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Character Development: A National Novel Writing Month Pep Talk

If you’ve attempted to write 50,000 words in one month, please raise your eyebrows. Then, imagine doing it like William Smitherman, from the confines of a prison on an outdated, tiny, flaky android tablet (feel free to keep your eyebrows raised and add a tilt of your head). The content you write can only be […]

Alice Notley on Writing from Dreams

An excerpt from the following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter. I’ve been using dream materials in my poems since I first began writing poetry in the late sixties. I’ve taken words, images, narratives, parts of narratives from my own dreams and repeated them, transformed them, commented on, and sung them. […]

HBO renews contract with controversial House of the Dragon writer, fans react

Sara Hess has been a writer and producer for big-name television shows like House and Orange is the New Black . Her latest project as a writer was House of the Dragon, season 1. A section of House of the Dragon fans, especially the ones who have read the book Fire & Blood , on […]

Readers & Writers: Mysteries, murders and thrillers in new releases

We’ve got additions to mystery series’ today, as well as non-fiction about a sensational 19th-century murder case. We’ll start with the most anticipated — John Sandford’s 32nd Prey thriller and two thrillers by Brian Freeman, including his 11th featuring Duluth cop Jonathan Stride. “Righteous Prey ” by John Sandford (Putnam, $29.95) Lucas Davenport and Virgil […]

Art Writing as an Extension of Life

Margaret Randall, Artists in My Life (New Village Press, 2022) Cover image is a portrait of the author by Elaine de Kooning. “What do we expect or want from books about ancient archaeological sites?” asks Margaret Randall in chapter six of Artists in My Life (New Village Press, 2022). She goes on to muse about […]

He’s a felon who was homeless. He just won two prestigious national writing awards

Writer Frank Kensaku Saragosa, who was formerly homeless, poses near a sidewalk encampment in San Diego. SAN DIEGO — Omaha native Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an […]

Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

Among the words that have long lain in helpless exhaustion, shunned and hidden away, words that one made a mockery of oneself by using, words that were so drained of meaning that they shriveled and became ugly warnings—among these one finds the word “poet.” And any person who still took up the activity of writing, […]

Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village.

Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an embankment off Commercial Street near Interstate 5. Saragosa, 56, was anxious that some of the homeless people in the sidewalk encampments […]

Santa Cruz’s Writers of Color tell stories we might otherwise never hear

Click here to view original web page at Santa Cruz’s Writers of Color tell stories we might otherwise never hear Writers of Color Santa Cruz County hosts an event featuring poetry and music at the Museum of Art & History Oct. 6. On one level, the term “people of color” is a way to categorize […]