Writing Resources

Earlier this month, Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres was banned from the Iowa City Schools. Smiley is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 17 novels, two collections of short fiction, five...

Is there a place in this world for political poetry? The question has always been a vexed one—and over the years, several poets and writers have answered with a firm...

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Melissa Petro. Melissa Petro Melissa Petro is a freelance writer, writing instructor, and author in New York...

Bishop’s University English professor Jessica Riddell describes her new book, Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing (McGill-Queen’s University Press, March 2024), as a “thought leadership manifesto.”...

On March 11, 2022, Molly McGhee shared a resignation letter on Twitter. She was quitting her job as an assistant editor at Tor, despite the fact that her first acquisition,...

Procrastinators, boss-havers, degenerate undergraduates, lend me your ears. Have you ever added extra spaces on an essay to meet a minimum page requirement? Sneakily increased the font size on periods...

Ian Rankin’s newest story, The Rise, sees a murder story play out in London’s most exclusive high-rise, with every shadowy resident becoming a potential suspect. “If it's as much fun...

“Should I be allowed to make this said?” Blake Butler writes in his new memoir, “Molly.” By the time he asks, it’s too late. He has already written more than...

James Joyce’s crayon edits of Ulysses. Photo: Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here...

“Sisters!,” chronicling stories about sisters and close friends who are just like sisters, was published in 2021 by the aforementioned Writers’ Workshop, the nation’s preeminent humor writing conference. It features...