• Craft and Advice

    I'm a Writer But

    Richard Mirabella on Blood Ties

    By I'm a Writer But   September 10, 2024
    In Conversation

    Anna Marie Tendler on Self-Doubt, Hospitals, and Living on Her Own Terms

    By Cat Marnell  September 9, 2024
    On Poetry

    Dunya Mikhail Talks Mythology, Translating Her Own Poetry, and Exploring the Past Through Objects

    By Literary Hub  September 9, 2024
    Write-minded

    Brontez Purnell on Staying Unclassifiable

    By Write-minded   September 9, 2024
    First Draft

    Jessica Shattuck on Idealism, Aging, and Outlines

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 9, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

    By Literary Hub  September 6, 2024
    African Diaspora

    Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

    By Itoro Bassey  September 6, 2024
    On Poetry

    An Ode to the Ode: Lory Bedikian on How the Form Helped Her Grieve and Grow

    By Lory Bedikian  September 6, 2024
    In Conversation

    American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

    By Sarah Viren  September 5, 2024
    On Teaching

    Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

    By Michele Herman  September 5, 2024
    Writing Place

    Letting Places Grow Like Characters: Transforming Your Hometown into a Fictional World

    By Shannon Bowring  September 5, 2024
    Plot

    “A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

    By Maureen Sun  September 5, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Think Memoirs Nowadays Are Just Completely Self-Involved: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  September 5, 2024
    In Conversation

    Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 4, 2024
    Mindfulness

    Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

    By Megan Pinto  September 4, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell’s Joe Gould’s Secret

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   September 4, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Rachel Kushner Once Threw a Bret Easton Ellis Novel Across Her Room (and Other Tidbits)

    By Rachel Kushner  September 3, 2024
    The Art of Editing

    Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped The New Yorker’s Writers

    By Amy Reading  September 3, 2024
    First Draft

    Kaliane Bradley on the Slow-Moving Crisis of Identity

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 3, 2024
    Write-minded

    Jane Alison on Structure and Form

    By Write-minded   September 3, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Minrose Gwin on Creating Complex Villains

    By Minrose Gwin  August 30, 2024
    Authors

    Author Profiles Are No Replacement for Book Criticism But I Love Them Anyway

    By Maris Kreizman  August 29, 2024
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    O.O. Sangoyomi and Rita Woods on Needing to Know Our History

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   August 28, 2024
    Writing Trauma

    Rejecting Denial and Embracing Sorrow: On Writing the Story of a Husband’s Suicide

    By Alexandra Marshall  August 27, 2024
    Essays

    As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

    By Steve Edwards  August 27, 2024
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