Real Life as Experiment: Letting Characters Play in Your Life
The author of Restitution (Regal House Publishing, September 2025) recommends writers use their own memories as a testing ground for their characters.
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How the Light Gets In: The Volcano
What does it mean to truly let loose as a writer? The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat urges us to lean into the fire and pressure head-on, to let everything out on the page and offer it up to the world.
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How the Light Gets In: The Firefly
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.
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Ten Questions for Cintia Santana
“For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process.” —Cintia Santana, author of The Disordered Alphabet
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Notes on Irreverent Translation
The author of Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues offers an approach to critically engaging with a colonialist literary canon.
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The Essay as Experiment
The author of Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues explores how formal experimentation and play can help move a writing project forward.
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The Accidental Poetry of Ninety-Nine-Cent Stores
The author of peep finds poetic surprises in the workaday language of commerce and culture.
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The Quotidian and the Code
The author of The White Mosque troubles the boundary between realist and genre fiction.
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Write It Again
The author of Took House explores what happens when poets permit themselves to write about the same subject multiple times.
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Make It Strange
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.
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