• Craft and Advice

    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    ‘A Certain Kind of Hunger’: Chang-rae Lee on Writing Connection While We’re Worlds Apart

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 11, 2021
    On Writing

    From Stage to Screen to Page… A Few Notes on Writing Across Media

    By Jen Silverman  February 11, 2021
    Well-Versed

    Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist

    By Well-Versed   February 11, 2021
    Reading Women

    Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Whiteness and Straightness Embedded in True Crime

    By Reading Women  February 10, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
    Teenage Life

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2021
    Character Development

    How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

    By Rebecca Sacks  February 9, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

    By Literary Hub  February 9, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

    By So Many Damn Books  February 9, 2021
    Social Media

    When Talking About Poetry Online
    Goes Very Wrong

    By Wayne Miller  February 8, 2021
    On Craft

    The Greatest Literary Alliance of All Time: You, the Author, and the Character

    By Lisa Zeidner  February 8, 2021
    First Draft

    Ben Okri on the Strange Magic of Our Preoccupations

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 8, 2021
    Family History

    Of Mobs and Namesakes: Writing the Story of My Infamous Grandfather

    By Russell Shorto  February 5, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Work of Home: Cleaning, Writing, and Communing with Ghosts

    By Laura Cronk  February 5, 2021
    Women Writers

    Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

    By Lauren Marino  February 4, 2021
    Narrative

    How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

    By K Chess  February 4, 2021
    WMFA

    Matthew Salesses on the Two Things a Workshop Can Do Best (and Often Fails Doing at All)

    By WMFA   February 3, 2021
    Motherhood

    Against the All-Consuming Archetype of ‘Mom’

    By Sarah Langan  February 3, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Ayad Akhtar on the Hollowness of American Exceptionalism

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 3, 2021
    Thresholds

    Eileen Myles on Approaching Writing Like a Game of Hearts

    By Thresholds   February 3, 2021
    Otherppl

    Michael Bible on Writing the Sort of Character Who Would’ve Stormed the Capitol

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 3, 2021
    Writing Advice

    For Writers Graduating from an MFA During a Pandemic: Read Everything

    By Paisley Rekdal  February 2, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Chang-rae Lee: Bourbon Doesn’t Work For Writer’s Block

    By Literary Hub  February 2, 2021
    Disasters

    Why Nature Always Makes for the Best Antagonist

    By Susan Meissner  February 1, 2021
    First Draft

    Mateo Askaripour on the Toll of Racism in the Workplace

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 1, 2021
    National Parks

    Leave No Trace: Can We Ever Enjoy the Wilderness Without Destroying It?

    By Todd Robert Petersen  January 29, 2021
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