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The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

Sanam Mahloudji: “If I didn’t feel an absence or a sense of loss, there would be no need to write.”

By Sanam Mahloudji | March 25, 2025

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

Emily Usher Wants Stories That Show Crushes in All Their Messy, Authentic Glory

By Emily Usher | March 24, 2025

Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

The Author of “Moon Mirrored Indivisible” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | March 24, 2025

Mai Der Vang on Generational Trauma

Mai Der Vang on Generational Trauma

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 24, 2025

Lidia Yuknavitch on Shapeshifting

Lidia Yuknavitch on Shapeshifting

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | March 24, 2025

“Retribution Masquerading As Art.” Elissa Altman on the Problem with Revenge Writing

“Retribution Masquerading As Art.” Elissa Altman on the Problem with Revenge Writing

“Does it move the story forward? Does it belong in my journal?”

By Elissa Altman | March 21, 2025

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Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

The Author of “Hymn to Dionysus” Explores a Linguistic Venn Diagram of Meaning

By Natasha Pulley | March 19, 2025

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

From the Penguin Classics Collection “Twelve Stories by American Women”

By Literary Hub | March 19, 2025

The First Step in the Writing Process: Be Kind to Yourself

The First Step in the Writing Process: Be Kind to Yourself

Marcy Dermansky on the Different Paths, Practices and Strategies to a Complete Draft

By Marcy Dermansky | March 19, 2025

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

Stuart Nadler: “The work is everything, and the work is heartbreaking.”

By Stuart Nadler | March 19, 2025

Maya Binyam on the Harrowing Moment That Changed Her Life

Maya Binyam on the Harrowing Moment That Changed Her Life

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | March 19, 2025

Fictionalizing the Disenfranchisement and Desperation of the Vietnam War Generation

Fictionalizing the Disenfranchisement and Desperation of the Vietnam War Generation

Nicole Cuffy on Immersing Herself in a Hard Chapter of American History

By Nicole Cuffy | March 18, 2025

Literary Locomotives: Nine Books Set on Trains That Show How They Changed the World

Literary Locomotives: Nine Books Set on Trains That Show How They Changed the World

Emma Donoghue Recommends Émile Zola, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Ethel Lina White, and More

By Emma Donoghue | March 18, 2025

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