When you build your own literary education from workshops and mentorships, travel and books, learning is tailored to the books you dream of writing.

Writers including CJ Hauser, Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Uttama Patel, and Ethan Rutherford reflect on the quieter wins that have affirmed them as writers, with or without a medal or trophy.

The author of Dreamt I Found You talks to editors and writers about a growing number of prizes honoring debuts at age 50, 60, 70, or beyond, recognizing that there is no one timeline for being a writer.

A unique field of awards recognizes the capacity of writers to tell the Earth’s stories with wonder and to advocate for its protection. 

The author of Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction reveals how every debut author’s dream of landing an agent is matched by the hunger of every young agent to land a successful debut and establish themselves.

The author of Best Copy Available takes a close look at the Anthropic copyright settlement and unpacks the ruling of fair use after the company amassed a library of over seven million books to build and train its large language model.

The Morgan Library & Museum illuminates the poet John Ashbery’s artistic and personal influences through an exhibition of manuscripts and twenty-five works on paper.

The poet Alan Chazaro highlights journals that have published his poems, which meditate on the “physical and social dimensions” of space.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla and I Was Bonnie & Clyde by Laura Kasischke.

“Take pleasure in publishing work you love,” says Ander Monson, founder of New Michigan Press. Steered by this guidance and a taste for the off-kilter, the press has produced chapbooks and the magazine Diagram for over twenty years.