• Craft and Advice

    Grants

    To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

    By Marian Crotty  October 17, 2024
    craft advice

    No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

    By John Larison  October 16, 2024
    literary criticism

    “A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Broke Heart Blues

    By Joyce Carol Oates  October 15, 2024
    First Draft

    Elizabeth Strout on Complicated People

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 15, 2024
    Write-minded

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Writing to Champion People and Causes

    By Write-minded   October 15, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Mark Haber on the Beauty of Digression

    By Mark Haber  October 11, 2024
    Craft

    Choreographing Shows and Scenes: What Dance Can Teach Fiction Writers

    By Shelley Noble  October 11, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Text to Speech Troubles: Why Writers Don’t Always Make the Best Speakers

    By Kate Greathead  October 10, 2024
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Terry J. Benton-Walker and Sarah Henning on Writing Scary Stories for Kids

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   October 9, 2024
    Memoirs

    What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

    By Debra Nystrom  October 9, 2024
    Family Stories

    Secrets of Los Alamos: How Family Stories Can Help Inform Historical Fiction

    By Rachel Robbins  October 9, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  October 8, 2024
    In Conversation

    Luis Jaramillo on Creating a Multigenerational Speculative Story of the Borderlands

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 8, 2024
    The Writing Life

    On the Environmental and Philosophical Factors Behind Literary Creation

    By Steve Wasserman  October 7, 2024
    In Memoriam

    On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

    By Elias Altman  October 7, 2024
    First Draft

    Richard Powers on Catching Up with the Unconscious

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 7, 2024
    Write-minded

    Joshua Mohr on Getting Out of the Comfort Zone

    By Write-minded   October 7, 2024
    Graphic Memoir

    Two Apple Problem: What “Show, Don’t Tell” Means in Graphic Narratives

    By Jesse Lee Kercheval  October 4, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser on the Power of a Writing Partnership

    By Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser  October 4, 2024
    craft advice

    Inspiration in the Cards: How Tarot Can Help Us Narrativize Our Lives

    By Chelsey Pippin Mizzi  October 4, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Hate This Jerk in My Book Club: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  October 3, 2024
    In Conversation

    Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

    By Joy Castro  October 1, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Nora Lange on Writing a Book She Loves

    By I'm a Writer But   October 1, 2024
    Write-minded

    Anne Lamott on How to Be Compulsively Readable

    By Write-minded   September 30, 2024
    craft advice

    What Romance Writing Shares With Sports Journalism

    By Jamie Harrow  September 27, 2024
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