• Craft and Advice

    Writing Prompts

    The New Toolkit For Opening Up Your Memoir Writing

    By Eve Makis  May 6, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    On Not Writing About My Father, an Actual Mad Scientist

    By Erika Swyler  May 3, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Poetry, Like Witchcraft and Magick, is an Act of Transformation

    By Janaka Stucky  May 3, 2019
    Identity

    Finding Freedom in Writing a Language My
    Parents Can’t Read

    By Kia Abdullah  May 1, 2019
    Flânerie

    On the Struggle to Become a True
    Parisian Flaneur

    By Aysegül Savas  April 30, 2019
    Craft

    David Means on the World As
    Endless Inspiration

    By David Means  April 29, 2019
    Advice

    How to Write a Book in Ten Days

    By Meg Elison  April 26, 2019
    How to...

    On the Importance of Getting the Science Right in Your Novel

    By Andrea Rothman  April 26, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    On Editing Oliver Sacks After
    He Was Gone

    By Bill Hayes  April 23, 2019
    Writing

    The Failures of a Wunderkind:
    On Rejection and Persistence

    By Michael Croley  April 23, 2019
    News and Culture

    Ian McEwan on Bach, Philip Roth and Living an Episodic Life

    By Literary Hub  April 23, 2019
    How to Write

    Jane Alison on Raymond Carver
    and Tobias Wolff

    By Jane Alison  April 18, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Writing Fiction About Fact: Using Historical Figures As Characters

    By Steven Rowley  April 18, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Revising My Novel Unearthed
    a #MeToo Story

    By Rachel Cline  April 18, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Cecelia Ahern on How She Writes
    a Novel a Year

    By Cecelia Ahern  April 16, 2019
    MFA Life

    Prepping for MFA Programs as
    a Person of Color

    By Hebah Uddin  April 15, 2019
    Advice

    How What I’ve Learned as an Actor Can Apply to Storytelling

    By Brett Paesel  April 12, 2019
    Advice

    When a First-Person Narrator Sneaks Into Your Story

    By Jennifer duBois  April 11, 2019
    Debut Novels

    When a Reader Figures Out What Your Book is Actually About

    By Marcia Butler  April 10, 2019
    How to...

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: How Not to Bore Your Audience at a Reading

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 9, 2019
    Essay

    Even My Imaginary Male Muses
    Don’t Measure Up

    By Jen Mediano  April 9, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    The Best Argument is a Good Book: Writing Advice from Saul Bellow

    By Emily Temple  April 5, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    What John Hughes Taught Me About
    the Importance of a Name

    By Sloane Tanen  April 4, 2019
    MFA Life

    Unsilencing the Writing Workshop

    By Beth Nguyen   April 3, 2019
    Freeman's

    Jenni Fagan: “If a Poem Wants Written at 3 am I Get Up.”

    By Jenni Fagan  April 3, 2019
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