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More and more publishers and authors are using video as a promotional tool to attract the attention of a younger generation. But before writers collaborate with their publishers on book trailers—or even produce their own—there are some important points to keep in mind.
A decade after a devastating burglary stripped him of nearly everything he had written and his will to keep writing, Andrew Porter comes back stronger than ever with his debut short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter.
Writers can use routine exercises to clear their minds and establish focus before settling in to the real work.
Ordering poems becomes a familiar act if you consider the lyric poem in its original form—the song. And if you were the kind of incessant list-maker Nick Hornby describes in his novel High Fidelity, the kind who also made mix tapes from your album collection. If you were the kind of geek my college boyfriend, Tim, was and—admittedly—the kind I was too.
First-time author Alan Drew talks about how teaching in Istanbul led to studying at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he met his agent and began writing his first novel.
“Can you really teach creative writing?” Professor and novelist Dan Barden answers this while offering his own unorthodox approaches to teaching a workshop.
