• Craft and Advice

    Children's Literature

    Ramona Quimby and the Art of Writing From a Kid’s Mind

    By Annie Barrows  October 6, 2020
    Neuroscience

    On Learning of My Autism While Trying to Finish a Novel

    By Madeleine Ryan  October 5, 2020
    First Draft

    Rebecca Watson on Authors Being as Gods to Their Characters

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 5, 2020
    Well-Versed

    Marilynne Robinson on Writing a Character Without a Carapace

    By Well-Versed   October 2, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Ayad Akhtar on a New Kind
    of Autofiction

    By The Maris Review  October 1, 2020
    Otherppl

    Steven Dunn on Coming Back to Reading Through Rap and Nikki Giovanni

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 1, 2020
    On Poetry

    Brittle Mac Keyboards, the True Enemy of Letters

    By Jeremy Sigler  September 30, 2020
    WMFA

    Why Jennifer Haigh Won’t Be Disclosing the Location of Her Writing Studio

    By WMFA   September 30, 2020
    First Draft

    David Szalay: When One Central Character Isn’t Enough

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 28, 2020
    On Poetry

    I Made a Book of Erasure Poems Out of Stephen King’s Misery

    By Sarah J. Sloat  September 25, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Carl Hiaasen on Satire as a Product of Anger

    By The Literary Life  September 25, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Matt Quinn of Mt. Joy on Musical Storytelling and Early Influences

    By Literary Hub  September 23, 2020
    Poetry

    How I Found Small Joys in My Life as a Poem Elf

    By Maggie Lane  September 23, 2020
    WMFA

    Linda Kay Klein on Being a Steward of Others’ Stories

    By WMFA   September 23, 2020
    Otherppl

    Amy Shearn on the Narrative Usefulness of Ghosts

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 23, 2020
    Reading Women

    Vicki Laveau-Harvie on Writing Family Tragicomedy… Longhand

    By Reading Women  September 23, 2020
    On Death

    On the Challenges of Writing About Death

    By Annie Lyons  September 22, 2020
    Theater

    Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

    By Dan O'Brien  September 18, 2020
    On Craft

    Let’s Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

    By Lincoln Michel  September 17, 2020
    Thresholds

    Cathy Park Hong on Motherhood and Turning From Poetry to Prose

    By Thresholds   September 16, 2020
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    A Not Entirely Safe for Work Conversation with Mary Beard

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 16, 2020
    WMFA

    Margaret Wilkerson Sexton on Listening to Your Inner Voice

    By WMFA   September 16, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Raven Leilani on Disco, Nail Polish, and Writing Like No One’s Watching

    By So Many Damn Books  September 16, 2020
    Otherppl

    Kathleen Rooney on the Risk of Losing Readers by Narrating from a Pigeon’s Point of View

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 16, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How Fiction Reckons with a World in Constant Crisis

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2020
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