by Administrator | Oct 23, 2020 | Readers & Writers
It is day ten of my fourteen-day quarantine, and I am on the eleventh floor of The Splaisir Hotel in Myeongdong, Seoul, one of the busiest shopping districts on earth. This is one of many hotels within range of Incheon International Airport that is being used by the...
by Administrator | Oct 8, 2020 | Readers & Writers
COVID-19 has brought many changes to life as we knew it, and in many ways, schools are on the front line. As a former school librarian, I decided to find out how librarians in some of our local secondary schools are managing to reach students in spite of pandemic...
by Administrator | Jul 14, 2020 | Quick Reads
For all my life, one true thing can be said: great writing comes from my sadness. Even in my deepest despair, there is always a voice in the back of my head, pen and paper at the ready, whispering ‘remember this for later’. I am not alone in this, of course, as we...
by Administrator | Jun 23, 2020 | Quick Reads
The lockdown started so fast that it caught us by surprise. Still, we realised the importance of literature and information that we were bringing to our audience, so there was basically no way that we could stop in our tracks. Like most institutions, we immediately...
by Administrator | Jun 17, 2020 | Quick Reads
Mandatory quarantine surprised us in mid-March. Our eight-person team working in the Kraków Festival Office, an operator of the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature title has been separated not only from the daily routine, but also from each other. Immediately it turned...
