• Craft and Advice

    Teaching High School

    Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

    By Nick Ripatrazone  December 17, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

    By Abigail Hing Wen  December 16, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Michael Frank on the Hard Work of Waiting and Making it to the Other Side

    By But That's Another Story  December 16, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Who Has the Right to Be a Writer?

    By Stewart Sinclair  December 12, 2019
    On Poetry

    The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom

    By Julie Dobrow  December 11, 2019
    Diaries

    From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
    Daily Life, c. 1979

    By Freeman's   December 9, 2019
    News and Culture

    Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn’t Stop

    By Bohumil Hrabal  December 6, 2019
    Origin Stories

    How Journalism Made a
    Poet Out of Me

    By Gillian Conoley  December 6, 2019
    Parenting

    Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

    By Matt Grant  December 6, 2019
    On Poetry

    Charles Wright’s Resistance Against Certainty

    By Mary Szybist  December 5, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 5, 2019
    Diaries

    Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
    30 Years to Write

    By Caroline Scott  December 5, 2019
    Freeman's

    The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

    By Literary Hub  December 4, 2019
    Drafts

    What Your Draft (and Its Problems) Says About You

    By Helen Betya Rubinstein  December 4, 2019
    Quotations

    The Truest Eye: Wisdom and Vision from Toni Morrison

    By Toni Morrison  December 3, 2019
    Debut Novels

    What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

    By Literary Hub  December 2, 2019
    Editors

    Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

    By Lore Segal  December 2, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Larry Brown’s Long and Tortured Struggle to Make Himself Into a Writer

    By Jonathan Miles  December 2, 2019
    Writing Life

    How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

    By Caroline Louise Walker  November 27, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    How We See Iran: A Brief History of Fictions at a Distance

    By Ali Araghi  November 26, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High Schoolers to Talk Equally About Joy and Pain

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 22, 2019
    News and Culture

    Dorothy Allison on the Necessity of Making Readers Uncomfortable

    By Editors of Garden and Gun   November 22, 2019
    Mythology

    What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  November 20, 2019
    How to Write

    Why get an MFA when you have free advice from Wikihow’s “How to Write” section?

    By Jonny Diamond  November 18, 2019
    Witches

    In Order to Write, I Had to Break a Family Curse

    By Amanda Yates Garcia  November 15, 2019
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