• Craft and Advice

    Craft

    How Should You Name Your Characters?

    By Alison Stine  October 26, 2021
    On Grief

    How to Write an Obituary For Your Mother

    By Jenny Qi  October 26, 2021
    First Draft

    Lauren Groff on Maintaining the “Electric Jolt” of an Idea While Writing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 25, 2021
    Writing

    The Pleasure(s) of Pen(s) on Paper

    By Danielle Taschereau Mamers  October 25, 2021
    Writing

    Unlearning the Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Writing and in Love

    By Hazel Hayes  October 25, 2021
    Queer Lit

    Notes on Queerness and Camp in Crime Fiction

    By Tice Cin  October 25, 2021
    Craft

    Mary Gaitskill on Borrowing From Real Life in Writing (and the Dreams That Guided Her)

    By Mary Gaitskill  October 22, 2021
    Punk

    Finding My Voice Through the Rage of Punk Music

    By Amy Lee Lillard  October 22, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Craig Davidson on the Secrets Best Left Out of Memoir

    By Craig Davidson  October 22, 2021
    The Common

    Nariman Youssef on Migration, Translation, and the Complexities of the “Mother Tongue”

    By The Common  October 22, 2021
    New Books Network

    Jennifer Estep on Her Favorite Character of All Time to Write

    By New Books Network  October 22, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 21, 2021
    Craft

    TaraShea Nesbit on Reckoning With Ghosts, and Returning to the Same Story, Again and Again

    By TaraShea Nesbit  October 21, 2021
    Imprisoned Writers

    Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

    By Chris Hedges  October 21, 2021
    The Hub

    This 1998 advice from Ursula K. Le Guin about gender-neutral language is still relevant.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 20, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Women on the Emotional Complexities in Women’s Crime Fiction

    By Reading Women  October 20, 2021
    Trauma

    Writing Through Trauma, Past and Present: On the Legacies of Catholic Ireland

    By Elaine Feeney  October 20, 2021
    Narrative Structures

    Tiphanie Yanique on Moving Beyond Traditional Hero Narratives

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 19, 2021
    Playwrights

    “Cut, Cut, Cut, Until the Spirit Shines Through.” Sarah Ruhl on Craft and Catharsis

    By Beth Henley  October 19, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Forrest Gander on Grief, Translation, and Sharing Joy in Times of Suffering

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 19, 2021
    Journalism

    Writing from Home: Lessons from a Novelist-Slash-Small-Town Newspaper Columnist

    By Nickolas Butler  October 18, 2021
    The Writing Life

    How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

    By Ethan Lou  October 18, 2021
    First Draft

    Richard Powers on the Duplicity of Bewilderment

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Ezra Pound’s extensive revisions to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 15, 2021
    Open Source

    Jonathan Franzen on Reckoning with the Limits and Purposes of Writing Novels

    By Open Source  October 15, 2021
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