Congratulations Arne Wester ❤️🎉👏😘Our author Arne Wester has won a short story contest in Sweden and we are so happy and proud.Keep up the good work, Arne.This fall Arne’s book Moments/Ögonblick/Øjeblik will be released in three languages and we can’t wait for you to read it! More information and press release will come shortly. Until we can give you more information about the release, here are the links for his winner contribution and also an interview
It is early morning at Alingsås station. I sit in the waiting room among other early-morning travelers and think about the literary qualities of the station environment. No one belongs here, yet everyone belongs here, and everyone is on their way somewhere, but right now we are waiting. In waiting, anything can happen, or absolutely nothing. Nowadays, waiting means that 99% of those waiting are busy on their mobile phone. I have no opinion about
Take your health into your own hands. Did you know that more women die from Alzheimer’s disease than breast cancer in the UK and Australia? Or that a 45-year-old woman has a one in five chance of developing Alzheimer’s before she dies, compared to a man’s one in ten chance? If these statistics are new to you, you’re not alone. Women are suffering from an Alzheimer’s epidemic, and it’s getting worse. Unfortunately, so far, the
Writing is mainly about creating something out of nothing. It is the same with drawing – on an empty surface, a figure, a landscape, or just a shape should appear. No wonder then that it can sometimes feel hopeless. There is not even a drawing to refer to, no assembly instructions, and no formulation of goals from a high place. Every time it’s like starting from scratch. It is not without the fact that you
Get to know Montaigne and one of the most influential books ever written. What’s the first thing you think about when you hear the word “essay”? For many of us, it’s probably one of those formulaic papers we had to write back in our school days. But those snooze fests are a far cry from the original Essays – the first works of writing to be given that name. Written by Michel de Montaigne in the sixteenth