• Craft and Advice

    Dear aspiring writer

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Market and Just Write

    By Peternelle van Arsdale  March 2, 2017
    Profile

    Gish Jen on the Profound Differences Between Chinese and American Culture

    By Dylan Foley  March 1, 2017
    Advice

    Failure and Patience: Lessons from the Garden for Writers

    By Yoojin Grace Wuertz  February 28, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Writer As Public Figure vs. The Writer Who Actually Writes

    By Karolina Ramqvist  February 27, 2017
    Advice

    Know What You Write (Not Write What You Know)

    By Tim Gautreaux  February 24, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Time I Wrote a Sitcom For Disney

    By Susan Sherman  February 24, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Reading Across America: On the Importance of the Venue

    By Stephen Langlois  February 23, 2017
    Where to Go

    8 Highly Unusual Writing Residencies

    By Emily Temple  February 22, 2017
    Craft

    When Writing a Biography Becomes a Race Against Death

    By Ted Geltner  February 22, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Poetry Needs a Revolution That Goes Beyond Style

    By Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris  February 17, 2017
    Personal Essay

    My Job Writing Custom Erotic Love Letters

    By Lorraine Berry  February 14, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On Being a Mother and a Writer in a Time of War

    By Lydia Peelle  February 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Every Word is an Act of Resistance: Finding My Voice as a Filipino Writer

    By Renee Macalino Rutledge  February 10, 2017
    Craft

    The Importance of Play: On Finding Joy in your Writing Practice

    By Susan Bruns Rowe  February 2, 2017
    Advice

    If You Have to Ask, You Probably Shouldn’t Be a Writer

    By Robert Louis Stevenson  February 1, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Porochista Khakpour: Portrait of the Artist as a Debut Novelist

    By Porochista Khakpour  January 27, 2017
    Advice

    Dear Rick Moody: How Can I Write Now That I’m Sober?

    By Rick Moody  January 25, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On Taiwan and Refusing to Stay Silent

    By Shawna Yang Ryan  January 24, 2017
    Craft

    My Writer’s Idyll is a Busy, Messy, Full Life

    By Steve Edwards  January 23, 2017
    Craft

    In the Face of Constant Censorship, Bulgakov Kept Writing

    By Julie Lekstrom Himes  January 23, 2017
    Craft

    Tenacity, the Key to the Writing Life

    By Teow Lim Goh  January 19, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What Writing a Serial Killer Taught Me About Accepting the Unacceptable

    By Dan Lopez  January 19, 2017
    Roundtable

    On the Use of Sensitivity Readers in Publishing

    By Christine Ro  January 18, 2017
    The Art of Editing

    What Being an Editor Taught Me About Writing

    By Anna Pitoniak  January 17, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Unbearable Niceness of Being

    By Alana Massey  January 13, 2017
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