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Many Voices, Many Truths: On the Benefits of Polyvocal Stories

How Hannah Michell Transcends the Single Perspective

 
By Hannah Michell  June 5, 2023
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Failure, Patience, and Joy: Tania James on What It Means to Be a Writer

By Tania James  May 4, 2023
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“Happy Accidents.” Shelley Noble on Stumbling Into a Story

By Shelley Noble  May 4, 2023
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On the I Ching as a Writing Guide

By Heinz Insu Fenkl  February 16, 2023
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A Bizarre Pattern of Bridges: How—and Why—Baudelaire Showed Up Throughout My Fiction

By Gunnhild Øyehaug  February 15, 2023
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On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

By V.V. Ganeshananthan  January 4, 2023
On Craft

Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

By Thomas C. Foster  September 16, 2022
On Craft

Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

By Ellen Meeropol  September 16, 2022
On Craft

All Things Are Possible: Mario Vargas Llosa on the Eternal Youth of Flaubert’s Writing

By Mario Vargas Llosa  August 29, 2022
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Craft Lessons in Writing About Disability

By Jarred McGinnis  April 14, 2022
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In Defense of Labels: On Genre as a Literary Conversation

By Lincoln Michel  September 21, 2021
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Writing Through the Microscope: Intimate Versus Epic Narration

By Gabriela Houston  March 8, 2021
On Craft

The Best Sex I Ever Had Was (Also) a Narrative Structure

By Helen Betya Rubinstein  February 17, 2021
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The Greatest Literary Alliance of All Time: You, the Author, and the Character

By Lisa Zeidner  February 8, 2021
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25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

By Matthew Salesses  January 19, 2021
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How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic

By Randon Billings Noble  January 4, 2021
On Craft

The Uncertainty of the Future Has Made Storytellers of Us All

By Nancy Star  November 23, 2020
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Colm Tóibín: How Rules of Craft Inhibit Creativity

By Literary Hub  November 4, 2020
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How to Write a Sci-Fi Rock ‘N’ Roll Novel in Rhyming Couplets

By Jason Guriel  October 19, 2020
On Craft

How to Write? Don’t… At Least Not Yet

By Johanna Hedva  October 16, 2020
On Craft

Wicked Wouldn’t Have Been What It Is If I Hadn’t Written the Novel by Hand

By Gregory Maguire  October 13, 2020
On Craft

Let’s Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

By Lincoln Michel  September 17, 2020
On Craft

Before the Essay, the Lecture: Nonfiction’s Lost Performative

By Mary Cappello  September 9, 2020
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If Only Doctors Could Treat Historical Guilt

By Katharina Volckmer  September 2, 2020
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Breaking Down the Roiling, Emotional Middle of a James Baldwin Narrative

By Daniel Joshua Rubin  August 19, 2020
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