• Craft and Advice

    Religion

    Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

    By Alena Dillon  February 10, 2020
    5 Questions

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Frankenstein, Incarceration, and Overcoming Creative Blocks

    By Literary Hub  February 6, 2020
    Criticism

    When We Call a Book Cinematic, What Do We Really Mean?

    By Sarah Kozloff  February 6, 2020
    Autofiction

    The Risk, and Reward, of Turning from Memoir to Fiction

    By Amy Jo Burns  February 5, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Happens When You Treat Writing Like Acting?

    By Dan Bevacqua  February 4, 2020
    MFA Life

    Ten MFA Archetypes To Avoid (Becoming)

    By Caroline Zancan  February 3, 2020
    In Conversation

    Scarlett Thomas on the Tricky Work of Writing the Unsayable

    By Lori Feathers  February 3, 2020
    Memoir

    How to Write Autofiction About Your Family Without Losing Your Mind

    By Eleanor Anstruther  February 3, 2020
    Teaching

    The Chaotic Side of Learning: Keeping High School Seniors From Falling Asleep

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 30, 2020
    Reading Across America

    A Reading Series for People to Share Their Grief

    By Laura Winnick  January 29, 2020
    Writer's Diaries

    It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer’s Block

    By Ludvík Vaculík  January 29, 2020
    Criticism

    How Does Garth Greenwell Make Such Wonderful Sentences?

    By Christian Kiefer  January 23, 2020
    Writer's Retreats

    The Yurt at the Edge of the Sea:
    A Writers’ Retreat on the California Coast

    By Emily Cooke  January 21, 2020
    New Books Network

    Christopher Brown on Serving on the Inspiration Behind Rule of Capture

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Katherine Kayne on the Strong Women of Hawaii’s Painful History

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    In Conversation

    Talking Poetry and Porn with Garth Greenwell in a West Village Bar

    By Brian Gresko  January 16, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  January 14, 2020
    Studio Sessions

    Introducing Belletrist’s Studio Sessions, Episode One: Illustrator Cecilia Ruiz

    By Literary Hub  January 14, 2020
    Craft

    Walter Mosley: ‘Everyone Can Write a Book.’

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 13, 2020
    Family History

    On the Line Between Truth and Fiction When Writing About Your Family

    By Lee Matalone  January 13, 2020
    Workshop

    Lessons From a Nightmarish Writing Workshop

    By Nina Schuyler  January 10, 2020
    Parenting

    How to Read After
    Becoming a Parent

    By Liz Moore  January 10, 2020
    The Internet

    Going to Dinner with Your Troll, and Other Tales of Writing Gone Viral

    By Courtney Maum  January 9, 2020
    Memoir

    What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  January 9, 2020
    The Writing Life

    Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

    By Benjamin Schaefer  January 8, 2020
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