Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog (archive)

After all that talk below about pen names, I couldn't help thinking of a wonderful tradition of pen names dating back to...well, at least the Victorian era, when it was reinvented: the Welsh tradition of the Eisteddfod (history here). This annual event--which would have made the perfect subject for a National Poetry Month post, if I hadn't been god-awfully busy--allegedly dates back to at least the Renaissance if not the Middle Ages. Traditionally, an Eisteddfod was a literary competition…

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