GalleyCrush: Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch, forthcoming from Doubleday on July 20, 2021.
Article Archive
Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
Words Matter: Copyediting as a Process for (or Against) Social Change
Copy editors are adapting to increasing cultural awareness of racial injustice and new approaches to representing identity on the page. How can their work can help or hinder social change?
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Reviewers & Critics: Jennifer Szalai of the New York Times
The critic on how she began writing reviews, how she and the Times staff pick books to cover, and how social media affects her work.
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Q&A: Ehrlich Speaks to Mother-Writers
Lara Ehrlich, the host of the podcast Writer Mother Monster, debunks the superwoman myth and considers how to balance writing and motherhood.
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Literary MagNet: Alex McElroy
The fiction writer and essayist on five journals that published their work and helped shape their debut novel, The Atmospherians.
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The Power of the PERIPLUS Collective
The PERIPLUS collective aims to democratize writing and publishing by matching emerging BIPOC writers with established authors and publishing professionals for yearlong mentorships.
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Small Press Points: Black Ocean
Established in 2004, the indie press strives to treat poetry as a genre with “frontlist potential” while also publishing fiction, nonfiction, and literature in translation from new voices.
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Agent Advice: Iwalani Kim of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
The literary agent answers questions about submitting story collections, getting an agent’s attention, and querying two agents at the same agency.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
Three new anthologies including Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry and There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters From a Crisis.
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The Thousand Pages: Tips for Transitioning to the Novel
The author of The Step Back offers strategies for short-story writers trying to draft a novel for the first time and shares how a new approach—aiming to pen a thousand pages—led to his first novel.
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Twelve Pieces of Advice for Mother-Writers
Author Lara Ehrlich, the host of Writer Mother Monster, shares a selection of the best insights and advice offered on the podcast.
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The Legacy of June Jordan
An excerpt from The Essential June Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller and published in May by Copper Canyon Press.
Saddle Up and Read
To foster a love of reading among kids in North Carolina, Caitlin Gooch started a program through which children can read books to horses.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Second Place by Rachel Cusk and The Renunciations by Donika Kelly.
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Andy Weir and the Digital Revolution in Publishing
An excerpt from Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing, published in May by Polity.
A Decade of Women Who Submit
Ten years after its first meeting, Women Who Submit has grown to a global community that continues to empower women and nonbinary writers to seek publication.
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Ten Questions for Justin Jannise
“There’s something sort of final and fulfilling about discovering, say, that a poem’s floor is also its ceiling.” —Justin Jannise, author of How to be Better by Being Worse
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Craft Capsule: Writing With Limitations
The author of Martha Moody finds new strategies to sustain her creative life after suffering a head injury.
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GalleyCrush: Ghost Forest
Pik-Shuen Fung’s Ghost Forest, forthcoming from One World on July 13, 2021.
Ten Questions for Quiara Alegría Hudes
“Writers cannot afford the luxury of emotional numbness nor protective armor.” —Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of My Broken Language
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Craft Capsule: Freedom
The author of Martha Moody celebrates the creative freedom of small-scale indie publishing.
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Cover Reveal: What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. Chancy
An exclusive first look at Myriam J. A. Chancy’s What Storm, What Thunder, which is forthcoming from Tin House on October 5, 2021.
Ten Questions for Kaitlyn Greenidge
“Do the hard stuff first.” —Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie
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Craft Capsule: In Praise of Italics
The author of Martha Moody writes about the intimacy and queerness of italics.
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GalleyCrush: Seek You
Kristen Radtke’s Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, forthcoming from Pantheon on July 6, 2021. Editor’s Note: This book’s publication date has been changed to July 13, 2021.