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Alicia Cook on Blackout Poetry and the Art of Erasure
Blackout poetry is often misunderstood as a casual exercise: a Sharpie, a borrowed page, an afternoon of crossing things out. The poet Alicia Cook has spent her career proving how far that assumption misses. Across her bestselling “mixtape”...
Kritika Pandey on Writing Fiction That Outwits the Pattern
On a snowy day in Amherst, around one of those long seminar tables, Kritika Pandey heard the question that would reorganize her sense of what fiction is for. What if the dead mother in her story were still alive? Or what if the narrator sim...
Writing with the Garden: Louise Glück's The Wild Iris and an Exercise for Plant Writing
It’s high spring, almost summer, and the world is in its greening. Gardens are blooming and, everywhere, the plants sing to us.
It’s no secret that I write with plants. Read any of my work – my novel, Leafskin, or my poetry chapbook, The C...
Cara Benson on Cutting Dead Weight and Keeping Readers Turning the Page
Cara Benson does not kill her darlings. When a sentence she loves stops earning its keep, she tucks it into a separate document she calls “cuttings” and lets it nap, ready to be woken when the right piece comes along. It is a telling habit...
No Direction Home: A San Francisco Story
This craft essay comes from fiction writer Tom Andes, who teaches our Advanced Short Fiction 8-Week Zoom Workshop beginning Monday, June 22, 2026. Below, he reads a Gina Berriault story to think through plot, motive, and the container of a...
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Award-winning instructors from WritingWorkshops.com share craft insights, writing advice, and publishing guidance. Founded in 2016, we help writers strengthen their voice, deepen their craft, and find community on the path to publication.
\ud83d\udcd6 debut memoir Girl Gone Wild out now! ✍️ writer NYT, Amazon, Netflix, Cosmo, The Cut \ud83c\udf99️podcaster Private Parts Unknown, The Bleeders, Podcast Bestie
PhD \ud83c\udf41 author of Leafskin (Stillhouse Press) & The Cemetery Cure (dancing girl press) \ud83c\udf41 tree-hugging, teaching, & Writing Toward Nature from Portland, Oregon \ud83c\udf41 rooting creative practices in the magic of ecological entanglements
Shamus Award-winning author of the detective novel Wait There Till You Hear from Me (Crescent City Books 2025). Work in Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2025. Most recent record is The Ones That Brought You Home.
Author of AN ARMSFULL OF BIRDS: A PERSONAL FIELD GUIDE TO LOVE, LOSS, AND COMMITMENT. Fun at parties.
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