• Craft and Advice

    Conversations

    What Trauma Leaves Behind

    By Carley Moore  March 15, 2019
    Essay

    Why My Students Don’t Call Themselves ‘Southern’ Writers

    By Katy Simpson Smith  March 13, 2019
    How to...

    The Impossibility of Finding a Place to Write in New York

    By Andrew Ridker  March 13, 2019
    Essay

    Writing My Novel Turned into Cooking Boot Camp

    By Mary Adkins  March 13, 2019
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of Jack Kerouac’s Advice to Writers

    By Emily Temple  March 12, 2019
    Advice

    Storytelling Tips from the Writer of Blade Runner

    By Hampton Fancher  March 12, 2019
    Essay

    Waiting for the Day That Characters Don’t Default to White

    By Deena ElGenaidi  March 12, 2019
    Advice

    Saunders, McCracken, and More: Advice from Masters of the Short Story

    By Literary Hub  March 11, 2019
    Advice

    Poetic Advice From Tony Hoagland: You Can Find Voice Anywhere

    By Tony Hoagland  March 7, 2019
    Events

    Garth Greenwell on What It Means to Live the Writer’s Life

    By Garth Greenwell  March 6, 2019
    Advice

    Louisa May Alcott’s Letter of Advice to a Young Writer

    By Emily Temple  March 6, 2019
    Conversations

    Helen Oyeyemi on Her Favorite Books and TV Shows

    By Literary Hub  March 5, 2019
    Excerpts

    16 Things Joel Golby is Afraid Of

    By Joel Golby  March 5, 2019
    Essay

    On the Obsessions of the Literary Biographer

    By Lucasta Miller  March 5, 2019
    Essay

    Even After Writing My Novel, Shame Kept Me From Sharing My Story

    By Etaf Rum  March 5, 2019
    Essay

    Has the New Dark Age Begun Yet?

    By Peter Fleming  March 4, 2019
    Essay

    Seeing the World (and Writing It) with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

    By Craig Russell  March 4, 2019
    Essay

    Shedding Books to Survive the Uncertainty of Academic Life

    By Maggie Levantovskaya  March 1, 2019
    Advice

    5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Cleveland

    By Grace Roberson  March 1, 2019
    Essay

    What If I Wasn’t Meant to Be a Novelist?

    By Aaron Shulman  February 28, 2019
    Essay

    What Scott McCloud Taught Us About Internet Storytelling

    By Sarah Rosenthal  February 25, 2019
    Essay

    The Epidemic of Thinking There’s Only One African Writer

    By Yewande Omotoso  February 22, 2019
    Criticism

    On David Foster Wallace’s Obsession With Failure

    By Ryan Lackey  February 21, 2019
    Essay

    How to Free Yourself From the ‘Walking Essay’

    By Lucy Schiller  February 21, 2019
    Close Reading

    Eula Biss: “A book I can’t defend, a book I can’t renounce.”

    By Eula Biss  February 20, 2019
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