The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Write a poem about a formative childhood memory, a story with a powerful character who meets their demise, or an essay exploring your relationship with the spring rain.
Department: The Literary Life
Letting Go: How I Found an Agent After Giving Up
The author of Sing Something True recounts the path to writing the memoir she was afraid to write, grieving her identity as a writer after rejection, and finding solace (and representation) after shifting focus away from publication.
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Dear Poetry: Reflections on the Healing Power of Verse
The creator and host of the podcast Dear Poetry explores the practical power of poetry and contemplates the process of choosing poems to heal, comfort, and brighten daily life.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Write a poem in the form of an unapologia, a story about two characters who decide to keep a secret, or an essay about your personal history of Valentine’s Day.
What We Are Carrying: Meditations on a Writing Practice
An acclaimed poet and professor explores writing as a lifelong apprenticeship, the difference between mastery and fluency, various forms of practice and discipline, and the importance of living one’s writing life attentively.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Excercises
Write a poem that reflects on your everyday language, a story that explores the inner life of your protagonist during a transition, or an essay about how the history of Thanksgiving affects the way you experience the holiday.
Agents and Writers: When the Affair Is Over
Acknowledging that writers rarely speak of their failures with agents publicly, an author openly and honestly describes three disappointing experiences with agents that have nevertheless bolstered her resolve to find the right publishing partner.
Best Wishes: Stories From the Front of the Book-Signing Line
The best-selling author and humorist reflects on some of the most baffling requests he has received, and nearly always denied, while signing books after readings, including “Sign my organ donor card.”
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Write a poem in sections that considers the life and impact of an artist you admire, a story in which a protagonist relies on the harvest moon, or an essay inspired by back-to-school memories.
A Fertile Contamination: Considering Translations Among the Year’s Best Short Stories
The editor of The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners sees translation as a way of putting a language back in movement by allowing the currents of different languages to mix and blend.
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