• Craft and Advice

    Revision

    A Survivor’s Guide to the Long, Slow, Infuriating Process of Revision

    By Peter Ho Davies  November 2, 2021
    In Conversation

    Elizabeth Strout on Inhabiting Her Characters and Writing Directly

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 2, 2021
    The Writing Life

    On the Gift (and Weight) of Winning a “Free” House

    By Anne Elizabeth Moore  November 1, 2021
    First Draft

    “Nobody’s Free Until Everbody’s Free.” Keisha N. Blain on Lou Hamer’s Work and Life

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 1, 2021
    Taboo

    Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

    By Aimee Parkison  October 29, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Tananarive Due on Reinventing Black Horror

    By The Literary Life  October 29, 2021
    New Books Network

    Rhys Bowen on Writing Her Version of a Dark Novel

    By New Books Network  October 29, 2021
    Writing

    How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

    By Andrew Siegrist  October 29, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

    By Victoria Chang  October 29, 2021
    Biography

    Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

    By Gabrielle Selz  October 28, 2021
    Lyric Essays

    What’s Missing Here? A Fragmentary, Lyric Essay About Fragmentary, Lyric Essays

    By Julie Marie Wade  October 28, 2021
    Otherppl

    Lucy Corin on the Near-Death Experience That Changed Everything

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 28, 2021
    In Conversation

    A Year Later: Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel Reflect on Political Radicalism, Inventive Aesthetics, and the Publication of Their Anthology

    By Peter Mishler  October 28, 2021
    The Hub

    “Anybody’s life could be a wonderful piece of art.” Read Maxine Hong Kingston’s best writing advice.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 27, 2021
    Thresholds

    Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Growing Up in the Socialist Workers Party

    By Thresholds   October 27, 2021
    Dogs

    On Writing a Book For Dog People

    By Nathaniel Ian Miller  October 27, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Frances Badalamenti on the Fleeting, Painful Freedom of Youth and Writing as Self-Care

    By Chloé Caldwell  October 27, 2021
    Reading Women

    Jen Campbell on Disability, Productivity, and Perspective

    By Reading Women  October 27, 2021
    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
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