experimentation

The author of The White Mosque troubles the boundary between realist and genre fiction.

The author of Took House explores the importance of “strangeness” in poetry and offers a method for capturing this quality by combining two different draft poems.

The author of Took House explores a kinder approach to revision, in which language cut during one editorial process may be saved as material for a new writing project.

The author of [WHITE] considers how writers might take inspiration from visual artists in their approach to revision, pushing beyond surface editing to “see” their work afresh.

The author of [WHITE] explores how writing outside one’s primary genre can lead to literary breakthroughs.

The author of [WHITE] shares how experimenting with found texts can energize the poetic process and expand a poet’s lyric repertoire.

“It’s good to know who to trust, I’ve been learning, but also who to doubt.” —Eloghosa Osunde, author of Vagabonds!

“I wasn’t ready for how much this novel would demand.” —NoViolet Bulawayo, author of Glory

The author of I Know You Know Who I Am writes about stashing his surplus sentences and character sketches in an electronic “junk drawer.”