About a decade ago, I went through a season of writing poems. It was instigated by the fact I was looking into college scholarships and discovered a website that gave scholarships for slam poetry. I wrote at least 10 poems and shared them in various places before I realized that the things I was writing …
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Last week, I shared an article I initially wrote for a Fellowship & Fairydust Christmas collection. While that article didn't make the final cut, one article did, a memory of listening to Christmas music out of my parent's stereo system. This being the Christmas season, Fellowship & Fairydust decided to republish the article on their …
Back in 2021, I wrote a review of The Most Reluctant Convert directed by Norman Stone. I think I can safely say it was an unusual review, if for no other reason because I didn't find the movie as strange as some of my friends found it. But I'd seen the one-man stage play it …
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I wrote in one of my last posts about my funny journey from knowing barely anything about Shakespeare to writing a 6,000ish word essay on Macbeth movies for the latest issue of An Unexpected Journal. On December 17, 2022, I got to take part in a conversation with the other contributors about their essays, as …
This is a lot more leg than I’m comfortable showing, I thought as I switched into my work uniform. It’s Christmas 2018. I am working as a waiter at a Christmas feast put on at a castle in Colorado built by a Civil War general. My uniform was breeches, calf-high white socks, leather shoes, a …
I am not by any standard a Shakespeare expert. I had some exposure to the Bard in eighth grade English when we all sat down to watch via Kenneth Branagh's 2006 film As You Like It... without having read the play. Given that this movie shifts the material in some surprising ways (moving the setting …
I had the interesting experience of discovering The Screwtape Letters as a play before I read the book. I saw it in 2013, a production by Fellowship for the Performing Arts (thanks to the magic of online archives, I know the exact date I saw the play). At some point in the years between 2013 …
I don't post a lot of humor on my website, though I've dabbled, posting pieces like "Worst Descriptions of Classic Speculative Fiction Books." Recently though, a writer's group I belong to challenged each other to write Christmas satire pieces. Around that time, I accidentally volunteered to write an article about Christmas Movies on Netflix in …
Author's Note: I wrote this Christmas article in November 2021 when I was assembling some pieces to send to Fellowship & Fairydust for its Winter 2021 newsletter. It presented an interesting opportunity to take a review I'd originally written in 2012 for a short-lived high school newspaper and expand it into something else. A different …
G. Connor Salter 