• Craft and Advice

    Goths

    Empowering Eerieness: How Gothic Romances Helped Alisa Alering Escape the Misery of a Small Town

    By Alisa Alering  July 17, 2024
    In Conversation

    Laura Van Den Berg on Merging Autofiction With Speculative Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 16, 2024
    Children's Literature

    What Does It Mean to Write Escapist Literature?

    By Caroline Carlson  July 16, 2024
    literary criticism

    Joy Williams on the Wild, Lyrical Stories of Brad Watson

    By Joy Williams  July 16, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Barrie Miskin on Plumbing Dark Places

    By I'm a Writer But   July 16, 2024
    Horror

    What Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark” Can Teach Horror Writers

    By Jordan Kopy  July 15, 2024
    Write-minded

    Margaret Juhae Lee on How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing

    By Write-minded   July 15, 2024
    In Conversation

    Two Authors, One Subject: Zoë Eisenberg and Rhaina Cohen on Writing Intimate Friendships

    By Literary Hub  July 12, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    “I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia

    By Howard Norman  July 12, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Ayeşgül Savaş on Creating Your Story’s Clock

    By Aysegül Savas  July 12, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Robert Petkoff on Finding the Narrative Voice

    By Behind the Mic   July 12, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Local Indie Won’t Stock My Buzzy Debut and I’m Pissed: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  July 11, 2024
    craft advice

    Setting the Tone: How Listening to Music Can Inspire Fiction Writers

    By Liz Riggs  July 11, 2024
    Storytelling

    “Tell It To Me Singing.” On Diaspora, Community and Cuban-American Stories

    By Tita Ramirez  July 11, 2024
    In Conversation

    A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

    By Sarah Viren  July 10, 2024
    Creativity

    On the Many Paths Artists Take to Sustain Their Creative Practice

    By Stacey D'Erasmo  July 10, 2024
    Representation

    Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing

    By Asha Thanki  July 10, 2024
    Irish Literature

    Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

    By Jan Carson  July 10, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Christina Sharpe on John Keene’s Counternarratives

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 10, 2024
    Literary Criticism

    Kevin Barry on Reimagining the Novel: “You Can’t Be Afraid to Go Nuts on the Page”

    By Dan Sheehan  July 9, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Why Did Taffy Brodesser-Akner Go to a Psychic to Fix Her Writer’s Block?

    By Literary Hub  July 9, 2024
    The Writing Life

    A Room of One’s Own: In Praise of Seclusion in the Service of Craft

    By Ben Shattuck  July 9, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Christine Smallwood on Going Back to the Text

    By The Critic and Her Publics   July 9, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Setting of Her Debut Novel

    By I'm a Writer But   July 9, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Mateo Askaripour on the Perks of Genre Agnosticism

    By Mateo Askaripour  July 8, 2024
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