• Craft and Advice

    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Fear, Friendship, and Finding Your Place: Kristen Simmons and Johnny Compton

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   October 18, 2023
    Dick Lit

    Men Who Don’t Know Women: On Unlearning the Lessons of “Dick Lit”

    By Molly McGhee  October 17, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    The Past Is Messy and Repeats Itself: The Trap of Fairytale Victory Endings in Historical Fiction

    By Allison Epstein  October 17, 2023
    Museums

    Beyond Words: On the Story Within a Single Painting

    By Christine Coulson  October 17, 2023
    Talk Easy

    George Saunders on Alteration

    By Talk Easy  October 17, 2023
    Feature

    Nothing is Lost in Translation: On Basque, Spanish, English and the Language of Dreams

    By Kirmen Uribe  October 16, 2023
    Inspiration

    Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

    By J. Ryan Stradal  October 16, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Raising the Dead from Paper: Katharine Quarmby on Fiction’s Friendly Ghosts

    By Katharine Quarmby  October 16, 2023
    Write-minded

    Rainbow Rowell on the Love of Fan Fiction

    By Write-minded   October 16, 2023
    Therapy

    Living the Questions: Lisa C. Krueger on the Shared Foundations of Therapy and Poetry

    By Lisa C. Krueger  October 13, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Nicola Griffith on Writing Immersive Historical Fiction

    By Nicola Griffith  October 13, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Inspired By the Genius Loci: On Unlocking the Spirit of Settings

    By Martin Goodman  October 12, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Safiya Sinclair on Growing Up Rastafari

    By The Maris Review  October 12, 2023
    Cancer

    How to Write a Memoir While Dying

    By Dan O'Brien  October 11, 2023
    Insomnia

    Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

    By Rebecca Clarren  October 11, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

    By Talk Easy  October 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Newly minted Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse on the best writing advice he’s ever received.

    By Emily Temple  October 10, 2023
    In Conversation

    Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

    By Laura van den Berg  October 10, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
    Write-minded

    Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on the Art of Co-Authoring

    By Write-minded   October 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

    By Keen On  October 10, 2023
    Youth

    McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

    By McKenzie Wark  October 9, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer

    By Hilary Leichter  October 6, 2023
    Loneliness

    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

    By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
    Craft

    Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

    By Anne Eekhout  October 5, 2023
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