• Craft and Advice

    Grief

    The Salvific Power of Writing Through Terrible Grief

    By Maryanne O'Hara  April 21, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Women Recommends Stories That Celebrate Muslim Community

    By Reading Women  April 21, 2021
    Motherhood

    On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature

    By Kyra Wilder  April 21, 2021
    Craft

    What Happens to Our Writing When We Lose a Sense of Place?

    By Isobel Wohl  April 20, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: Kenyon Review

    By Vanessa Willoughby  April 19, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Russell Banks on the Transformative Magic of South Florida

    By The Literary Life  April 16, 2021
    Translation

    On Translating the Musicality of Sentences From One Language to Another

    By Julia Sanches  April 16, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Paul Theroux on Writer’s Block and the Books He Loves
    to Reread

    By Literary Hub  April 15, 2021
    Inspiration

    What Poetry Can Teach Novelists: A Reading List

    By Caroline Hardaker  April 15, 2021
    Reading Women

    Quan Barry on the Possibilities of Magical Realism

    By Reading Women  April 14, 2021
    Otherppl

    Shannon McLeod on Letting Go of Saving the Cat

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 14, 2021
    Dogs

    Leaning into Mystery: On the Inner Life of an Aging
    Shelter Dog

    By JoAnne Tompkins  April 13, 2021
    Writing Advice

    15 Writing (and Life) Lessons from Finishing Two Novels That Didn’t Sell

    By Maria Kuznetsova  April 13, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 4 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  April 13, 2021
    On Writing

    Jamie Figueroa on Writing in the Shadow of a Dominant Culture

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 13, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Bio-Waste: How Important Are Author Bios Anyway?

    By Jason Guriel  April 12, 2021
    First Draft

    Lidia Yuknavitch Wants You to Write a Triptych

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 12, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

    By Stephanie Dray  April 9, 2021
    News and Culture

    On Dealing with Literary Rejection: The Importance of Letting Go and Moving On

    By Jessica Bacal  April 9, 2021
    Craft

    Hook the Reader and Hold Them: Why More Writers Should Study the Lessons of YA

    By Donna Freitas  April 8, 2021
    Craft

    How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

    By Michaela Carter  April 8, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Jasmine Mans on Finding Her Voice as a Spoken Word Poet

    By Book Dreams  April 8, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Janice P. Nimura: The Case for Admiring “Unlikable” Women

    By Just the Right Book   April 8, 2021
    NewberyTart

    On Avi’s Brilliant Ability to Recreate His Voice with Each Book

    By NewberyTart   April 8, 2021
    On Writing

    Helen Oyeyemi Finds the World of Her Novel on the Train

    By Kristin Iversen  April 7, 2021
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