The Women Who Write Themselves Out of the Story
What we can learn from the effaced narrators of "Fleishman is in Trouble" and the Outline trilogy
Sep 23 - Amanda Minoff
books 
essays
It’s Time to Let Meat Loaf Into Your Embarrassing Little Heart
You think you're too cool for "Bat Out of Hell"? You're not.
Sep 19 - Rax King
writing 
We Are Writing Against Our Own Erasure
Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson's address to the recipients of this year's Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards
Sep 17 - Jacqueline Woodson
writing 
How Brexit Could Destroy the U.K. Publishing Industry
Proposed immigration policies aren't just xenophobic—they also threaten the country's creative and cultural life
Sep 12 - Holly Barrow
writing 
A Victorian Novelist Attempts To Write Queer Characters Without Getting Censored
They were simply good friends! Barely even friends. They had never met, actually.
Sep 6 - Colin Heasley
writing 
The Things My Dad Taught Me About Storytelling Won’t Show Up in an MFA
My father isn't a writer, but he taught me that so much of building a story happens off the page
Sep 5 - S. Bear Bergman
writing 
White Writers Pushed Me Out of Fiction and Into the Essay
Workshops made my stories feel so inauthentic that I switched forms altogether
Aug 27 - Aditi Natasha Kini
writing 
What Writers Need to Know About Morality Clauses
You may not even realize that your book contract could be canceled if you're accused of misconduct—or just cause drama
Jul 30 - Carrie V. Mullins
writing 
Who Needs an MFA When You Have This Literary Fiction Trope Checklist?
Include all 25 tropes and you'll probably get a Pulitzer
Jul 26 - R.L. Maizes
writing 
