Teaching Writing and Breaking Rules By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Rules can ruin the kind of exciting language that makes literature rewarding, but some rules also enhance writing. It’s challenging to find the middle ground.
Moving Literary Life Off the Page By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight For one poet, conducting a satisfying literary life off-page required living life outside the classroom.
Purging the Unhealthy Value System of the American Literary World By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight It’s time writers free themselves from concepts like “break out books” and “making it.”
How The Cult of Masculinity Can Poison Creative Writing Programs By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight There are numerous ways to tell stories. In her turn MFA program, one writer encountered a literary culture that espoused gendered aesthetics and fostered toxic masculinity.
The Little Book That Lost Its Author By Amber Caron Feature How will artificial intelligence change literature?
On Keeping a Notebook: A Reading List By Jeanne Bonner Reading List In this reading list, Jeanne Bonner ruminates on the joys of writing by hand and keeping a notebook.
Editors Thinking About Editing at the AWP Conference By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary The only way to work as an editor and a writer is to continue learning from other editors and writers.
It’s Not a Literary Renaissance When You’ve Been Telling Stories Since the Dawn of Time By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.
The High Cost of Becoming a Writer as a Single Mom By Sari Botton Highlight Stephanie Land endured poverty, loneliness, and more to pursue her dream of being a writer.
