[Y]volve Publishing, a new press based in Chicago, has launched a chapbook series featuring poetry both written and edited by local teens.

A young developer discusses the genesis of her app, We Read Too, which offers an extensive database of multicultural books for young readers.

This year’s debut fiction roundup features emerging writers Zinzi Clemmons, Hala Alyan, Jess Arndt, Lisa Ko, and Diksha Basu.

Follow these agents on Twitter to gain insight into their tastes, author lists, and what kind of work they’re currently seeking.

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.

A fiction writer’s habit of imagining the lives of people who live in her favorite houses leads to serious research for her novel.  

Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: reading aloud.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has named Tracy K. Smith the next poet laureate of the United States.