Healing From Helene
In the aftermath of the September 2024 hurricane, the literary community has banded together to support North Carolina residents trying to rebuild their lives and has provided hope in the long recovery process.
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In the aftermath of the September 2024 hurricane, the literary community has banded together to support North Carolina residents trying to rebuild their lives and has provided hope in the long recovery process.
Writers share how they approach the writing life where they live, their personal points of view on the literary community (both small and large) and their place within it, and what resources are available to them as writers who don’t live in a metropolitan area.
Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on writing about family by considering how “pockets of place can convey a larger sense of home.”
Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on how to write about family by considering lessons learned over a lifetime.
Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on how to write about family by imagining fictive dialogues.
Ten authors answer the question: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
Inspired by the bioluminescence of the anglerfish, the author of Something New Under the Sun encourages writers to furnish their own light and plumb the unknown depths of their text with the hunger of a deep-sea predator.
Taking inspiration from a creature of the summer, a seasoned writer suggests a few approaches to stimulate, refresh, and gather your thoughts for the next stage of writing and spark your imagination with play.
A century-long art project that pledges a grove of spruces in Norway to print one hundred sealed manuscripts, the Future Library is a source of optimism in the looming climate crisis that we can still build a future full of stories.
Writing and revising often seem to hinge on bringing new possibilities into focus. A poet considers the camera obscura as a metaphor for how an inversion of the light can transform and attune us to the moment.