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Returning home with wounds, some visible and some otherwise. Im going to speak a little bit tonight about that and read a few things. Its a lot of territory and we will make the best we can with our time. I think that we have a little feedback there. The title that we use is in the ceremony and the willingness of healing the wounds of the war. Actually i made that im not quite up im not quite sure what it means but we will chip away at that. The trauma of the war we talk about it so much today t...

Writer Of The Week: Angie Keeler By You can read Angie’s latest poem in our Special out now. Your poem “Gardener’s Friend” is featured in our latest Special. What inspired you to write it? As a gardener, I try to be as organic as possible by allowing nature’s many creatures places to thrive. When some garden visitors are less helpful, I remind myself that they provide food for other animals and insects. While walking around my small garden, I noticed a small group of aphids clustered...

Writer of the Week: Dawn Lawrence By You can find some of Dawn’s poetry in The Fireside Book 2021. Have you always loved to write? When did you know that you wanted to write professionally? The habit comes from schooldays when I wrote funny poems to make my class laugh! But I also loved essay writing. I always wanted to write professionally, especially poetry, but since I spent hours reading classical poetry, my verses were much out of date. Publishers wanted “something original”? What w...

Like a lot of workplaces, the “Friend” office runs a Secret Santa every Christmas. When we were all still in the office, this involved picking a colleague’s name out of a hat, and heading off into town to pick them up a gift. The gifts would go under the office tree until Christmas Eve, when we’d get together to open them before heading off for lunch. It was exciting! Photograph courtesy of “The People’s Friend” A little different But that didn’t stop us! Fiction team’s Abbie...