I’ve made my career out of asking questions. After almost half a century in journalism, questioning people has become such an ingrained habit that my wife tells me I’m a collector of lives (which sounds like I'm a serial killer...which I'm not, for clarification). In contrast, you’d be surprised how many people don’t ask questions of other people, whether it’s because of shyness, lack of interest, or that their focus is inwards and they only like to talk about themselves. Yet

Danger often wears many disguises: a gunman on the loose hiding in a hotel, the fury of white-water rapids or the smile of a stranger on a lonely roadside. Three writers, Kathy Judge, Brenda Lightle and Judy Holm, used such varied scenarios to create their stories and become finalists in our Wild Atlantic Writing Awards (WAWA) competition on the theme of ‘danger.’ Brenda Lightle A stranger’s kindness can sometimes hide menace. For Brenda Lightle who lives near Seattle, it s

Germany, the US, England and Ireland - an array of participants from different countries attended varied writing workshops in our latest...