Don’t Write Alone
Writers of Color Reflect on Isolation
Since the onset of the pandemic, isolation has been, for good or bad, a major feature of life. Here you’ll find reflections from several writers of color, shared by POC United.
An Exercise in Building Character (Both Ways)
How do you write a character’s particularity in a way that ensures it’s different from your own? Check out this writing prompt from Ryan Chapman!
Five Exercises to Clarify What You’re Writing About
If you’re having trouble seeing the forest through the trees, these exercises will help you pinpoint what kind of story you’re trying to tell—and who your audience might be.
An Exercise to Help You Find Your Voice
Try this writing exercise from Simon Van Booy if you feel you need help finding your voice, whether you are writing nonfiction or fiction.
Editor-in-Chief Mensah Demary on Growing Soft Skull Press as a Literary Home for Creative, Risk-Taking Writers
“Sometimes I think this is my only role as an editor: to convince the world, starting with the publisher, that a book should exist.”
“I’m a work-in-progress”: A Conversation with Anjali Enjeti
Anjali Enjeti is a writer and activist with two books out this year: the essay collection SOUTHBOUND and her debut novel THE PARTED EARTH
Learning to Write My Truth as a Deaf Queer Writer
The best thing that writing can do is to replace a shallow illusion with something more nuanced and closer to the truth.
Where Crystal Hana Kim Writes
Before, this room was full of books, a reading chair, plants. Now we’ve got a crib, a changing table, a glider. I’ve kept my desk, though.
Writing the Senses: Touch
In this five-part column, Hannah Howard explores the senses from a craft perspective
