• Craft and Advice

    Historical Fiction

    Is the Past a Literary Genre Unto Itself?

    By Sophie MacKintosh  April 13, 2023
    Audio

    How Making Audio Erotica Helped Me Write Better Dialogue

    By Selene Ross  April 13, 2023
    The Writing Life

    I Would Drive 222 Miles (To Be a Writer)

    By Jeff Boyd  April 13, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Alex Mar on the Story of Radical Forgiveness Behind Her New Book

    By The Maris Review  April 13, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    An American Experiment: Jeff Boyd on Race, Music, Religion, and Love in Contemporary Portland 

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 13, 2023
    Otherppl

    Jinwoo Chong on Taking Three Years to Outline His Novel (and Four Months to Draft It)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 13, 2023
    Motherhood

    Maggie Smith on the Anxious, Silent First Year of Motherhood

    By Maggie Smith  April 12, 2023
    Thresholds

    Taking Care: Gina Chung on Fostering a Long-Haul Creative Practice

    By Thresholds   April 12, 2023
    Keen On

    William Brewer Explains How Psychedelic Therapy Saved His Life

    By Keen On  April 12, 2023
    Aging

    Juliette Fay on Writing Complex Older Protagonists

    By Juliette Fay  April 12, 2023
    The Hub

    The new EIC of ZYZZYVA is … Oscar Villalon.

    By Janet Manley  April 11, 2023
    Otherppl

    “There is So Much Material Within the Human Race.” Tara Conklin on Writing Funny

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 11, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers 7 Questions No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  April 11, 2023
    Aging

    Once You Start to Look, You See the Disappeared Are Everywhere

    By Andrew Porter  April 11, 2023
    Write-minded

    Jinwoo Chong on Executing an Ambitious Book Project

    By Memoir Nation   April 11, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    “It Was a Skeleton of a Book.” Marisa Crane on World-Building in Their Debut Novel 

    By I'm a Writer But   April 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Novelist Juliette Fay Explains Why Regret is Such Fertile Territory for Fiction Writers

    By Keen On  April 11, 2023
    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
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