• Craft and Advice

    Sentences

    Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

    By Ed Simon  April 10, 2023
    Poets

    Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

    By Joy Harjo  April 10, 2023
    First Draft

    Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 10, 2023
    Essays

    Writing From the Margins: On the Origins and Development of the Lyric Essay

    By Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold  April 10, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

    By Ling Ling Huang  April 10, 2023
    On Poetry

    Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry

    By Literary Hub  April 10, 2023
    Librarians

    The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

    By Blair Austin  April 10, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself

    By Dani Shapiro  April 7, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

    By Jane Roper  April 7, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    A Passion for Living in the Present:
    A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

    By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda  April 6, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Nicole Chung on the Task of Winnowing a Life Story (and the Magic of Dogs)

    By The Maris Review  April 6, 2023
    Debut Novels

    What It Feels Like to Publish Your Novel After 30 Years

    By Melissa Coss Aquino  April 6, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 6, 2023
    Otherppl

    Tiffany Clarke Harrison on Embracing the Fragmentary in Her Debut Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 6, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Nicole Chung is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  April 6, 2023
    On Grief

    Nicole Chung on Writing Through Grief and How to Begin Again

    By Hannah Bae  April 5, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Procrastination or Research? Curtis Sittenfeld Clicks Over to Celebrity Gossip While Writing

    By Literary Hub  April 5, 2023
    Workshop

    Intrigue, Not Critique: On the “Portrait of the Artist” Feedback Model

    By Florence Gonsalves and Matthew Vollmer  April 5, 2023
    Thresholds

    J Wortham on the Power of Changes

    By Thresholds   April 5, 2023
    On Poetry

    Poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Matthew Zapruder on Wonder, the Secular Sacred, and the Surprising Power of “Once Upon a Time”

    By Matthew Zapruder  April 5, 2023
    Experimental Memoir

    Time and Materials: On the Art of the Experimental Memoir

    By John West  April 5, 2023
    Talk Easy

    “I’m Pretty Keen on Fact.” Margaret Atwood on the Questions We Must Ask Ourselves

    By Talk Easy  April 4, 2023
    Advice

    Daniel M. Lavery on the Reckless Optimism of Advice Columnists

    By Daniel M. Lavery  April 4, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Charles Frazier on How the Past Converses With the Present

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 4, 2023
    Write-minded

    Heather Bourbeau on the Themed Poetry Collection

    By Write-minded   April 4, 2023
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