The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...

Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman breathes and thrives in connotations. It sighs into submission of a life spent, which has been full of unrequited dreams and passions given short shrift. Sad Letters ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

I love short stories and have read nearly all key short story books from the rest of the southern African sub region. But, I ...

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s ...

Born in a small town, Patti Smith always had bigger dreams than that. Her move to New York City in the 1960s was the start of ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

"I was feeling so sad that I couldn't spend time with my family ... she was impressed by the fact it said he write poetry. She asked him to send her his poems and was very impressed by how ...