Announcing a new writing contest!

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…

Dale Jarvis: No place name happened by accident

What can be embedded in a place name (linguistically, historically, descriptively, narratively)? An astonishing amount of information can be packed into something as simple as a place name. They can…

Memory

BY Florence Button

    Shining dully from the coffers of the soul Leaning hard against the heart. Mute testimony. Memories from the moulds of yesterday. A silent, siren call Glimpses of sacred…