• Craft and Advice

    Writing Advice

    Demystifying the Writer’s Fear of Failure

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 16, 2019
    The Writing Life

    A Poet’s Case for Wasting Time

    By Kayo Chingonyi  October 10, 2019
    Craft

    Josephine Rowe on Craft, Climate Grief, and the Politics of Fiction

    By Brandon Taylor  October 8, 2019
    Children's Literature

    Philip Pullman on Children’s Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

    By Philip Pullman  October 8, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Lives of the Editors, from Big Press to Indie

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 3, 2019
    Journalism

    Why Newspaper “Scoops” Don’t Work in Narrative Nonfiction

    By Steve Luxenberg  October 1, 2019
    Feminism

    Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 1, 2019
    Writing Rules

    Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

    By Anthony Doerr  September 30, 2019
    Craft

    The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: ‘Show, Don’t Tell’

    By Sonya Huber  September 27, 2019
    Children's Lit

    Grown Ups Were Getting on Her Nerves, so Rivka Galchen Wrote a Kids’ Book

    By Rivka Galchen  September 25, 2019
    Mental health

    Writing As Therapy: My Year of Teaching in the Locked Ward

    By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen  September 25, 2019
    Poetry

    On the Famous Photograph of My Late Uncle That Inspired a Collection

    By Jake Skeets  September 24, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Maybe the Secret to Writing is Not Writing?

    By Kate Angus  September 24, 2019
    Literary Magazines

    Jim Shepard on Why We Still Need Literary Journals

    By Jim Shepard  September 19, 2019
    5 Questions

    Kevin Barry on the Need to Sustain Our Literature

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2019
    Myth

    The Inspired Vengeance of Mythic Icelandic Women

    By Kassandra Montag  September 13, 2019
    5 Questions

    Emma Donoghue on Hamilton, Writer’s Block, and Giving Up on War and Peace

    By Literary Hub  September 11, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  September 10, 2019
    Self-Publishing

    Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn’t Mean You Should, Too

    By Nick Ripatrazone  September 9, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    What Not to Expect From a Grad School Workshop

    By Lynn Steger Strong  September 6, 2019
    Self-Reflection

    On Being Mistaken for the Other Elizabeth Ames

    By Elizabeth Ames  September 5, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Walter Mosley on Discovering Who Your Book’s Characters Really Are

    By Walter Mosley  September 5, 2019
    Grammar

    Good Sentences Are Why
    We Read

    By Joe Moran  August 30, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Designing Your Grandfather’s Book (When He’s James Thurber)

    By Sara T. Sauers  August 30, 2019
    Criticism

    Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

    By Tom Lutz  August 30, 2019
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