by Kelsey McFaul | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
UnBreakable Bonds: Literary Ecosystems in Africa The 2019 theme for the Writivism Literary Festival in Kampala, Uganda—“UnBreakable Bonds” —began with a question: what does it mean to be a prize competition, and by extension a publisher, only open to writers living on...
by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Spanish is Not a Foreign Language: Publishing and National Identity In 2018, the Latinx population in the United States reached 59.9 million.[1] Given the current climate of fear and uncertainty created by the policies of the Trump administration toward immigrant...
by Juliana Roth | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
The Mentor It’s early morning in Los Angeles as I walk a side street to a coffee shop to work on a revision of this essay. I’m listening to the audio version of the article “An Epidemic of Disbelief,” a story unearthing the patterns of institutional negligence by the...
by A.M. Genova | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
“Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii”: Replication and the Art of the Senses “Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii” is a marble sculpture designed by Randolph Rogers [1825–1892], and reproduced in two sizes for 167 copies. “Nydia” portrays how narratives can...
by Ethan Wedel | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Commentary on Ode 1.37 by Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC), known to the anglophone world as Horace, was a Roman lyric poet. Published between 23 BC and 13 BC, his Odes are a collection of praise songs, adapted principally from earlier Greek lyrics, on...
by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Books and Electronic Media Today, books are increasingly available to us in formats other than the printed volume. At the same time, the communal activity of the book club is adapting to the current technological age: Authors are establishing Facebook groups and...
