• Craft and Advice

    Short story writers

    Shorter, Faster, Better: On the Beauty of Literary Compression

    By Olivia Clare Friedman  June 20, 2017
    Starting out

    False Starts, or This Novel-Writing Shit Isn’t Easy

    By Don Lee  June 15, 2017
    Advice

    5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to St. Paul

    By Maya Beck  June 15, 2017
    Craft

    When “Interesting” Isn’t Interesting

    By Chris Townsend  June 14, 2017
    Craft

    Balancing Bollywood Inspiration with American Expectations

    By SJ Sindu  June 14, 2017
    Profile

    Jill Eisenstadt on Surviving the Literary Brat Pack

    By Jill Eisenstadt  June 9, 2017
    Inspiration

    How An 80-Year-Old Murder Inspired My Present-Day Novel

    By Rosecrans Baldwin  June 8, 2017
    Craft

    What Makes a Ghost Story Effective?

    By Gail Godwin  June 8, 2017
    Where to Go

    Joseph Kanon: There Is No Better Place to Write than the Library

    By Joe Kanon  June 8, 2017
    Craft

    Jennifer Weiner: From Small-Town Beat Reporter to Big City Columnist

    By Jennifer Weiner  June 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Making a Movie Made Me Fall in Love with Writing Novels Again

    By Robyn Harding  June 7, 2017
    Craft

    How to Write an Internet Essay to Support Your Novel

    By Gabe Habash  June 5, 2017
    Craft

    My Beautiful Oubliette: The Difficulty of Being a Writer in Prison

    By Dean Faiello  June 5, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What Reading Robert Pirsig Taught Me About Writing (And Life)

    By Bernadette Murphy  June 5, 2017
    Advice

    Don’t Make Yourself the Hero of Your Own Story

    By Elena Lappin  June 2, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Learning the ABC’s of Grad School Jargon

    By Deb Werrlein  May 30, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Reading Susan Sontag in Paris

    By Lori Brister  May 26, 2017
    Craft

    “Poultry?” No, Poetry. On Moving From Verse to Memoir

    By Chris Forhan  May 25, 2017
    Advice

    Jamaica Kincaid on How to Live and How to Write

    By Emily Temple  May 25, 2017
    Craft

    A Crash Course in YA Taught Me How To Write

    By Katherine Heiny  May 24, 2017
    Advice

    On Bias, Clickbait, and the Future of Journalism

    By Emily Temple  May 22, 2017
    Craft

    Construction Instead of College, and Ways to Live in the World

    By Kevin Canty  May 19, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On the Horror of Getting it Wrong in Print

    By Ada Calhoun  May 18, 2017
    Advice

    “Write What You Know” is Not Good Writing Advice

    By Kate Southwood  May 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A Muslim YA Author on Belonging at a Tennessee Book Festival

    By Sheba Karim  May 15, 2017
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