• Craft and Advice

    AWP

    72 Hours in Philly: The Writers’ Guide to AWP 2022

    By Literary Hub  March 22, 2022
    The Writing Life

    When People Assume Your Fiction is About Your Life

    By Alejandro Varela  March 22, 2022
    On Poetry

    “I wish you a sexy, dangerous, jazz-shaped immortality.“ Diane Seuss’s Advice for Life as a Writer

    By Diane Seuss  March 21, 2022
    Mythology

    The Mermaid, C’est Moi: Rewriting the Story of a Universal Myth

    By Monique Roffey  March 21, 2022
    First Draft

    Why Having a Baby Led Evie Wyld to More Perilous Stories

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 21, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Garth Greenwell on Writing Fiction like a Poet

    By Garth Greenwell  March 18, 2022
    Romance

    Why Romance Needs Its Tropes: A Defense

    By India Holton  March 18, 2022
    New Books Network

    Why Center Historical Fiction on a Real-Life Person?

    By New Books Network  March 18, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: NoViolet Bulawayo in Conversation with Novuyo Tshuma

    By The Virtual Book Channel  March 17, 2022
    Money

    Terese Marie Mailhot on What Book Royalties Can’t Buy

    By Terese Marie Mailhot  March 16, 2022
    Publishing

    The Rich and Secret Life of a Writer of Reading Guides

    By Je Banach  March 16, 2022
    Beyond the Page

    Susan Orlean Is a Really Serious Chicken Lady

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  March 16, 2022
    Lit Hub Radio

    Danté Stewart Reads From Shoutin’ In The Fire: An American Epistle

    By Storybound   March 16, 2022
    The Hub

    From Matt Bell, here’s what a successful academic cover letter for creative writers looks like.

    By Corinne Segal  March 15, 2022
    Writing

    Rare Thoughts on Writing From Cormac McCarthy in This Unlikely Interview

    By Murray Carpenter  March 15, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    How Twilight Zone and a Japanese Art Installation Inspired Sequoia Nagamatsu’s Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  March 15, 2022
    Family Stories

    How a Secret Becomes a Story: Melissa Fu on the Importance of Listening to Elders

    By Melissa Fu  March 15, 2022
    Craft

    My Lessons From a Crash Course in Ghostwriting

    By Lauren Kate  March 14, 2022
    Marriage

    Making Space for Mistakes and Experiments, in Marriage and Writing

    By Francesco Pacifico  March 14, 2022
    Motherhood

    The Impossibility of Writing About Motherhood

    By Sarah Blake  March 14, 2022
    On Writing

    Finding the Kinship Between Manifestations of Creativity and Depression

    By Gia de Cadenet  March 14, 2022
    First Draft

    Lan Samantha Chang on Teaching, Tone, and Literary Generations

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 14, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Edith Wharton on How to Write a Vivid First Line

    By Edith Wharton  March 11, 2022
    Creativity

    Austin Kleon Looks Back on the Creation of Steal Like an Artist, Ten Years Later

    By Austin Kleon  March 11, 2022
    New Books Network

    Ten Percent Space Opera, Ninety Percent Family Drama: Mike Chen on Using Sci-Fi to its Fullest Capacity

    By New Books Network  March 11, 2022
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