Article Archive

Barbara Gowdy, whose novel Little Sisters is published this month by Tin House Books, and novelist Helen Phillips discuss profound empathy, how literature can change women’s relationships to their bodies, and writing against the odds.

Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: how art and pop culture influence memory.

Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: the memoirist’s curse.

Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: Gregory Orr’s “Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry.”

Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: assigning clear and objective tasks during the revision process.

Alex Dimitrov takes us through five journals that first published poems appearing in his new book, Together and by Ourselves.

Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Mary Gaitskill’s Somebody With a Little Hammer and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky.

Since its inception in 1987, the Writers Studio has grown from a small workshop in the West Village of New York City to an indispensable literary institution offering online courses, programming for children, and readings, craft classes, and workshops in five cities in the United States and abroad.

Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the Tallahassee, Florida–based Twisted Road Publications, which champions authors overlooked by mainstream publishing and “books that depict the shadowy places where the disenfranchised dwell.”

Kirby Kim offers valuable counsel on when to query, how to keep revising, and the market value of horror fiction.