workshop

Ugh, I’m in My Friend’s Autofiction and I Hate It: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

 
By Kristen Arnett  January 23, 2025
Am I the Literary Asshole?

Am I the Literary Assh*le? In Which Everyone Talks Sh*t About Everyone Else

By Kristen Arnett  February 22, 2024
Imprisoned Writers

Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

By Chris Hedges  October 21, 2021
Travel

Edvard Munch taking criticism badly is all of us.

By Walker Caplan  February 24, 2021
In Memoriam

Obstinate Love: In Memory of the Great Ved Mehta

By Chaya Bhuvaneswar  February 4, 2021
On Craft

25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

By Matthew Salesses  January 19, 2021
Workshop

The Case Against Critical Feedback

By Lauren D. Woods  October 22, 2020
The Writing Life

Writing as Code-Switching for the Socially Anxious

By Mai Tran  April 23, 2020
Workshop

We Owe More to Our Young Writers: On the Relevance of the Workshop

By Ru Freeman  April 16, 2020
MFA Life

Ten MFA Archetypes To Avoid (Becoming)

By Caroline Zancan  February 3, 2020
Workshop

Lessons From a Nightmarish Writing Workshop

By Nina Schuyler  January 10, 2020
Craft

The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: ‘Show, Don’t Tell’

By Sonya Huber  September 27, 2019
Craft and Criticism

What Not to Expect From a Grad School Workshop

By Lynn Steger Strong  September 6, 2019
MFA Life

Unsilencing the Writing Workshop

By Beth Nguyen   April 3, 2019
Feature

The Four Times I Became a Teacher

By Beth Kephart  September 10, 2018
Essay

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Writing Group

By Kaethe Schwehn  February 20, 2018
Essay

The Largesse of Denis Johnson

By Mary O'Connell  January 16, 2018
Op-Ed

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

By Brandon Taylor  July 11, 2017
Essay

The Greatest Writers’ Group in the History of Iowa

By Ben Miller  April 7, 2016
Feature

On Lucia Berlin, Mentor, Friend

By Chip Livingston  December 17, 2015

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