Announcing a new writing contest!

November 2024

NQ and WritersNL are teaming up to present NL’s first creative non-fiction writing contest – essay, memoir, biography, travelogue, long-form journalism, or an excerpt from a longer piece are all up for submission. Open to anyone over 18 – but the content must have some relevance and connection to NL. 2500 words, submitted by February 10, 2025, to info@writersnl.ca
Good luck writers! We look forward to seeing your work.

The Grammarians War

If I understand this correctly, The Grammarians War was a 16th-century, Tudor-era conflict (1519-1521) between rival methods of teaching Latin. The opposing sides were led, respectively, by schoolmasters William Horman (of…