Getting crafty: the 2025 roundup of our favourite craft articles
Warning: This post may include robots
We published some great craft articles this year, so we decided to round off 2025 by revisiting some of them. These are our favourite pieces, and do something special to illuminate some aspect of writing.
Hurt us a little
To open a piece we’ve been sent and be dazzled by the wit and imagery, the perfectly crafted stanzas, the richly textured layers of meaning… well, all I can say is that it is a priceless experience...
In Your Own Voice
Guest post from Seán McNicholl, a good friend and an excellent writer. You can read Seán’s Pushcart-nominated story A Different Day in Issue 1 of Frazzled Lit.
Easy to say, hard to do
Guest post from Mark Burrow, whose story No Thief I greatly admired in Issue 1 of Frazzled Lit.
I feel you, broBot...
It’s all about people… or cats or dogs or robots or AI-powered rocket ships, but to hold my interest, you need to make me care about them or hate them or evoke some hint of passion from my human heart.
Listen up, this is important!
If there is a meaning to a piece, then, I think it must first and foremost arise out of, and belong to, the protagonist.
