A murmuration

– Poetry by Rosemary Herbert –

First Place Winner of the 2024 Dreamers Haiku Contest!

A murmuration
of starlings, fans dark gossip
with whispering wings.

About the Author – Rosemary Herbert

Rosemary Herbert’s wide-ranging writings encompass poetry, journalism, reference books, and mystery and mainstream fiction. She has reviewed for the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post, contributed interviews to The Paris Review and Harvard Review, and served as book review editor and garden columnist at the Boston Herald. Her work was selected as a “Notable Poem” in the Radar Poetry Coniston Prize competition, and is published in Radar Poetry, Beyond Words Literary Magazine and in Tiny Seed Literary Journal and their Poetry of the Wild Flowers anthology. More is forthcoming The Last Milkweed anthology (Tupelo Press, 2025). She resides in Akron, Ohio, where she also pursues ceramic arts.

As the Edgar Award-nominated editor in chief of The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing and the editor of several mystery anthologies, Rosemary’s thrilling mystery novel is Front Page Teaser: A Liz Higgins Mystery. Her other books in the mystery genre include The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, Whodunnit? A Who’s Who in Crime & Mystery Writing; Murder on Deck! Shipboard & Shoreline Mystery Stories; A New Omnibus of Crime;” and Twelve American Crime Stories.

Meanwhile, at Dreamers…

Dreamers Writing Farm

I pick up this morning’s newspaper and read another article about displaced Ukrainians, whose lives have been upended by a war instigated by Russia.

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Last chance! Stories of Place, Home, and the Meaning of Dreaming

The deadline for the Dreamers Writing Contest on place and home is January 31. Submit a heartfelt story, poem, or essay reflecting on belonging, memory, displacement, or the meaning of home. Open internationally. $250 CAD prize and publication.

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