PQ Weekly is a round-up of the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.
- Finnish students can reportedly learn to read in approximately three months. It takes English speakers three years to gain basic proficiency. The reason for this huge learning gap? The vagaries of English spelling.
- Every generation likes to think that the next one is butchering the language. Here are a few, from the printing press to Shakespeare, that people once complained would ruin the English language.
- From an interesting article on wordless novels: “Wordless novels do have words. They just take place in your head.”
- There is a strong shift toward listening to new voices in the publishing industry Here are seven women who are helping to encourage this diversity.
- Calling all student writers! The Writers Trust of Canada has a great opportunity to win some cash and a publication credit. See the guidelines for their literary nonfiction contest.
There you have it—the best of this week’s bookish content. Don’t forget to follow us on social media for more!
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Every good magazine supplies a comment area to voice the writer’s opinion. It’s important to me to communicate my ideas.
I cannot see where to blog or write articles, are you strictly a publishing company?
Also, it’s good to encourage young people to write but also include and encourage us older writers too.
The main reason for this message today is to let you know I appreciate the set-up of Porcupine Quill online. It’s great and competitive.
Thanks for your comment, Donna. We are strictly a publishing company, but we like to share motivation, writing tips and bookish news whenever possible. That said, we also want to hear from our readers. If you’d like to write a guest post to share your perspective on reading, writing, publishing etc., we could arrange to publish it here on our blog. Get in touch with me at pqlporcupettes@gmail.com and we can chat!
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Stephanie