This is just beautiful – Israeli newspaper Haaretz lets the authors take over

For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of his staff reporters home and sent 31 of Israel’s finest authors and poets to cover the day’s news.

How can you beat poet Roni Somek’s brief, lyrical weather report?

Summer is the pencil
that is least sharp
in the seasons’ pencil case.

Not much else from me lately. Alpha Slip passed the 50,000 word mark, and I finished university for the semester. My first how-to-write article will be finished soon. More at 11.

Best of luck to all those Aussie authors stuck in the winter doldrums!