Artwork: Harmeet Singh & Rachna Singh

Editor Speak

September 2023

Carmine & Gold Edition of The Wise Owl, offers a rich literary and artistic repast for our dear readers and viewers. It is woven together with the energy and passion associated with the colour carmine.

We have insightful interviews with Sandra Beasley, an award-winning American poet, Alokparna Das, an award-winning Indian writer and Michael Solovyev, a renowned watercolour artist from Canada. Their creative journeys are an inspiration for all literary & art lovers. We also talk to Sonia Chauhan, a budding writer about her recently released book 'This Maze of Mirrors', which was awarded the second prize in Amazon Pen to Publish Awards. Poetry, stories, musings, reviews, visual arts and podcasts brighten up our creatively put-together ezine.

Happy reading!!!

The INTERVIEWS

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Sandra Beasley
A Poet & Writer

Alokparna Das
An Award-winning writer

Michael Solovyev
A watercolour artist

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

TALKING BOOKS

With Sonia Chauhan

VISUAL ARTS

Podcasts

Podcast of Poems and Stories

Why the long face?
Cat Dixon

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The temperature of a loner Michael Colon

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River Run
Jan Wiezorek

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Untagged & Wiped Out
Kavita Ratna

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Montage

Perhaps by Myself

A FIlm by Sebin Louis

Awarded the Wise Owl Critics Award for literary, social & Artistic relevance

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About the Filmmaker

Sebin Louis is a third year B.A. English Literature student of St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Kerala. He is incredibly interested in cinema and literature and has an urge to tell stories through these mediums that combine his personal conflicts with his political and philosophical views in a way that reflects the working of his mind. Sebin has made four short films out of which three have won prizes including one that won a National-Level short filmmaking competition conducted by the Hindu College, Delhi University.