• Craft and Advice

    Witches

    A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle

    By Chelsea Iversen  December 19, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    “I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

    By Lucie Elven  December 18, 2023
    Write-minded

    Baron Wormser on the Subtle Art of Attunement

    By Write-minded   December 18, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Martín Solares on Creating Novelesque Excitement

    By Martin Solares  December 15, 2023
    Writing Race

    Writing in Tandem: Inside the Process of Cross-Racial Creative Collaboration

    By Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene  December 15, 2023
    On Translation

    Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

    By Heather Cleary  December 14, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Blakley-Cartwright On How Should a Mother Behave

    By The Maris Review  December 14, 2023
    Writing Process

    Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand

    By Micheal O'Siadhail  December 13, 2023
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

    By Maura Lammers  December 13, 2023
    In Conversation

    Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

    By Rumena Bužarovska  December 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

    By History of Literature  December 13, 2023
    On Identity

    One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger

    By Naomi J. Williams  December 12, 2023
    Dystopias

    Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

    By Gabrielle Korn  December 12, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Willem Dafoe on His Human Approach to Acting

    By Talk Easy  December 12, 2023
    Poets in Conversation

    Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

    By Literary Hub  December 11, 2023
    Write-minded

    Alexa Bigwarfe on Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You

    By Write-minded   December 11, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

    By Debbie Urbanski  December 8, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

    By Richard Hugo  December 8, 2023
    The Hub

    Good media news! Lit Hub is adding Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman as columnists in 2024.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 7, 2023
    Critical Race Theory

    Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today’s Villains

    By The Maris Review  December 7, 2023
    The History of Literature

    David Sterling Brown on Shakespeare’s White Others

    By History of Literature  December 6, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    Space Pastoral: Finding a New Literary Genre in the Slow Death of the International Space Station

    By Samantha Harvey  December 5, 2023
    In Conversation

    Kate Christensen on Allowing Characters to Tell Their Own Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 5, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Maria Ressa on Fighting for the Safety of Journalists

    By Talk Easy  December 5, 2023
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