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On the Long, Lonely Apprenticeship of the Writing Life

On the Long, Lonely Apprenticeship of the Writing Life

Kayla Min Andrews Remembers Her Mother, Author Katherine Min

By Kayla Min Andrews | January 10, 2024

Memories Aren’t Enough: Why Sometimes Only Fiction Can Solve the Mysteries of Life

Memories Aren’t Enough: Why Sometimes Only Fiction Can Solve the Mysteries of Life

Emily Schultz on the Importance of Slanted Truths in Storytelling

By Emily Schultz | January 3, 2024

Stop Making Excuses: Why There’s Always Time to Follow Your Writing Dreams

Stop Making Excuses: Why There’s Always Time to Follow Your Writing Dreams

Angela Brown on Finding Inspiration in Failed New Year’s Resolutions

By Angela Brown | January 2, 2024

Life Concentrated: Kate Brody on Writing About the Internet

Life Concentrated: Kate Brody on Writing About the Internet

“This is how we live now. What do we have to say about it?”

By Kate Brody | January 2, 2024

Writing in Tandem: Inside the Process of Cross-Racial Creative Collaboration

Writing in Tandem: Inside the Process of Cross-Racial Creative Collaboration

Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene on the Challenges and Benefits of Co-Authorship

By Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene | December 15, 2023

Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Debbie Urbanski on the Possibility and Promise of Human-Machine Creative Collaboration

By Debbie Urbanski | December 8, 2023

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Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

"Over time I learned how to stare into that loss, a loss that brought more pain and longing than I’d ever felt, and pull her back through it."

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"When we craft stories, we don’t necessarily write ourselves; sometimes we write the characters and stories we need to see."

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The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

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Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu on Crafting and Subverting Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | September 27, 2023

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

"At the very moment that you take on the greatest act of caring, you discover how powerless you are."

By Molly Lynch | September 25, 2023

Estranging English: Mandy-Suzanne Wong on Constructing New Literary Languages

Estranging English: Mandy-Suzanne Wong on Constructing New Literary Languages

"When you are a foreigner, nothing around you is necessarily what it is."

By Mandy-Suzanne Wong | September 19, 2023

What's Unreal is Real: Alicia Elliott on the Tired Trope of Madness in Fiction

What's Unreal is Real: Alicia Elliott on the Tired Trope of Madness in Fiction

"There is a cheapness to this sort of revelation."

By Alicia Elliott | September 18, 2023

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

"It’s both mystical and humiliating how your novel can know things before you yourself know them."

By James Frankie Thomas | September 13, 2023

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