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An experienced science writer, poet, author, and teacher offers tips to help writers emerge from the editing process professionally and emotionally intact, including how to establish a congenial and constructive relationship with your editor.
A review of thirteen literary magazines, including the Bennington Review, American Chordata, and the Margins, that will give even the most jaded reader a sense of renewed hope for the possible.
Five editors at some of the most innovative and finely curated literary journals around talk about the joys and difficulties of their work, from supporting new writers to sending more rejections than they’d like.
A look at programs that are ahead of the curve in creating safe and nurturing spaces for diverse communities, including those with a faculty that reflects the student body and those that hold space for writers working in languages besides English.
Before a calling to write can turn into a pursuit of the craft, a writer needs one thing: belief that their words and their ideas matter. Four writers reflect on the people and moments that gave them permission to make their art.
Twelve recent and forthcoming books by some of contemporary literature’s most insightful and generous luminaries provide valuable support and advice for those finding their own path as a writer.
A memoirist and poetry editor shows how the practice of close reading—studying a work sentence by sentence or line by line—can illuminate how one’s favorite authors use tiny details to build worlds.
An acclaimed author and distinguished professor offers advice for workshop participants who want to create an open, equitable, encouraging, and positively challenging workshop experience for themselves.
A former director of a graduate writing program offers tips on compiling the most common MFA application materials, including a statement of purpose, a writing portfolio, letters of recommendation, and transcripts.
Selling your book can be an adventure. Follow along on an author’s journey from signing with an agent to the fabled land of the book deal—with only a few peevish publishing ogres along the way.
