The editor, the excavator
By Yi Shun LaiFeatures
Write a book in 90 days
By Jen GlantzHow to complete a first draft of your manuscript in three months or less.
Writing to save the world
By Melissa HartAuthors are becoming increasingly concerned about the state of our planet – and what we can do about it. Enter climate fiction, or “cli-fi,” a new genre that deals with climate change and global warming on both a modern and future scale.
When verse meets prose
By Jack SmithHow writing poems can enhance your fiction – and vice versa.
Where fiction & nonfiction collide
By Heather VillaThe top techniques writers should steal from novelists.
Let me send you some questions!
By Donna TalaricoAre email interviews ruining storytelling?
Departments
My favorite mobster
By Jaimie SeatonWhat a reformed bootlegger taught a cub reporter about journalism – and life.
A truthteller’s toolbox
By Linda LowenTen essential resources for nonfiction writers.
Letting go
By Pete CroattoSeven signs it’s time to say goodbye to a client.
Catapult
By Melissa HartThis multi-faceted organization is a literary journal, publishing house, writing center, and online community, all in one place.
The Frost Place Conference on Poetry
By Melissa HartA historic setting provides the perfect backdrop for a celebration of poetry and the artists who craft it.
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