• Craft and Advice

    The Writing Life

    How the Prospect of Publishing Can Paralyze the Writing Process

    By Sofia Samatar  August 14, 2024
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Suyi Davies Okungbowa & Brenda Peynado on Futures Bleak and Hopeful

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   August 14, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Acamea Deadwiler on Rescuing the Little Girl Inside Her

    By I'm a Writer But   August 13, 2024
    Writing the Novel

    Pride, Prejudice, Sex, and Drugs: How Jane Austen Helped Me Write a Profane Novel

    By Sarah Seltzer  August 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Ava Nathaniel Winter on Poetic Embodiment, Queerness in Judaism, and Finding Art in the Disturbing

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2024
    First Draft

    Abby Geni on Teaching the Instinctual

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 12, 2024
    Write-minded

    Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito on Writing the Story You Have to Write

    By Write-minded   August 12, 2024
    On Translation

    Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka

    By Alex Zucker  August 9, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Flynn Berry on an Underrated Tool for Character Development: Grocery Shopping

    By Flynn Berry  August 9, 2024
    Protest

    When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

    By Nathan Deuel  August 9, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Friends Have Bad Taste in Poetry and I Want to Tell Them: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 8, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Liz Rosenberg on Louisa May Alcott’s Essays

    By History of Literature  August 8, 2024
    Writing Place

    Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

    By Lena Valencia  August 7, 2024
    Inspiration

    Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

    By Kate Weinberg  August 7, 2024
    The Writing Life

    The Art of Giving Up (and Starting Over) as a Novelist

    By Kat Tang  August 7, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Sonya Kelly on Jean-Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 7, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence

    Helen Phillips on Writing Speculative Fiction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 6, 2024
    literary criticism

    The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

    By Sophie Brickman  August 6, 2024
    craft advice

    A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

    By Jane Alison  August 6, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Alisa Alering on Being the Mountain

    By I'm a Writer But   August 6, 2024
    African Literature

    How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

    By Jessica Powers  August 5, 2024
    First Draft

    Jill Ciment on Struggling With Certainty

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 5, 2024
    Write-minded

    Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt Offer Publishing Advice From the Trenches

    By Write-minded   August 5, 2024
    James Baldwin

    Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

    By Caoilinn Hughes  August 2, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Bret Anthony Johnson on Creating a Story’s Foundation

    By Bret Anthony Johnson  August 2, 2024
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