A conversation between two best-selling authors turns into an impromptu master class in fiction under a canopy of leaves in southwestern Virginia.

“What we need to do is make people less certain about their certainties.” —Rosellen Brown, author of The Lake on Fire

A guide to 158 full-residency and 64 low-residency programs in creative writing, plus questions to consider before you apply.

In this continuing series, a book critic discusses Minnesota’s thriving literary community and the importance of reviewing small-press titles.

An agent answers questions on obtaining the copyright of a self-published novel and seeking a U.S. publisher from abroad.

A poet discusses four journals that published poems from her second collection, Instruments of the True Measure.

The first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Natasha Trethewey’s Monument: Poems New and Selected and Alice Walker’s Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart.