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Splendor: An Anthology of Love
The great poet Rumi once said “There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.”
Love is a wild meadow, incorporating all kinds of relationships, from platonic to erotic, from motherly to worldly, from the cities we live in to the pets that rest at our feet. Love is a whole-heart action that forges the bonds necessary for humans to survive and thrive together. The meadow breathes in colors and soft waves, it holds dark shadows and underground roots, just the way love does. Love is an ecosystem to the world and essential for human survival.
In this fourth Writing Heights Writers Association anthology you’ll find beautiful, harrowing, truthful, humorous, and interesting works exploring the ways humans give love, accept love, seek it, or let go. Through story, poetry, and personal essay, our incredible list of writers has shared the powerful language of love in all its forms.
Love is a wild meadow, incorporating all kinds of relationships, from platonic to erotic, from motherly to worldly, from the cities we live in to the pets that rest at our feet. Love is a whole-heart action that forges the bonds necessary for humans to survive and thrive together. The meadow breathes in colors and soft waves, it holds dark shadows and underground roots, just the way love does. Love is an ecosystem to the world and essential for human survival.
In this fourth Writing Heights Writers Association anthology you’ll find beautiful, harrowing, truthful, humorous, and interesting works exploring the ways humans give love, accept love, seek it, or let go. Through story, poetry, and personal essay, our incredible list of writers has shared the powerful language of love in all its forms.
- GenresPoetry
343 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 28, 2025
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December 9, 2025
A beautiful collection* of fiction, CNF, and poetry about love in its many forms, familial, romantic , platonic, love of animals, love of country, and more. There are two short stories in here by David E. Sharp, “Flour Child” and “The Maple Ghost” that I particularly loved, and poems by Nina Naylor and Sandra McGarry are charming.
*I admit to being a bit partial because my modular memoir piece about my brother is included.
*I admit to being a bit partial because my modular memoir piece about my brother is included.
November 29, 2025
This is a beautiful collection of poetry and prose, mostly concentrating on the theme of love in all of its various flavors and entanglements. The coordinators did an excellent job of choosing the pieces (even tho they didn't choose mine!) and organizing them into a book that flows and was hard to put down. I appreciate that it is also beautifully formatted, making it easy to hold and read. Well done, Writing Heights!
March 15, 2026
Upfront, I have to say, I have a bias because my story, 'When Your Brother Returns,' is included.
Our remit was to submit work on the theme of love in all its forms (we were referred to the nine definitions given by the Greeks), resulting in an interesting mix of themes. As with all anthologies, there are differences in style and substance, so not all the pieces will be liked. However, overall, it will give the reader a chance to consider how love exists in our lives.
Our remit was to submit work on the theme of love in all its forms (we were referred to the nine definitions given by the Greeks), resulting in an interesting mix of themes. As with all anthologies, there are differences in style and substance, so not all the pieces will be liked. However, overall, it will give the reader a chance to consider how love exists in our lives.
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