writing process

“You’re neither the genius nor the failure you think you are.” —Jack Wang, author of We Two Alone

“I will miss these characters living in my head.” —Monica West, author of Revival Season

“I need the volume of more than one trusted reader to hear suggestions over my own investment in being right.” —Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations

The author of With Teeth examines how a single joke can be successfully repackaged and retold over time.

“There are so many journeys I’d like to take” —Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides

“There’s something sort of final and fulfilling about discovering, say, that a poem’s floor is also its ceiling.” —Justin Jannise, author of How to be Better by Being Worse

“Writers cannot afford the luxury of emotional numbness nor protective armor.” —Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of My Broken Language