• Craft and Advice

    Motherhood

    What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer

    By Cinelle Barnes  October 30, 2019
    Translation

    Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

    By Reyna Grande  October 29, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

    By Glenn O'Brien  October 25, 2019
    Cartoons

    Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

    By Bob Eckstein  October 24, 2019
    Craft

    On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

    By Lincoln Michel  October 24, 2019
    Craft

    How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

    By Karl Whitney  October 24, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 23, 2019
    Interview

    Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

    By Peter Mishler  October 23, 2019
    Trauma

    Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

    By Jenn Ashworth  October 18, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 17, 2019
    Work

    How Working the Swing Shift Saved My Writing

    By Anna Maxymiw  October 16, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Demystifying the Writer’s Fear of Failure

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 16, 2019
    The Writing Life

    A Poet’s Case for Wasting Time

    By Kayo Chingonyi  October 10, 2019
    Craft

    Josephine Rowe on Craft, Climate Grief, and the Politics of Fiction

    By Brandon Taylor  October 8, 2019
    Children's Literature

    Philip Pullman on Children’s Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

    By Philip Pullman  October 8, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Lives of the Editors, from Big Press to Indie

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 3, 2019
    Journalism

    Why Newspaper “Scoops” Don’t Work in Narrative Nonfiction

    By Steve Luxenberg  October 1, 2019
    Feminism

    Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 1, 2019
    Writing Rules

    Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

    By Anthony Doerr  September 30, 2019
    Craft

    The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: ‘Show, Don’t Tell’

    By Sonya Huber  September 27, 2019
    Children's Lit

    Grown Ups Were Getting on Her Nerves, so Rivka Galchen Wrote a Kids’ Book

    By Rivka Galchen  September 25, 2019
    Mental health

    Writing As Therapy: My Year of Teaching in the Locked Ward

    By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen  September 25, 2019
    Poetry

    On the Famous Photograph of My Late Uncle That Inspired a Collection

    By Jake Skeets  September 24, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Maybe the Secret to Writing is Not Writing?

    By Kate Angus  September 24, 2019
    Literary Magazines

    Jim Shepard on Why We Still Need Literary Journals

    By Jim Shepard  September 19, 2019
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