• Craft and Advice

    Craft

    The Importance of Play: On Finding Joy in your Writing Practice

    By Susan Bruns Rowe  February 2, 2017
    Advice

    If You Have to Ask, You Probably Shouldn’t Be a Writer

    By Robert Louis Stevenson  February 1, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Porochista Khakpour: Portrait of the Artist as a Debut Novelist

    By Porochista Khakpour  January 27, 2017
    Advice

    Dear Rick Moody: How Can I Write Now That I’m Sober?

    By Rick Moody  January 25, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On Taiwan and Refusing to Stay Silent

    By Shawna Yang Ryan  January 24, 2017
    Craft

    My Writer’s Idyll is a Busy, Messy, Full Life

    By Steve Edwards  January 23, 2017
    Craft

    In the Face of Constant Censorship, Bulgakov Kept Writing

    By Julie Lekstrom Himes  January 23, 2017
    Craft

    Tenacity, the Key to the Writing Life

    By Teow Lim Goh  January 19, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What Writing a Serial Killer Taught Me About Accepting the Unacceptable

    By Dan Lopez  January 19, 2017
    Roundtable

    On the Use of Sensitivity Readers in Publishing

    By Christine Ro  January 18, 2017
    The Art of Editing

    What Being an Editor Taught Me About Writing

    By Anna Pitoniak  January 17, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Unbearable Niceness of Being

    By Alana Massey  January 13, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When You Name Your Fictional War Criminal After a Real Man By Accident

    By David Savill  January 13, 2017
    MFA Life

    When Writing Becomes Just Another Lifestyle Good

    By Mary Wang  January 11, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Art Can Defeat Boredom and Loneliness

    By Eva Hoffman  January 11, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On Selling Your First Novel After 11 Years

    By Min Jin Lee  January 10, 2017
    Advice

    12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise

    By Emily Temple  January 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Faulkner Convinced Me Not to Become an Astronomer

    By Alan Jacobs  January 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How to Build a Powerful Community of Brown Female Voices

    By Piyali Bhattacharya  January 5, 2017
    Film

    Why Every Aspiring Writer Should Go See Paterson

    By Emily Temple  January 5, 2017
    Feature

    Letters from an Invented Writer

    By Literary Hub  January 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What Romance Fiction Can Accomplish

    By Cathy Maxwell  December 29, 2016
    Personal Essay

    Working Your Way Through Depression to Finish a Book

    By Jason Diamond  December 22, 2016
    Profile

    The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side

    By Dwyer Murphy  December 21, 2016
    Advice

    The Art of Revision: Most of What You Write Should Be Cut

    By Charles Johnson  December 20, 2016
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