Killing Your Inner Perfectionist
The critic who lives in your head can ruin everything you try to write—but how do you shut it up?
Dec 19 - Courtney Maum
writing 
essays
How I Learned to Embrace Jamaican Patois, the Language of My Youth
To get past the shame I was taught to feel about the creole I grew up with, I had to rediscover it in books
Dec 4 - Donna Hemans
books 
Being Indian Is Not a Superpower
My characters are Native because they're Native, not because their Native-ness is going to let them save the world
Nov 27 - Stephen Graham Jones
writing 
Your Book Might Not Sell, and You Have to Live With That
I didn't write my book for the money, but I wasn't really prepared for it to go nowhere
Nov 19 - Abigail Rasminsky
writing 
How Literary Translation Can Shift the Tides of Power
As a translator, I need to think carefully about whose words get to be heard and understood
Nov 12 - Jen Wei Ting
writing 
What Happens When the Apocalypse You’re Writing Starts to Come True?
What I learned about living in our endangered world from writing a post-disaster fantasy
Oct 28 - Helen Brain
writing 
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
writing 
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 
