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Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

Eric Olson Profiles the Author of “An Oral History of Atlantis”

By Eric Olson | July 30, 2025

Katie Yee on the Writing Lessons of a Great Prank

Katie Yee on the Writing Lessons of a Great Prank

“Both pranking and writing are exercises in careful observation.”

By Katie Yee | July 25, 2025

On Hybrid Writing: Finding the Right Container for the Story You Need to Tell

On Hybrid Writing: Finding the Right Container for the Story You Need to Tell

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante Embrace the Importance of Genre Fluidity

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 25, 2025

On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force

On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the Importance of the Singular Image

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 18, 2025

Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

How Issa Quincy Delights in the Tension of Drafting Through Uncertainty

By Issa Quincy | July 16, 2025

Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

“I think writing is mainly work.”

By Sam Weller | July 11, 2025

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Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

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Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

By Libby Buck | July 1, 2025

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The First in a Five-Part Series on the Craft of Writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | June 27, 2025

Leila Mottley Wonders If You Can Truly Write a Place You’ve Never Been

Leila Mottley Wonders If You Can Truly Write a Place You’ve Never Been

Creating an Authentic World Without Living in It

By Leila Mottley | June 27, 2025

Three Kids, Three Pasts: Tennessee Hill on Using Multiple POVs to Explore Shared Memory

Three Kids, Three Pasts: Tennessee Hill on Using Multiple POVs to Explore Shared Memory

The Author of “Girls with Long Shadows” Digs into Divergent Recollections

By Tennessee Hill | June 25, 2025

Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry as Liberty

Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry as Liberty

The Author of “Agrippina the Younger” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | June 23, 2025

Jess Walter Eats Breakfast Three or Four Times While Writing (and Other Literary Tidbits)

Jess Walter Eats Breakfast Three or Four Times While Writing (and Other Literary Tidbits)

The Author of “So Far Gone” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | June 10, 2025

Anna Mitchael on the Lessons of Ghostwriting

Anna Mitchael on the Lessons of Ghostwriting

"This learning isn’t just for those who quietly write stories for others."

By Anna Mitchael | May 30, 2025

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

The Author of "Disappoint Me" Reflects on Readers Seeing Her and Themselves in Fiction's Mirror

By Nicola Dinan | May 27, 2025

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