• Craft and Advice

    Family Histories

    What is Revealed by the Family Stories That Go Untold?

    By Kei Miller  September 23, 2021
    Otherppl

    “Extra, Extra! Completely Incoherent Writing Advice.” A Conversation with Lucie Elven

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 23, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Lauren Groff on Blending Research and Imagination in Historical Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 22, 2021
    Reading Women

    Beyond the “Whodunnit.” Paula Hawkins on the Importance of Gray Areas in Crime Novels

    By Reading Women  September 22, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    “The Writer You Are is Enough.” Ruth Ozeki on Process and Acceptance

    By Literary Hub  September 21, 2021
    Literary History

    When Tennessee Williams Reached Out to a Besieged Truman Capote

    By Literary Hub  September 21, 2021
    On Craft

    In Defense of Labels: On Genre as a Literary Conversation

    By Lincoln Michel  September 21, 2021
    The Hub

    “Write the tale that scares you . . . I dare you.” Michaela Coel has some writing advice for us.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 20, 2021
    Poetry

    What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

    By Aruni Kashyap  September 20, 2021
    dialogue

    The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make

    By Dan O'Brien  September 20, 2021
    First Draft

    Kevin McIlvoy on a Novel Can Make Room for Dynamic Crowding

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 20, 2021
    The Hub

    How to write like Cheryl Strayed.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 17, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: After Hours Editions

    By Corinne Segal  September 17, 2021
    Beyond the Page

    Patrick Radden Keefe on the Fine Line Between Reporting and Storytelling

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  September 17, 2021
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Using Reinvention as a Writing Tool

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Margaret Renkl on Finding Ideas Everywhere

    By Margaret Renkl  September 17, 2021
    The Writing Life

    From Exobiology and Geology to… Writing Fiction?

    By Linda Rui Feng  September 17, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

    By Book Dreams  September 16, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

    By The Maris Review  September 16, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2021
    Ekphrasis

    On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

    By Andrea Abi-Karam  September 15, 2021
    The Body

    Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind

    By Cai Emmons  September 15, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

    By Dwyer Murphy  September 14, 2021
    The Writing Life

    “Maybe More People Should Have Writer’s Block.” In Which Joy Williams Responds to Our Questions Via Typewriter

    By Joy Williams  September 14, 2021
    Science Writing

    Mary Roach on Finding What’s Weird and Wild in Science Stories

    By Corinne Segal  September 14, 2021
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