Don’t Write Alone
“My personal story needs to give way to something greater”: A Conversation with Anna Qu
“I don’t want the reader to walk away feeling the cruelties that have been inflicted on me; the stake isn’t my personal pain.”
Nobody Cares What You Have to Say—That’s a Good Thing
Trying to get your work published often feels like calling out into the void, which can be disheartening, but also incredibly freeing.
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Where Nawaaz Ahmed Writes
The space that anchored me through a year of the pandemic, a safe harbor, feels too claustrophobic now. I crave to be outside.
Help! Should I Write What I Want—Or Should I Try to Make Money?
In the third installment of our Tarot + Craft column, Sarah Elaine Smith gives advice to a writer who wonders if their style is too weird for readers
Alone Together: An Interview with Kristen Radtke, Author of ‘Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness’
As we are released from our homes and can start to have dinner with our friends again, it doesn’t mean that the problem of American loneliness is gone or has even really changed.
Writers Who Eat: Laia Jufresa in Conversation with Bix Gabriel
This is still how I write, and this is also how I cook.
Branching Infinity: Exploring the Many Structures of Interactive Fiction
The difference between interactive and traditional fiction isn’t a clear binary at all: Both require an approach to structure that balances openness and control, and each contains lessons for the other.
Putting Your Ear to the Tracks: A Conversation with Leesa Cross-Smith
Jessica Wilbanks asks Leesa Cross-Smith about the craft choices at work in her short story, “Whiskey & Ribbons,” which later became a novel.
Learning the Elements of a Screenplay
If you’re interested in writing screenplays, it’s important to get to know the nearly identical format all screenplays and film scripts follow.
Bookseller Spotlight: Hannah Oliver Depp of Loyalty Bookstores
Depp has built Loyalty into a highly regarded brand, one that honors her vision of an independent bookstore committed to social justice.
