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The short stories and essays from students and adults that took the top prizes in our annual writing competition.

Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to ...

This week’s story, “ The Readers ,” takes the form of a one-sided conversation between a male writer and a female therapist.

Raised by Ferns” is a welcome addition both to thought about lower-income rural life and to the expansion of what we may ...

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Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

More than two centuries after the death of writer and lyricist Robert Burns, his words are still recited around the world on New Year's Eve. Auld Lang Syne might be the Scot's most famous poem, but he ...