• Craft and Advice

    Nature Writing

    Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

    By David Gessner  February 10, 2025
    First Draft

    Sarah Chihaya on Reading as Creative Act

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 10, 2025
    Write-minded

    Tara Dorabji on Why Scope Matters

    By Write-minded   February 10, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

    By Sarah Viren  February 7, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Sophia Terazawa on Mistranslation and Writing in a Traitor Tongue

    By Sophia Terazawa  February 7, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  February 6, 2025
    On Poetry

    Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

    By Pádraig Ó' Tuama  February 6, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  February 6, 2025
    Shakespeare

    The Best of the Bard: Nine Literary Works That Radically Reimagine Shakespeare

    By Grace Tiffany  February 4, 2025
    Mothers and Sons

    Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks

    By Allegra Goodman  February 4, 2025
    Awakeners

    Firefeet on 10 Years as a Writing Group

    By Awakeners   February 4, 2025
    Write-minded

    Sadeqa Johnson on Writing Characters Your Readers Will Care About

    By Write-minded   February 3, 2025
    First Draft

    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on the Wonders of Life

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 3, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Susan Barker on Terror and the Power of Ambiguity

    By Susan Barker  January 31, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 30, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

    By Deni Ellis Béchard  January 29, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    André Alexis on Martha Baillie’s There Is No Blue

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   January 29, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

    By The Critic and Her Publics   January 28, 2025
    Storytelling

    Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

    By Jay Nicorvo  January 27, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Jack Torrance and Me: On Writing and Self-Loathing in The Shining

    By Maggie Su  January 27, 2025
    First Draft

    Alan Shapiro on Inspiration

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 27, 2025
    Write-minded

    Connie Hale and Ellen Sussman on Writing Retreats

    By Write-minded   January 27, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Gemma Tizzard on Researching for Historical Fiction

    By Gemma Tizzard  January 24, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Ugh, I’m in My Friend’s Autofiction and I Hate It: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  January 23, 2025
    craft advice

    The Shape of a Story: On Losing (and Finding) the Plot of Your Novel

    By Emma Knight  January 23, 2025
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