• Craft and Advice

    The Craft of Writing

    Danielle Evans on How to Play With Time and Chronology in a Short Story

    By Danielle Evans  January 14, 2021
    On Memoir

    On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

    By Justine Cowan  January 14, 2021
    Creativity

    Looking to Nurture Your Artistic Self? Go On an Artist Date

    By Julia Cameron  January 14, 2021
    Thresholds

    Raven Leilani: It’s More Humane to Allow the Narrator to Be Unreliable

    By Thresholds   January 13, 2021
    Literary Disco

    George Saunders on How to Avoid Becoming a Hack

    By Literary Disco  January 13, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    George Saunders on the Songs (and Stories) He Can’t Live Without

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2021
    The Writer's Life

    Ten Years, Seven Houses: The Wandering Life of the Itinerant Writer

    By Sarah Moss  January 12, 2021
    Personal History

    Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

    By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    George Saunders: ‘Writing Books Make Me Nervous’

    By So Many Damn Books  January 12, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  January 11, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Imagining Gatsby
    Before Gatsby

    By Michael Farris Smith  January 11, 2021
    First Draft

    Jamie Harrison on Leaving Easter Eggs for Readers

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 11, 2021
    Politics

    Francisco Goldman on Guatemalan Justice, Identity, and The Art of Political Murder

    By Idra Novey  January 8, 2021
    Teaching

    How Teachers Can Foster a Space of Curiosity

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 8, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Kate Zambreno on the Beauty of the Mundane

    By The Maris Review  January 8, 2021
    competitions

    Can we please have a version of this competitive Indian “writers reality show” in America?

    By Jonny Diamond  January 7, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Jamie Harrison on Finding Her Way to the Writer’s Life in the American West

    By Thomas McGuane  January 7, 2021
    Thresholds

    Announcing Season 3 of the Thresholds Podcast

    By Thresholds   January 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s 33 writers on why they write.

    By Walker Caplan  January 6, 2021
    Drafts

    What Really Goes On in a Writer’s Notebook?

    By Danielle McLaughlin  January 6, 2021
    Otherppl

    George Saunders on How You Know When the Talking Spider Belongs in the Story

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 6, 2021
    Anti-racism

    How to Build an Antiracist Workshop

    By Felicia Rose Chavez  January 6, 2021
    Parenting and Writing

    Has the Parent Plot Ousted the Marriage Plot in Contemporary Fiction?

    By Peter Ho Davies  January 5, 2021
    On Craft

    How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic

    By Randon Billings Noble  January 4, 2021
    First Draft

    Emma Glass on the Ghost Story (and Nursing Career) That Inspired Her Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 4, 2021
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