November/December 2019

In a tiny bookshop in London, writer A. N. Devers spotlights women’s writing by only stocking rare books and modern first editions by female authors.

Poet and journalist Alissa Quart is bringing documentary poetry to major media outlets.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Grand Union by Zadie Smith and Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout.

A narrative medicine program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison helps doctors care for themselves and others through storytelling.

Unnamed Press, an L.A.–based press, aims to publish story-driven books by underrepresented or marginalized voices.

The author on five journals that published pieces from her story collection, Moon Trees and Other Orphans.

Heaven’s Vault, a video game by inkle, requires players to translate the runes of an ancient language.

Carl Phillips, the longtime judge of the Yale Younger Poets prize and the editor of the anthology Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, on how the prize has evolved during the past century.

A round-up of four new anthologies, including Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger edited by Lilly Dancyger.

Write a poem attempting to find meaning in visual artifacts, a short story about a world in which memories can be manipulated, or a nonfiction piece about the season’s soundscape.  

Follow three Philadelphia writers as they join a community of more than three hundred thousand writers participating in NaNoWriMo, a challenge to write a fifty-thousand-word novel during the month of November.