• Craft and Advice

    Essay

    Literary or Genre, It’s the Plot That Counts

    By Emily Barton  June 30, 2016
    Essay

    Why Does Anyone Write?

    By Alice Adams  June 29, 2016
    Feature

    What Kind of Writer Are You: Cook or Baker?

    By Anna North  June 28, 2016
    Advice

    Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year

    By Kim Liao  June 28, 2016
    Advice

    13 Questions to Ask Before Submitting to a Literary Journal

    By Erika Dreifus  June 27, 2016
    Conversations

    Do Writers Need To Be Alone to Thrive?

    By Literary Hub  June 24, 2016
    Feature

    The Writer’s Curse, The Writer’s Blessing

    By Rachel Louise Snyder  June 22, 2016
    Feature

    Martin Walker on the Origin of the Inspector Bruno Series

    By Martin Walker  June 21, 2016
    Craft and Criticism

    The Dark Side of Longform Journalism

    By Luke Mogelson  June 16, 2016
    Essay

    Writer, Mother, Both, Neither

    By Belle Boggs  June 14, 2016
    Essay

    How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Empty My Shelves

    By Alana Massey  June 13, 2016
    Biography

    On Max Perkins, One of America’s Greatest Editors

    By A. Scott Berg  June 13, 2016
    Advice

    Five Reasons Why Writers Should Move to Kansas City

    By Whitney Terrell  June 9, 2016
    Profile

    How Rebel Ex-Punk Stona Fitch Became Rory Flynn

    By Marian Ryan  June 8, 2016
    Essay

    In Search of Obscure Words for Even Rarer Feelings

    By Tiffany Watt Smith  June 6, 2016
    Essay

    Escaping the Self-Critical Eye for the Sake of My Daughter

    By Helen Phillips  June 3, 2016
    Criticism

    Actually, Criticism Is Literature

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 2, 2016
    Essay

    How to Write Through Dreams

    By Luke Carman  June 2, 2016
    Advice

    What to Do When No One Shows Up To Your Reading

    By Matthew Norman  May 31, 2016
    Daily practice

    On the Pleasures of Plot, and Writing a Bestseller

    By Brian Gresko  May 27, 2016
    Essay

    The Literary Genius of Kendrick Lamar

    By Mensah Demary  May 27, 2016
    Essay

    To Break the Story, You Must Break the Status Quo

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 26, 2016
    Essay

    When a Novelist Becomes an Ultramarathoner

    By Ashley Ream  May 26, 2016
    Feature

    Adapting the Tibetan Book of the Dead: On Bardo or not Bardo

    By J.T. Mahany  May 25, 2016
    Advice

    How to Write Fully-Formed Characters in Fiction

    By Malcolm Mackay  May 25, 2016
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