing this year! It’s a great time to whip out your calendar, dust off …
A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
Rebecca Ross is one of the BookTok author success stories, but not for this book – A River Enchanted is one of her earlier works, …
Evening Song
for Sylvia Plath (Morning Song) Once upon a foreign timewe were bornour hearts ticked loudOur mothers fussed and frettedfearful our baby breaths would falterheard every …
The Bible
The Bible is out of sync. It does not flow and is clearly written by a variety of people from a vast cross section of …
Monkeys and Social Media
A couple of weeks ago, I visited the Jigokudani Monkey Park, in Nagano, Japan. The park is famous for the Japanese macaque monkeys who live …
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Book Review
The gorgeous cover got me in but that intriguing story pinned me down. Told over eight decades, this is the story of women’s friendship and …
This is Not a Poem
“This is not poetry!”my son shoutsthe darkness of his eyesswimming in outrage Because I can’t just arrangewords on the pageto make pretty shapesthe words have …
The Angry Women’s Choir by Meg Bignell
The title and cover of the book shouted, ‘read me’. I love books about change and hope especially if women are the protagonists. This book …
In The Shadow of the Mountain
Amidst the gum trees on the mountain, a profound sense of solace envelops the soul. The crisp mountain air carries whispers of eucalyptus, creating a …
The Summoning series by Kelley Armstrong
This trilogy landed fifteen years ago, and many book lovers now fondly recall these novels as part of their childhood awakening into fantasy and dark …