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Everybody’s First Drafts Are Bad

Everybody’s First Drafts Are Bad

Kate McKean on How the Craft of Writing Is Like the Craft of Knitting

By Kate McKean | November 13, 2026

There’s Always Next Year: What the Buffalo Bills Taught Me About Writing and Hope

There’s Always Next Year: What the Buffalo Bills Taught Me About Writing and Hope

Caitríona Moran on Why Loving a Sports Team Made Her a Better Writer

By Caitríona Moran | November 13, 2026

Can You Write a Poetry Collection That’s a Page-Turner?

Can You Write a Poetry Collection That’s a Page-Turner?

Kelly Grace Thomas on Structure, Storytelling, and Earning the Next Page

By Kelly Grace Thomas | November 13, 2026

Tom Drury on Writing from Flyover Country

Tom Drury on Writing from Flyover Country

"Flyover country seems less a place than a state of mind, a restless sense that there is something more, something truer, in the world to be found."

By Tom Drury | November 11, 2026

How Online Fandom Made Me a Writer

How Online Fandom Made Me a Writer

Maria Millage on Being a Fangirl Before It Was Cool

By Maria Millage | November 9, 2026

What It Means To Be a Basque Writer

What It Means To Be a Basque Writer

Kirmen Uribe on Language as Inheritance, Resistence and Community

By Kirmen Uribe | November 9, 2026

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A Syllabus for Attention: Megan Mayhew on John Elder’s Reading Life

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What will I read? What ideas will I live beside? What deserves rereading? What will I memorize? What will I allow to alter me?

By Megan Mayhew | November 4, 2026

On Self-Doubt, Self-Worth, and How to Manage Your Self-Esteem as a Writer

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"There is no escape from low self-esteem other than to shift one’s focus away from the self."

By Helen Betya Rubinstein | November 4, 2026

Ry Herman on Finding Inspiration in Queer Fairytales

Ry Herman on Finding Inspiration in Queer Fairytales

"When I come across a story that makes assumptions about gender, my impulse is to question those assumptions."

By Ry Herman | November 4, 2026

What Fly Fishing Taught Me About Writing Fiction

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Evan Brooke on the Similarities Between Casting a Line and Drafting a Novel

By Evan Brooke | November 3, 2026

How Derek Walcott’s Postcolonial Epic Helped Me Write My Novel

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Schneider K. Rancy on Writing a Haitian Reimagining of The Odyssey

By Schneider K. Rancy | November 3, 2026

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