Writing Resources

Could you tell us about your trajectory as a writer/illustrator/translator? This was a trajectory which I never really realised was happening. As a child, my favourite hobby was reading, and...

Author ProvidedEvery writer has a story about how they became a novelist. Here's mine, in five acts.Act IEarly life montage: boyhood in rural Wisconsin, convinced for absolutely no reason that...

Summer of Smut A stimulating guide to the horny books all over best-seller lists and our TikTok feeds. Read responsibly. Illustration: Sunny Wu Let’s keep Freak Week going! Join the Cut...

Jane Huffman is a Ph.D. candidate in poetry at the University of Denver, holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre and English from Kalamazoo College. A graduate of the...

Now in their 17th year, the awards are a longstanding partnership between National Centre for Writing, Jarrolds and the Eastern Daily Press, supported by the University of East Anglia Faculty of...

I love how practical Octavia was about how we move toward the future — considering not just how things need to change, not just that we need to reorganize ourselves...

In the mid-1970s, having recently graduated from Columbia University, Sigrid Nunez was hired as an editorial assistant by The New York Review of Books. There, she would work alongside the...

Maggie Doherty and I have known each other for thirteen years, which I know because I met her at the same party where I met my husband. For the past...

Since graduating from the Iowa Writers Workshop Claire Lombardo has written a New York Times best-selling novel, The Most Fun We Ever Had, which is now being turned into a...

My first introduction to Camille Bordas came through her stories in the New Yorker—perfectly formed marvels, funny, skeptical, self-aware, and humane. I loved them for their seeming lightness: there was clearly...