• Craft and Advice

    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    Featuring Maris Kreizman, Claire Jia, Lawrence Burney, and More

     
    By Teddy Wayne  July 8, 2025
    First Draft

    Andrew Porter on What Unites His Work

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 7, 2025
    Write-minded

    Prabal Gurang on Why No Outside Validation Is Needed

    By Memoir Nation   July 7, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Five Experimental Anti-Novels That Break the Form (Beautifully)

    By Dan Leach  July 3, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

    By Clarence A. Haynes  July 3, 2025
    Plot

    Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 3, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Aging

    Jessica Berger Gross on the Special Euphoria of Debuting as a Novelist in Her 50s

    By Jessica Berger Gross  July 2, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction

    By Danielle Dutton  July 2, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far!

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 2, 2025
    craft advice

    Croatia as a Character? Lidija Hilje on Trying—and Failing—to Write a Universal Story

    “Even though I did my best to tune out Croatia, this proved to be an impossible task.”

    By Lidija Hilje  July 8, 2025
    Publishing

    A Series of Unfortunate Salaries:
    Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

    By Maris Kreizman  July 1, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Language and Muscle Memory

    By Benedict Nguyễn  July 1, 2025
    Awakeners

    Jemimah Wei and Tash Aw Tell Time and Place

    By Awakeners   July 1, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Owls, Haunted Pianos, Having the Moon for a Neighbor: Ten Children’s Books to Read in July

    Caroline Carlson Recommends Sue Soltis, Marzena Sowa, Sarah J. Mendonca, and More

    By Caroline Carlson  June 30, 2025
    Poetry

    Ghetto Koans, Pattern Books, Devouring Wolves: Seven Poetry Collections to Read in July

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  June 30, 2025
    On Writing

    The Agonies and Ecstasies of a Slow Book Project

    By Stephanie Elizondo Griest  June 30, 2025
    First Draft

    André Alexis on Discovering as He Goes

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 30, 2025
    Write-minded

    Molly Jong-Fast on Opening a Vein on the Page

    From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

    By Memoir Nation   June 30, 2025
    Craft

    I’m Obsessed: On the Importance of Getting Lost in Your Writing

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  June 27, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Leila Mottley Wonders If You Can Truly Write a Place You’ve Never Been

    By Leila Mottley  June 27, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Sabotaging My Own Writing Before Even Starting?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 26, 2025
    Poetry

    For Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, There Must Be Poetry in a Time of Genocide

    Cindy Juyoung Ok Talks to the National Book Award-Winning Author of “Something About Living”

    By Cindy Juyoung Ok  June 26, 2025
    Memory

    Three Kids, Three Pasts: Tennessee Hill on Using Multiple POVs to Explore Shared Memory

    By Tennessee Hill  June 25, 2025
    Thresholds

    Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral

    By Thresholds   June 25, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

    By Libby Buck  July 1, 2025
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