Quill + Chorus

~ It’s been a long week. My school assignments race one after each other like wild horses, each on a mission to grab my attention. My body aches, sweat clouding my back and face after my ballet class and rehearsal.

Although October is a month of change, as leaves whirl in riots of colour, it is also the month when monotony sets in, at least for me. My days rush by, one following the next with little to distinguish them.

Hello! I am so glad you are interested in submitting work for Quill + Chorus! Currently, I am looking for submissions for the November edition. Quill + Chorus Theme (updated the 15th of each month) Our theme for November will

Ah, Mark Antony. The suave, manipulative Roman politician, most well known for his outburst in Julius Caesar, where he somehow managed to turn the opinion of an entire crowd to Caesar’s favor. How exactly did this crowd, throbbing with zeal

As the new school year marches in, we pick up our Shakespeare plays again. However, Shakespeare can be intimidating – what are all these strange words and phrases? Perhaps reading Shakespeare with another family or our co-op would be better,

Imagine looking down from a window in a London house onto a bustling street. Street urchins, pocketing pilfered goods, dart between women in long, full skirts and men sporting bright doublets. A cart rattles across the cobblestones, and a hasty

“…I don’t just go to a Shakespeare play to see it, I also want to hear it, enjoy Shakespeare’s word play, the rhyme, the rhythm, the assonance. Yes, I like the poetry. I don’t remotely think it elevates me. It’s

The scritch-scratch of pencil across paper is a rare sound these days. It has been replaced with the familiar clicking of keys as fingers furiously pound out letters onto a screen. Although typing certainly has its place, handwriting is becoming