• Craft and Advice

    Teaching

    On the Emotional Complexity of Teaching in the Age of COVID

    By Nick Ripatrazone  March 24, 2021
    Research

    When You Take a Sailing Trip for Novel Research and It’s a Total Disaster

    By Amity Gaige  March 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Which one is correct: O.K., OK, ok, or okay?

    By Jonny Diamond  March 23, 2021
    On Writing

    Learning to Go With the Flow, in Rafting and in Writing

    By Andrew J. Graff  March 23, 2021
    Representation

    On Writing Flawed, Inconsistent, Forgivable, Inspiring, and Damaged Afghan Characters

    By Nadia Hashimi  March 22, 2021
    Black Women's Writing

    On Fighting For Space in the Literary World as a Black Canadian Writer

    By Cheryl Thompson  March 22, 2021
    Memory

    Our Memories, Ourselves: On Getting an Unexpected Note from a Childhood Bully

    By Sofia Lundberg  March 22, 2021
    The Writing Life

    On the Pact That Helped Me Finally Finish My Book… After Four Decades

    By Margaret Hermes  March 19, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Jen Spyra on Balancing the Zany with the Emotional

    By The Literary Life  March 19, 2021
    New Books Network

    Lauren Willig on Recounting the Everyday Heroism of WWI War Relief

    By New Books Network  March 19, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Elon Green on Centering Victims Rather than Killers

    By The Maris Review  March 18, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Sixty Years of Tracking Publications… and Rejections

    By Jay Neugeboren  March 18, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

    By Paul Lynch  March 18, 2021
    Parenting and Writing

    Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

    By Kelly McMasters  March 17, 2021
    Storytelling

    Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

    By Lisa Cron  March 17, 2021
    Thresholds

    Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

    By Thresholds   March 17, 2021
    Reading Women

    Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

    By Reading Women  March 17, 2021
    Capitalism

    Imbolo Mbue on the Post-Colonial Greed of the
    Oil Industry

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 16, 2021
    Singer Songwriters

    How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

    By Don Lee  March 15, 2021
    Grief

    Writing the What-If: The Aftermath of a Daughter’s Grief

    By Rebecca Handler  March 11, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Naima Coster on Following Narrative Threads Rather Than Chronology

    By The Maris Review  March 11, 2021
    Inspiration

    Finding Creativity in the Wintertime Rhythms of a Bordeaux Vineyard

    By Mari Andrew  March 11, 2021
    Narrative

    The Fires of Digression: Gregory Brown on the Slow Burn of Writing Fiction

    By Gregory Brown  March 11, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Nineteen Ways of Looking at
    Marilynne Robinson

    By Kevin Brockmeier  March 10, 2021
    Debut Authors

    How I (Barely) Survived the Abject Failure of My Much Hyped Debut Novel

    By David Hollander  March 10, 2021
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