• Craft and Advice

    Tragicomedy

    How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

    By Randy Boyagoda  July 9, 2019
    Dystopias

    When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel

    By Kimi Eisele  July 8, 2019
    Magic?

    What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Stage Magicians

    By Gabriel Urza  July 1, 2019
    Art and Writing

    Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter

    By Luke Jerod Kummer  July 1, 2019
    Motherhood

    Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

    By Alix Ohlin  June 26, 2019
    Freeman's

    I Read One Hundred Books
    Just to Write One

    By Heather O'Neill  June 26, 2019
    Anger

    How We Fictionalize Anger to Understand the World

    By Rachel DeWoskin  June 24, 2019
    Writing Life

    What Anne Sexton Taught Me About… Self-Promotion

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 18, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Jayson Greene on the Risks of Writing About Grief

    By Hannah Seidlitz  June 17, 2019
    Difficult Defenses

    In Defense of My Family Business: The Soap Opera Storyteller

    By Nicholas Mancusi  June 17, 2019
    Parenting and Writing

    Writing During Naptime, a Parent’s Practice

    By Katie Gutierrez  June 14, 2019
    Literary History

    What the 39,933 Items on Peter Matthiessen’s Computer Mean for the Art of Biography

    By Lance Richardson  June 13, 2019
    Research

    On the Fine Art of Researching For Fiction  

    By Jake Wolff  June 12, 2019
    sweet dreams are made of myth

    What, to the Writer,
    Are Dreams?

    By Lauren Acampora  June 11, 2019
    Grief

    Kim Hooper on the Heavy Toll of Miscarriage on a Marriage

    By Kim Hooper  June 6, 2019
    Poets in Conversation

    “I Am Black and Reflective.” Keith S. Wilson Talks to Jericho Brown

    By Literary Hub  June 6, 2019
    American History

    The Poetic Half-Life of One Family’s Nuclear History

    By Tyler Mills  June 5, 2019
    Storytelling

    What Silent Film Taught Me About Storytelling

    By Dominic Smith  June 4, 2019
    Reading Behind Bars

    How Sharing Books with My Dad in Prison Made Life Bearable for Both of Us

    By Tyler Wetherall  June 4, 2019
    Teaching

    What It’s Like to Teach Writing When Everyone’s a Writer

    By Janet Burroway  June 3, 2019
    Psychology

    On the Parenting Insights of the Non-Parent

    By Amanda Stern  May 30, 2019
    How to...

    Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller

    By Emily Temple  May 28, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    Kim Adrian on Listening to What Our Nonfiction Is Trying to Tell Us

    By Kim Adrian  May 24, 2019
    Family History

    Struggling to Mine Family History for My Novel

    By Roxana Robinson  May 24, 2019
    Bad Writing Advice

    20 Ways to Be a Great Literary Citizen, According to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    By Adam Ehrlich Sachs  May 23, 2019
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