• Craft and Advice

    Time Travel

    Playing With Paradoxes: Utilizing Time Travel as a Part of Plot and Process

    By Catriona Silvey  March 12, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Helen Garner on Henry Green’s Party Going

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   March 12, 2025
    Thresholds

    Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective

    By Thresholds   March 12, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Jackson Howard on Risking It All

    By The Critic and Her Publics   March 11, 2025
    Pen names

    When an (Extremely Prolific) Author Shares Your Name

    By Bryan Alistair Charles  March 11, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Karen Russell Received an Ice Bucket as a Courtship Gift, and Other Literary Tidbits

    By Literary Hub  March 11, 2025
    craft advice

    Write Like a Girl: On Learning to Break Free of Literary Gendered Expectations

    By Sanjena Sathian  March 11, 2025
    Film Criticism

    What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

    By Henry Lien  March 10, 2025
    craft advice

    Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

    By Vanda Krefft  March 10, 2025
    First Draft

    Sarah Gerard on Putting a Life on the Page

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 10, 2025
    Write-minded

    Sari Botton on Hard-Won Wisdom

    By Write-minded   March 10, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Jonathan Tarleton on the Limits of Research—and Making Peace with What You Don’t Know

    By Jonathan Tarleton  March 7, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    There Are Too Many DAMN Commas in Books These Days: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  March 6, 2025
    The Writing Life

    How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

    By Emily Hodgson Anderson  March 5, 2025
    Motherhood

    The Cords That Bind: On the Elusiveness of Solitude in Motherhood

    By Nicole Graev Lipson  March 5, 2025
    Transitions

    Emily St. James on Using Differing POVs to Write a Trans Novel

    By Emily St. James  March 5, 2025
    Thresholds

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Waiting for the Waves

    By Thresholds   March 5, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Why I Spent Part of My Advance Money to See Adele Live

    By Jinwoo Chong  March 4, 2025
    Mythology

    On Reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses As a Military Spouse

    By Jehanne Dubrow  March 4, 2025
    Awakeners

    Tiana Clark Remembers Her Mentor, Mr. Bill Brown

    By Awakeners   March 4, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Wordless Tales, Visual Magic, Genre-Bending: Ten New Children’s Books Out in March

    By Caroline Carlson  March 3, 2025
    In Conversation

    Allegra Goodman and Emma Donoghue on Writing Stories Inspired by Their Kids (and Their Books)

    By Literary Hub  March 3, 2025
    Write-minded

    Tom Perrotta on the Suburban Novel

    By Write-minded   March 3, 2025
    First Draft

    Charlotte Wood on Leaving Out

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 3, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Karen Thompson Walker on Conceiving the Inconceivable in Fiction

    By Karen Thompson Walker  February 28, 2025
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