Craft and Advice

The Craft of Writing

Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

“No one wants to feel the writer trying too hard.”

 
By Jonathan Lee  May 20, 2022
Micro

Brian Alan Ellis on Making “Garden Variety Pain” Readable and Unique

By Micro   May 20, 2022
New Books Network

Khan Wong on Hula Hooping, Asexuality, and Creating the Universe of His Debut Novel

By New Books Network  May 20, 2022
The Maris Review

Annie Harnett on What Living in a Cemetery Meant to Her Novel

By The Maris Review  May 19, 2022
Memoir

Looking to Songs and Sermons to Structure a Memoir About Fighting for Black Lives

By Andre Henry  May 19, 2022
Otherppl

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 18, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Writing Life

What Do Writing a Novel and Tending a Garden Have in Common?

By Naheed Phiroze Patel  May 18, 2022
Creativity

You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

By Aaron Angello  May 18, 2022
War Reporting

How War Literature Occupies the Realms of Both Fact and Fiction

By Phil Klay  May 17, 2022
In Conversation

A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

Mesha Maren in Conversation with Fernando Flores

By Literary Hub  May 20, 2022
Novellas

Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

By Victoria Shorr  May 17, 2022
Immigration stories

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

By Jane Ciabattari  May 17, 2022
First Draft

Ada Limón on Why Being Witnessed Is Essential For an Artist

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 16, 2022
Writers in Conversation

On the Power and Purpose of Historical Fiction

A Conversation Between Eva Stachniak and Christina Baker Kline

By Literary Hub  May 16, 2022
Libraries

On My Love of Libraries: Lessons From My Father

By Rachel M. Harper  May 16, 2022
Red Ink Series

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Dreams

By Michele Filgate  May 16, 2022
On Poetry

Ada Limón on How to Write a Poetry Collection

By Ada Limón  May 13, 2022
Book Bans

The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

Lev AC Rosen on Having His Book Banned, and the Repetition of History

By Lev AC Rosen  May 13, 2022
New Books Network

Erica Ruth Neubauer on Mysteries, Her Many Careers, and the Google Search That Started Her Novel

By New Books Network  May 13, 2022
Publishing

Five Writers Weigh in on the Weird Shame of Publishing a Book

By Jennifer Huang  May 12, 2022
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives

By Fiction Non Fiction  May 12, 2022
Writing Advice

A Brutal—and True—Piece of Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

A. J. Verdelle Recalls a Memorable Q&A with an Iconic Writer

By A. J. Verdelle  May 12, 2022
The Maris Review

Michelle Hart on Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Shame in Storytelling

By The Maris Review  May 12, 2022
Otherppl

Brad Listi on Resisting the Siren Call of the Static

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 11, 2022
But Make It Fashion

Emma Straub’s Advice for What to Wear to a Book Launch

By Emma Straub  May 17, 2022
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