Tag: Writing

“I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”

Learning lessons about love while living in a 1961 Artcraft mobile home in Moab, Utah.

“Darkness obscures and sunlight reveals, but dusk—that liminal moment in between—murmurs suggestions.”

Congratulations to Matthew Salesses, Tim Requarth, Mojgan Ghazirad, Shanna B. Tiayon, Joe Fassler, and The Counter, our partner in co-publishing Fassler’s piece.

On letting go of potential and other myths of greatness.

In isolation, Stephanie Land finds surprising relief from PTSD — and discovers she is able to write again.

Our stories matter. And they are our legacies for future generations. (Plus: some free writing resources.)

For one poet, conducting a satisfying literary life off-page required living life outside the classroom.

If you are the family breadwinner, how do you calculate the value of time with your children?

“Though the embryo was only seven weeks old, I loved it. I loved it and wanted it, and its life ended.”

Sarah Menkedick examines the perils inherent in trying to earn a living as a full-time writer.

“Every fiction about the future is like an ice-cream cone,” Gibson says, “melting as it moves into the future.”

Today’s memoirists and personal essay writers owe a debt of gratitude to the Prozac Nation author for rewriting an inhibiting rule.

Rule one of freelance writing: accept rejection with grace.

Struggling with fluctuating hormones, Wendy Gan is inspired by the musician Mino to stop muting herself and return to writing.

Former baker Michael Mount explores the interplay of community, cookie dough, and changing terrain on Martha’s Vineyard

One day, Ge Gao’s right hand stopped working. Then the pain started, and it’s never stopped.

Emma Jacobs takes us on an illustrated journey of Hugo’s writing life in exile on Guernsey, where he completed Les Misérables.

Mary H.K. Choi discusses her latest novel, which examines how “holograms and digital envoys” represent us online, and why it feels like her “second book signals the death of my first.”

‘The history of the West is a deeply turbulent one… that kept the living population in a constant state of unrest. I thought this constant state of unrest must be true for the dead as well.’

The editors of “Shapes of Native Nonfiction” talk about the craft of writing, the politics of metaphor, and resisting the exploitation of trauma.

“In workshop, what, if anything, can be written on a syllabus or spoken aloud in class to ensure that each and every participant’s work is read with care?”

How Cecelia Watson learned to stop worrying and love the semicolon.

“I thought for sure, I’ll never write about Rilke again. I’m done with Rilke! I’m sick of Rilke! Rilke — no more. But then the other day … I just started researching something about Rilke.”

Eleven women writers on this apocryphal publishing milestone.

When she dipped her heart into someone else’s relationship, Emily Lackey discovered how to define love on her own terms.

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

The recently re-appreciated novelist Rachel Ingalls passed away last month. She was among a cohort of twentieth-century women writers who were ‘famous for not being famous.’

Frances Dodds recalls two men who laid bare the fragile lines between desire, pain and manipulation — and questions the framework of her own fantasies.

More of this sort of thing, thanks.