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Virginia Woolf on Writing, Reading, Literature, and More

Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf! Here’s a compilation of quotes from some of Woolf’s many books, letters, diaries, and essays: …

Happy birthday, Gillian Cummings! Celebrate by reading Cummings’s “Four Poems,” which we published in 2020! The Faint Bells Calling…

Happy birthday, Susan Sontag! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Literature is dialogue; responsiveness. Literature might be…

Happy birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.! Here are some quotes from the civil and human rights activist: “The…

We are delighted to announce Big Other‘s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awardees! The award honors exemplary living writers, who have…

By Kristin Dykstra One morning in late November, 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge watched the sun rise. Then a mass…

Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston! Here are some quotes from the author: “If writers were too wise, perhaps…

Happy birthday, Umberto Eco! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Show not what has been done, but…

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions published in 2021 for inclusion in Sonder Press‘s The Best Small Fictions…

Happy birthday, Nick Francis Potter! Here’s “Regarding,” originally published in Big Other on March 13, 2019.