Article Archive: Special Section

When feeling beaten by your manuscript, come back to the page with humility and curiosity, and remember the ways that this work feeds you.

Artificial intelligence has irrevocably changed the paradigm of publishing. A journalist and editor speaks to agents about their thoughts on AI in a professional context, raising questions about contracts, rights, and the nature of art.

It’s a stranger time than ever to exist online. An experienced agent at Frances Goldin advises anxious writers to focus on craft and not let cultivating an online following get in the way of writing the strongest manuscript possible.

When your work is being judged with all identifying information removed, an artist statement enables you to share who you are as a writer, your motivation, and your influences—creating a map from your now to a dreamed-of future.

Writing contests that accept excerpts as short-form prose can help you keep up the momentum during the long journey to book publication. Contest winners and other experts share what it takes to create an attention-grabbing excerpt.

Gatherings like the Heart of It are part of a boom in writer-run retreats and workshops that serve as homegrown alternatives to established retreats, addressing a need for kinship, in-person community, and mentorship.

Since 2005, Poets & Writers Magazine has highlighted emerging poets in an annual feature on first poetry books. In celebration, we gathered a list of the 222 poets and their debut collections that have graced our pages.