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Orient Your Readers ASAP!

How to Write a Book Review

Writing Prompt: EXCLUSION

Edit Your Prose to Make It MATTER!

Karen Shepard on the Epistolary Essay, Mixed-Race Family Heritage, & Publication in 'The Paris Review'

Epistolary: Why Compose in Correspondence?

Is Your Novel Meant to be a Short Story?

Writing Prompt: HELD

The Vital Service That Authors Need & Few Book Publicists Even Mention

Well Published! Mega-bestselling Christina Baker Kline on Bad Editors, Hooking Readers, and Challenging Yourself as a Writer

Make a Haven of Your Writing Life (and Substack Publication) with the 7 D's

Dare We Write Through the Bodies of "Others"?

Should You Kill, Cut, or Keep Your Characters? (In Memoir, Too!)

The Transformative Magic of a Great MFA

Writing Prompt: INTERIOR

Lit Mags and Anthologies Can Help You Get Your Collection Published

Approaching Hybrid: In Workshop with Poet Bhanu Kapil

Well Published, Live! with Author and Literary Agent Jenna Satterthwaite

Another World in Translation

Writing Prompt: CUSP

What Now??? On Revising, Hiring an Editor, Launching an Author Platform, and Bugging Agents

I Believe in Books

How Do You Characterize the Voice in Your Story?

Turn the Key, an Interview with Virginia Woolf

Writing Prompt: PENTIMENTO

The MindMelding Art of Interiority on the Page

What Communities Shall We Imagine to Get Us Past America?

For the Love of Literary Writing, Start Here!

Writing Prompt: HALCYON

I Have Something to Tell You

Well Published, Live! with Award-Winning Fiction Author Rachel Khong

Writing Prompt: TRANSPLANT

The Fallacy of Form & Content

The Only True Republic For Which We Stand is Our Imagination, or How to 'Read at Whim'

Writing Prompt: CONTEMPT

Which of These Keys Will Unlock Your Story's Meaning?

Writing at Our Wit’s End

Writing Prompt: HALF

Well Published via Contests! Live with Aimee Liu & Toni Ann Johnson

Create to Survive! Live with Aimee Liu, Elena Georgiou, & Sherri L. Smith

Writing Prompt: NOSTALGIA

Tried & True Rules for a Superlative Writing Group

What "Are You Writing?" Truly Means Among Writers

Writing Prompt: BILATERAL

Anatomy of an Op-Ed

Writing Prompt: MOTHERING

What Gives a Story Structural Integrity?

Well Published, Live! with Christine Sneed

Writing Prompt: WELCOME

'Careless People' is a Model MWAM [Memoir With A Mission]

Making a Bed of Words

Writing Prompt: PREJUDICE

Authors, Beware of the Latest "Book Group" Scams

Things I Wish I’d Known When I Graduated from My MFA Program

Writing Prompt: PEEK

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