• Craft and Advice

    Publishing

    Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

    By Maris Kreizman  February 13, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    If Brigitte Giraud Wasn’t a Writer, She Would’ve Been a Pop Star

    By Literary Hub  February 12, 2025
    craft advice

    From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

    By Alejandro Heredia  February 12, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Olivia Laing on Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 12, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Kaitlyn Greenidge on Making Artifacts

    By The Critic and Her Publics   February 11, 2025
    In Conversation

    Amanda Peters on Chronicling the Native Experience Through Short Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 11, 2025
    Sex

    How to Write a Good Sex Scene

    By Emily Temple  February 11, 2025
    Gaza

    Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

    By Hanna Phifer  February 11, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  February 11, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Yes, I’ve Been Selling My Book
    on Dating Apps

    By Chloé Caldwell  February 10, 2025
    On Grief

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Finding the Words to Convey Unfathomable Loss

    By Lidia Yuknavitch  February 10, 2025
    Nature Writing

    Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

    By David Gessner  February 10, 2025
    First Draft

    Sarah Chihaya on Reading as Creative Act

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

    Tara Dorabji on Why Scope Matters

    By Memoir Nation   February 10, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

    By Sarah Viren  February 7, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Sophia Terazawa on Mistranslation and Writing in a Traitor Tongue

    By Sophia Terazawa  February 7, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  February 6, 2025
    On Poetry

    Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

    By Pádraig Ó' Tuama  February 6, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  February 6, 2025
    Shakespeare

    The Best of the Bard: Nine Literary Works That Radically Reimagine Shakespeare

    By Grace Tiffany  February 4, 2025
    Mothers and Sons

    Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks

    By Allegra Goodman  February 4, 2025
    Awakeners

    Firefeet on 10 Years as a Writing Group

    By Awakeners   February 4, 2025
    Write-minded

    Sadeqa Johnson on Writing Characters Your Readers Will Care About

    By Memoir Nation   February 3, 2025
    First Draft

    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on the Wonders of Life

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

    Susan Barker on Terror and the Power of Ambiguity

    By Susan Barker  January 31, 2025
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