Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Bonus Sunday CNF Essay: Horror in the Hallowed Halls of the Academy
This piece is part of a collection of lyric essays that I wrote under the gentle and generous supervision of Becky Blake. U of T has a terrific Creative Writing Program Certificate through Continuing Studies; it was a valuable introduction, for me, to providing and receiving writing workshop feedback. My MFA, starting in May, will…
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World Poetry Day 2026: Lowther, Atwood, Carson and Classical Mythology
I read Erin Shields‘s Ransacking Troy in one great gulp this morning, and it’s a bracing way to start the day. As in her previous work, Shields’s play is reconsidering familiar stories from a feminist perspective in order to recuperate what has been lost or silenced. Her efforts extend from Greek mythology to the present,…
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Colin Dexter’s Oxford and Nora Kelly’s Cambridge (by Way of Cryptic Crosswords)
I’ve just ordered a niche item, Colin Dexter’s Cracking Cryptic Crosswords. The late detective novelist, who spent his early career teaching Classics, was also a famed creator of crossword puzzles of a type that British audiences appreciate far more than American ones. A recent New Yorker piece describes how Wordle creator Josh Wardle has created…
