The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Explore your inner soundtrack, make your character sweat, and embrace your many identities—three prompts to keep you writing this summer.
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Explore your inner soundtrack, make your character sweat, and embrace your many identities—three prompts to keep you writing this summer.
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Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the San Francisco–based feminist press Aunt Lute Books.
Editor Yuka Igarashi highlights five journals that first published debut stories included in PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017, forthcoming in August from Catapult.
Picador editor on supporting overlooked voices; new e-book project explores digital ownership; Margaret Atwood’s additions to The Handmaid’s Tale audiobook; and other news.
Compose a collaborative renga with a friend, inject surreal motifs into your fiction, and explore your relationship with a parent or child through the lens of one embarrassing memory—three prompts to keep your pen on the page this spring.