Jun 17, 2021
How Writing My Young Adult Novel Helped Me Reclaim the Queer Girlhood I Lost
The years I suppressed my queerness are a loss that I'm exploring and grieving—if only through fiction.
Promoting My Book with Postpartum Depression
I previously had no concept of what it was like to be a victim of your troubled mind.
Jun 16, 2021
Keep Writing, Just Keep Writing
As a way to cope with rejection, I often repeated to myself: Focus on the work rather than the results.
Apr 06, 2021
Writing Myself Back Into My Body and Into the World
We have the right to imagine what is possible beyond the systems that try to destroy us. Black and queer writers have long imagined worlds beyond this one.
Mar 22, 2021
Does Your Revision Process Need More Taylor Swift?
For all her various contrived public personas and her possibly manufactured cult following, Taylor Swift is a modern day poet.
Mar 10, 2021
Let It Be Strange: A Conversation with Naima Coster, Author of ‘What’s Mine and Yours’
“The book is not straightforward, but it is expansive, and I don’t think the only way to make a story cohere is chronology.”
Mar 02, 2021
What Nourishes Your Writing Ecosystem?
On the value of understanding the kind of ecosystem that will support and sustain the flourishing of our lives, on and off the page.
Mar 01, 2021
Jaya Saxena on Giving Ourselves Permission
“If you pick up a crystal and suddenly your writer’s block is gone, it’s not the crystal—it’s you using an object to allow yourself to think differently.”
Feb 26, 2021
A Conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore, Author of ‘Earth’s Wild Music’
“Linking climate action and environmental protection to social justice action is essential. It is still possible to hope.”
Feb 16, 2021
Nadia Owusu on Writing and the Work of Staying Hopeful
“I was grateful for the beauty and for the reminders that there are seasons; that things change gradually and also suddenly.”
Feb 03, 2021
Six Authors Demystify Publishing with a Small Indie Press
Nina Boutsikaris, Jessica Gross, Sarah Minor, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Tyrese Coleman, and Noam Dorr chat about what they’ve learned—and wish they’d known—about publishing with a small indie press.
Feb 02, 2021
A Conversation with Randa Jarrar, Author of ‘Love Is An Ex-Country’
“There were awkward motel and Airbnb moments involving my dog and other people’s pets. But I’m glad I have a record of those, even if I wasn't able to elevate them into art.”
Feb 01, 2021
Alice Wong on Activism, Community, and Writing
“I feel such rage—and it clarified what is important to me and what I want to write about.”
Jan 27, 2021
On Worldbuilding and the Question of Resistance
In fiction, you can feel good about resistance without actually resisting anything.
Jan 19, 2021
When There Is No Right Way to Heal
The details of those poems may be his first inkling that I know what he did.
Nov 12, 2020
Finding an “I” in Indian Literature
It turns out all I want to find in literature, whether I write or read it, is a little piece of myself.
Sep 17, 2020
Writing Sex with Women, by Women, for Women
People have sex. Women have sex. It would feel irresponsible to censor or smooth over this part of their (and our) lives.
Sep 14, 2020
I Am Partially Deaf and I Write to Be Heard
Why can’t the abled world fit into our world?
Sep 10, 2020
When Work Doesn’t Love You Back
Reflecting on my personal work history, I’ve learned that searching for a job I love has often kept me from balance in my creative life.
Aug 13, 2020
Writing Our Pandemic Stories: May & June
In this three-installment column, Chloe Caldwell and her 12-month essay generator students write about their daily life during the Covid-19 crisis
Jun 09, 2020
