Saved by the Beauty of the World” works best when it illuminates her work, whose fans include Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey.

Lucknow: A surgeon helping abandoned patients reunite with their families, a chest physician who is also a bodybuilder and dancer, an interventional radiologist who unwinds with championship badminton ...

Literary giants are typically regarded with an almost sacred reverence. For the 20th Ukrainian poet Mykhail Semenko, however, ...

Our fourth Script Essentials session was hosted by Karen Featherstone with writers Nk'iru. Njoku and Benjamin Bee talking about their writing process, how they deal with deadlines and organise their ...

Poetry therapy is often used nowadays in mental health settings for healing and growth. Patients read and write poetry to find new ways of being mindful or relaxed. Poetry can point to the work they ...

You can ask us your Poetry Prize questions and engage directly with the CBC Books team by clicking the 'Join the Conversation' button above. We know that submitting to a literary prize can be a ...

You can ask us your Poetry Prize questions and engage directly with the CBC Books team by clicking the 'Join the Conversation' button above. The 2026 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting ...

In “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits,” an essay published in 2013, the writer and translator Lydia Davis offers a cardinal rule: “work on your character.” (She happened on a variation of ...

On a Monday evening in March 1958, the poet Sylvia Plath wrote herself a note for the morning: “Must be up early, to laundry & steal more pink pads of paper tomorrow.” At the time, she was working as ...

Josie Glausiusz is a freelance science journalist who has written about the healing power of poetry for The Washington Post. With family at bedside,/ and the beau’s guitar/ filling the room,/ the leaf ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Myra Deshmukh, the 39-year-old founder of Leadership Lab and a former Amazon employee living in Montclair, New Jersey. It has been edited for ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Illinois State chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. Although my high school creative writing class sparked my ...