• Craft and Advice

    Talk Easy

    Margo Jefferson on the Roots of Criticism

    By Talk Easy  April 18, 2023
    Writing Spaces

    A Shed of One’s Own (in Upstate New York)

    By Molly Prentiss  April 18, 2023
    Southern literature

    Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself

    By Katy Simpson Smith  April 18, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Ramona Ausubel on the Complexity of Families Both Human and Non-

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 18, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Ling Ling Huang on the Intersection of Classical Music and Writing

    By So Many Damn Books  April 18, 2023
    Otherppl

    J. Ryan Stradal on Writing to Keep His Mom Alive

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 18, 2023
    First Draft

    No One’s Suffering is Banal: Cathleen Schine on the Intricacy of Writing Trauma

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 17, 2023
    Interview with a Poet

    Gabrielle Octavia Rucker on the Power of Decentering Human Experience in Poetry

    By Peter Mishler  April 17, 2023
    The Writing Life

    The Bolt Bus Was My Biweekly Bardo: Life Between Writer and Daughter

    By Blair Hurley  April 17, 2023
    On Poetry

    Pattiann Rogers on the Scientific Underpinnings of Poetry

    By Pattiann Rogers  April 14, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Rachel Beanland on Managing Time in Fiction

    By Rachel Beanland  April 14, 2023
    Short Story Writing

    On the Outsize Power of the Short Story (AKA the Genre of “High Genius”)

    By Daphne Kalotay  April 13, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Is the Past a Literary Genre Unto Itself?

    By Sophie MacKintosh  April 13, 2023
    Audio

    How Making Audio Erotica Helped Me Write Better Dialogue

    By Selene Ross  April 13, 2023
    The Writing Life

    I Would Drive 222 Miles (To Be a Writer)

    By Jeff Boyd  April 13, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Alex Mar on the Story of Radical Forgiveness Behind Her New Book

    By The Maris Review  April 13, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    An American Experiment: Jeff Boyd on Race, Music, Religion, and Love in Contemporary Portland 

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 13, 2023
    Otherppl

    Jinwoo Chong on Taking Three Years to Outline His Novel (and Four Months to Draft It)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 13, 2023
    Motherhood

    Maggie Smith on the Anxious, Silent First Year of Motherhood

    By Maggie Smith  April 12, 2023
    Thresholds

    Taking Care: Gina Chung on Fostering a Long-Haul Creative Practice

    By Thresholds   April 12, 2023
    Keen On

    William Brewer Explains How Psychedelic Therapy Saved His Life

    By Keen On  April 12, 2023
    Aging

    Juliette Fay on Writing Complex Older Protagonists

    By Juliette Fay  April 12, 2023
    The Hub

    The new EIC of ZYZZYVA is … Oscar Villalon.

    By Janet Manley  April 11, 2023
    Otherppl

    “There is So Much Material Within the Human Race.” Tara Conklin on Writing Funny

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 11, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers 7 Questions No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  April 11, 2023
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