by RossYoung | Jul 13, 2020 | #WritersByNight, Poetry
Paper for children is like a mirror They see themselves in it They make faces in it They see things they wouldn’t otherwise see They make it reflect They hold it up to others But through their years at school The mirror is warped The mirror is cracked The mirror...
by TobiasHayden | Jul 13, 2020 | #WritersByNight, Biographies
I am writing about Joseph because he is living far away and writing about him helps me to remember him. Born on the day of the Grand National (a famous horse race) in 1987 at Torbay Hospital, Joseph was the fourth and final child of Martin and Joanna. When he was only...
by TobiasHayden | Jul 8, 2020 | #WritersByNight, Poetry
The Heron roars by my 4th floor balcony. I just glance up in time to see it. I swear I hear its body cutting through the air and its wings beating Pterodactyl-like. With a sagging neck bulge, it vanishes between the brick towers Down by the concrete slipway, where the...
by nicola | Jul 5, 2020 | #WritersByNight, Animals, Fiction
A Tail I wrote this 24-word story in response to the National Writing Day #247 Competition, alongside the other members of The John Roan Creative Writing Club. You can read my reflection on my first attempt and find out what inspired me here. I was determined to...
by RossYoung | Jul 5, 2020 | #WritersByNight, Poetry
Hope is the moment you open the fridge door. It’s turning into the next aisle in the supermarket when you’ve lost your Mum. Your brother’s old bike you know he’s outgrown. Hope is waiting for the pound you’ve dropped to land on the pier boardwalk. It’s the red sky at...
