
Fiction and folklore: A match made in reader heaven
My love affair with folklore started with a small book from a Northumbrian castle. It was more of a pamphlet, really - a handful of pages in a cardboard cover, ...
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Five ways to defeat writers’ block
I’ve had to dust off my keyboard for this blog because it’s been so long since I last wrote. I have projects on the horizon but getting my head around ...
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Why you should read more novellas
It’s just under a month until the end of the year, and those Goodreads Reading Challenge deadlines are looming. Back in January, when you were young, bright-eyed, innocent, filled with ...
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Get to know Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature silver winner, Toby Bennett
Last month, one of our members, Toby Bennett, was awarded the Silver Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2019 (in the English category). We thought you might like to get to ...
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Revisiting Twilight – Was it really that bad?
Ask people about the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. Go on, I’ll wait. I’m willing to bet you got the same answer I did. With the exception of a neutral ...
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Get to know Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature winner, Nerine Dorman
Tonight, one of our very own founding mother, Nerine Dorman, was awarded the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2019. We thought you might like to get to know Nerine a ...
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Fighting the story teller’s expectations
It’s six in the morning and I’m wide awake. As tired as my body is, my mind is already running in circles. It’s a writer’s mind whatever else might be ...
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Reading challenges to try
My husband walked into the lounge yesterday, looked around and said, with a sigh, "We have a lot of books." "Yes," I said, "Isn't it wonderful? We can pick them ...
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Hitting the right note: how music influences my writing
Music has always been a huge part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are listening to Mozart with my grandfather or wiggling away to Elvis with my parents ...
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Short Story: Beans by Laurie Janey
This week, we have a very special feature - one of the stories from "Charon's Song", a collection of stories by the writers of Skolion. Here follows "Beans", by Laurie ...
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