Reading Time: 1 Min. Photo by Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash Starting back in 2018, Jami Attenberg brought together writers on social media as a means of accountability. The philosophy of #1000wordsofsummer was to develop a daily writing practice of 1000 words because small increments seem doable and quickly accrue. Over 33,000 writers subscribe to her […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Bob and Ed met at a San Francisco streetcar stop in 1970. The two men were in their early twenties. They had each come from watching the same film that evening, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s debauched landmark “Trash.” Ed, who wore a blue peacoat, his hair below his shoulders, spoke […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Writer, editor, and teacher Aaron Burch discusses how he’s learned to embrace his craft as a hobby and evolve from the little failures that lead to success Writing , Failure , First attempts , Success , Focus Part of: From a conversation with Shelby Hinte Highlights on Download as a PDF […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. CLICK TO HEAR JACK HALL’S INTERVIEW WITH VICTOR WORKMAN, UP PUBLISHERS ASSN Audio Player In its constant commitment to informing regional authors and publishers of the latest changes in the publishing world and offering effective marketing and writing innovations, the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) will hold its 26th […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Subscribe Strange, short, and diverting writing delivered to your inbox every Monday.. You Look Like a Skoo and You Smell Like One, Too Skoo Once upon a time, I had a terrible marriage. We couldn’t stop fighting. We fought all night. We fought so loudly the neighbors complained. We threw things […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Michelle Poirier Brown was shortlisted for the Federation of B.C. Writers poetry contest in 2023 Michelle Poirier Brown has been amazed by the writing community in the Okanagan since she moved to Vernon from Victoria Jan. 1, 2022. Her poem, Barefoot in the Salish Sea, was shortlisted for a 2023 Federation […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. ‘A Clock stopped’ is not one of Emily Dickinson’s best-known poems, but it uses its central metaphor to explore one of the most salient themes of her poetry: death. Dickinson uses the image of the stopped clock to reflect on the ending of a life and what this means. The clock […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. An illustration shows two faces in silhouette, overlaid with the outlines of a map of Libya. A crescent moon, a star and red and green swatches of color, hinting at the national flag, can be seen as well. MY FRIENDS, by Hisham Matar In the works of the Libyan-born writer Hisham […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Emily Raboteau’s forthcoming book, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse” , in which she “uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice—and what it takes to find shelter.” Lessons for Survival will be […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. I like to say my new novel, Underjungle, is a tale of love, loss, family, and war—set entirely underwater. So War and Peace , but three-thousand feet deeper. And considerably shorter. And maybe a little funnier, too. It’s also the story of an intelligent, meditative, and sometimes tempestuous species that discover […]
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