• Craft and Advice

    Language

    Breaking English Open: On Privileging Sound Over Sense

    By Moriel Rothman-Zecher  July 8, 2024
    Poetry

    Christian Gullette on Architecture in Verse, Grief’s Layers, and Poems as Liminal Spaces

    By Literary Hub  July 8, 2024
    Write-minded

    Jayne Anne Phillips on Awards and Rewards

    By Memoir Nation   July 8, 2024
    First Draft

    Tracy Chevalier on Finding the Flow State

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 8, 2024
    Soccer

    Joseph O’Neill on Writing a Socially Relevant Soccer Novel

    By Belinda McKeon  July 3, 2024
    On Race

    Support One Moment, Racism the Next: On Being a Black Nigerian Man in America

    By Samuel Kóláwólé  July 3, 2024
    Food Writing

    What Working at Restaurants Can Teach Writers

    By Ethan Joella  July 2, 2024
    In Conversation

    Nina Schuyler on Giving a Voice to Nature in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 2, 2024
    Creativity

    “It’s Harder for Me to Talk About Them.” Percival Everett on the Paintings He Makes

    By J.C. Gabel  July 1, 2024
    Poetry

    Gravity and Grace: What Becoming a Nurse Teaches You About Being a Poet

    By Dorinda Wegener  July 1, 2024
    Writers in Conversation

    On Co-Writing, Belonging, and Punishing Your Characters: Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett in Conversation

    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2024
    Write-minded

    Rachel Khong on How Big Questions Inform Fiction

    By Memoir Nation   July 1, 2024
    First Draft

    Tommy Orange on the Unconscious

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 1, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Julia Phillips on the Writing Lessons of Fairy Tales

    By Julia Phillips  June 28, 2024
    Trauma

    Beauty in Discomfort: In Defense of the Trauma Narrative

    By Emily Usher  June 28, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am the Literary Asshole For Wanting to Tell People Their Writing Sucks?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 27, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Akwaeke Emezi Doesn’t Outline Books and Waits for Their Cat to Sleep Before Writing

    By Literary Hub  June 27, 2024
    Characters

    Intertwined in Madness: On Turning Yourself into a Character in a Novel

    By Alana Saab  June 26, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Christopher Chen on Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   June 26, 2024
    On Grief

    How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

    By Cody Delistraty  June 25, 2024
    craft advice

    Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams

    By Alizah Holstein  June 25, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose

    By The Critic and Her Publics   June 25, 2024
    Friendship

    Why We All Should Have a “Good Art Friend”

    By Rachel Zimmerman  June 25, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Shze-Hui Tjoa on Her Debut Memoir

    By I'm a Writer But   June 25, 2024
    Fantasy

    The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy

    By Verlyn Flieger  June 24, 2024
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