This week’s pick is a poem from the collection, How To Forget, which the author calls “a book of short steps and long walks ...

Her debut short story collection, Code Noir, won the 2024 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and was also shortlisted for the 2024 ...

Students in this literature course read a range of novels, short stories and more on grave robbing, murder, terror and grief.

Paul Dalgarno is author of the novels A Country of Eternal Light (2023) and Poly (2020); the memoir And You May Find Yourself ...

Thursday, October 2 marked National Poetry Day 2025, with local poets showcasing their “unique voice” on the big screen. The ...

This story was originally published in The Kyiv Independent's first-ever print edition, titled "The Power Within." You can ...

Encinitas therapist Kristen Hornung has self-published her first book of poetry, “Too Jagged to Hold”. The deeply personal collection takes readers on her long and ongoing journey of recovery from ...

Grief is the shadow cast by love. It arrives uninvited, often when the flame of life dims or disappears altogether. In those moments, the world can feel unbearably dark. But even in the deepest night, ...

I do not want to intrude on their grief or reach out if it would be unwelcome. At the same time, I feel lost without any ...

New Arcana (Bloodaxe £12) is Jessica Traynor ’s striking, ambitious elegy for an old school friend who died by suicide and ...

Best known for her genre-blending horror novels, Cynthia Pelayo's "White Tiger: Reborn," written with Daniel José Older, tells the story of Ava Ayala, the new White Tiger.

Losing a loved one leaves people reeling. It forces the body to reconfigure deep bonds and impacts health. One Colorado River retreat aims to help.