• Craft and Advice

    First Draft

    Carl Phillips on His Love for Epigraphs

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 26, 2024
    Write-minded

    Maggie Smith & Shze-Hui Tjoa on New Ways of Thinking About Memoir

    By Write-minded   August 26, 2024
    Inspiration

    More Than a Muse: On Salvadoran Artist and Wife of Antoine, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

    By Gina María Balibrera  August 23, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Ledia Xhoga on the Joy and Pain of Letting Go (of Half Your Novel)

    By Ledia Xhoga  August 23, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 22, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

    By History of Literature  August 22, 2024
    Happiness

    Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

    By Maribeth Fischer  August 21, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    m. nourbeSe philip on Kamau Brathwaite’s Born to Slow Horses

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 21, 2024
    In Conversation

    Lena Valencia on Chronicling the Beauty and Danger of the Desert

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 20, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Danez Smith! Audre Lorde! Kwame Dawes! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 20, 2024
    In Conversation

    Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing

    By Liska Jacobs  August 19, 2024
    craft advice

    Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

    By Ruben Reyes Jr.  August 19, 2024
    First Draft

    Jodi Picoult on the Importance of Recognition

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 19, 2024
    Write-minded

    Rainbow Rowell and Isabel Cañas on Fiction Outliers

    By Write-minded   August 19, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Jessica Anthony on Getting a Grip on Fictional Time

    By Jessica Anthony  August 16, 2024
    Inspiration

    A Marionette in the Milky Way: On Finding Your Way Into the Story You Want to Tell

    By Lindsey Drager  August 16, 2024
    Mental health

    Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

    By Colleen McKeegan  August 15, 2024
    Journalism

    What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

    By Holly Baxter  August 15, 2024
    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
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