Don’t Write Alone
“The literary challenge of this moment is restoring voice and agency to non-humans”: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh
“Both non-humans and human Others were represented as being fit to be ‘subdued’ (a word that recurs often in colonial texts).”
“I wanted to convey that conflict of balancing the expectations of two different cultures”: A Conversation with Mina Seçkin
“What would it look like for a person—one who is a disaffected millennial—to look for her soul in her body? That’s the question I wanted to write toward.”
Writing Richer Characters By Writing Kink
In the second installment of her column, Megan Pillow examines a short story by Carmen Maria Machado to demonstrate how some of the best examples of contemporary writing craft can be found in writing about sex.
What If We Taught Writing the Way We Teach Acting?
Actors studied movement, script analysis, emotional connection, our bodies, our voices. In my writing MFA, we got . . . workshop.
If I Want to Be a Writer, I Can’t Teach Writing
I wanted the dullest, most mindless job possible. I wanted all the stress to vanish. Maybe, if I had the freedom to think about nothing, I could write again.
How’s the Writing Going, R. O. Kwon?
“I know that when I’m really writing, when I’m really, really lost in a sentence, I forget I have a body, I forget what time is. I forget to eat.”
Drafting a Personal Essay Is Like Stumbling Through a Dance
You can study all you want, but it’s only in the act of doing that you learn what’s right and what isn’t.
What Can a Poetry Collection Do?
Read a conversation with Angel Nafis and Alexis Aceves Garcia and discover poems from our 12-Month Poetry Generator students in this publication showcase.
“Write your reality”: A Conversation with Janice Lee
“That is, my nonfiction isn’t any more ‘real’ than my fiction.”
Recreating the Places We Dreamt of Writing
Where Toni Mirosevich writes.
