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Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read

Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read

”I rarely found portrayals of anyone like me—bookish and poor and surly and Brown—in the art that I enjoyed.”

By Erika L. Sánchez | July 14, 2022

Dispatches From the Imaginative Childhood of a Future Pilot

Dispatches From the Imaginative Childhood of a Future Pilot

Or, How an Atlas is the Most Transportive Book of All

By Mark Vanhoenacker | July 14, 2022

Alice Elliott Dark on How to Let Characters Change

Alice Elliott Dark on How to Let Characters Change

“It works best when it is unplanned.”

By Alice Elliott Dark | July 14, 2022

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

On Mutt-Lon's The Blunder

By Amy B. Reid | July 14, 2022

When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

Julia Scheeres on the Things She Saw (and the Toll They Took)

By Julia Scheeres | July 13, 2022

Lydia Conklin on Discarding the Conventions of Queer Storytelling

Lydia Conklin on Discarding the Conventions of Queer Storytelling

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | July 13, 2022

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What Culture Shock Taught Me About Sci-Fi and Fantasy Storytelling

By Alex Jennings | July 13, 2022

Teddy Wayne on How Screenwriting Impacted His Approach to Plot

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Seán Hewitt on Taking Refuge in The Legend of Zelda

By Seán Hewitt | July 12, 2022

Fantasy vs. Reality: When the Muse Finally Speaks

Fantasy vs. Reality: When the Muse Finally Speaks

Antonia Angress on Seeing and Being Seen In Art and Real Life

By Antonia Angress | July 12, 2022

The Ocean is a Lesbian: Notes on Queer Women and Water

The Ocean is a Lesbian: Notes on Queer Women and Water

"What is it with these lesbians and why are they all so wet?"

By Julia Armfield | July 12, 2022

Morgan Talty on Capturing the Uniqueness of Tribal Settings and Finding the Logic of a Story

Morgan Talty on Capturing the Uniqueness of Tribal Settings and Finding the Logic of a Story

The Author of Night of the Living Rez Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | July 12, 2022

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Sopan Deb, David Santos Donaldson, and More!

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On the Personalization of Craft; Or, We’re All Going to Die Soon Anyway

On the Personalization of Craft; Or, We’re All Going to Die Soon Anyway

Diksha Basu Wonders What We Really Mean by “Writing Rules”

By Diksha Basu | July 11, 2022

In Praise of Poet Voice

In Praise of Poet Voice

Dan O'Brien Defends a Much-Maligned Performance Style

By Dan O'Brien | July 11, 2022

“The System is Designed to Prohibit Change.” On Hollywood and Women’s Ambition and Complicity

“The System is Designed to Prohibit Change.” On Hollywood and Women’s Ambition and Complicity

Isabel Kaplan and Alison B. Hart, Authors of NSFW and The Work Wife, in Conversation

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