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Galahad and the Grail by Malcom Guite

What treasure has been hauled up from the ancient wells in this outing—the Arthur stories re-Christianized after so much balkanization, a myth for England proffered at an hour of dire need, but also the poetic epic resuscitated as a fit mode for history, for fantasy, for fun. This book teems with a vitality rarely found in contemporary work because it can’t be: its older than that, deeper than the green of upland hills, sweeter than festival-tide communion wine, but also rough, and brave, and strange as a stone circle, and older magic still.  

Inkwell Interview on Writing Programs

Three seasoned writers who have given a great deal of thought to training Christian writers are Mischa Willett, director of the Whitworth Writers Workshop, and James Matthew Wilson and Joshua Hren, cofounders of the MFA in creative writing at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

The Habit w/ Jonathan Rogers

How can we equip a new generation of writers?

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  • DLJ on Willett

    "An absolutely distinctive voice, angular, refractory, often unsettling in flashes of psychological and spiritual insights...A remarkable volume."

    David Lyle Jeffrey

  • JKAS on Willett is best Christian poet

    "Dwell in the lilt of Willett's play. He's dead serious and death-defying."

    James K.A. Smith

  • BM TGC Willett Christian Poets

    "Displays the capacity of poetic language to remind us of the world--its everyday glory and profound peculiarity--that gets lost in the noise."

    Brett McCracken

  • Guite on best Anglican Poet Mischa Willett

    "Here is a striking and original collection which responds to both our biblical and poetic heritage with a fresh contemporary voice."

    Malcom Guite