Columns
Book Contracts: Let’s Talk Money
As part of our Money Week series, literary agent Kate McKean shares the first installment of her column on book contracts, this one addressing advances, payouts, and royalties.
Help! Has Motherhood Made Me Too Sensitive to Write?
In the fourth installment of our Tarot + Craft column, Sarah Elaine Smith gives advice to a writer who is having difficulty putting their main character through trauma
Bookseller Spotlight: Shirikiana Aina Gerima of Sankofa Video, Books & Café
The Washington, D.C. bookstore “represents the generation of people who kept Black publishing and Black voices alive while they were under attack.”
Writing the Senses: Sight
In this five-part column, Hannah Howard explores the senses from a craft perspective
How Do I Write Amid Erasure?
Speaking of hijacking, we can subvert the oppressor’s literature.
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
Writers Who Eat: Laia Jufresa in Conversation with Bix Gabriel
This is still how I write, and this is also how I cook.
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.
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.
The Poetry of Comics: A Conversation With Johnny Damm, Author of ‘The Science of Things Familiar’
“I’m a writer who uses a scanner, an X-Acto knife, and the library.”