The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Experiment with myth, reinvent your relationships, and give love a bad name—three prompts to ignite the creative process.
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Experiment with myth, reinvent your relationships, and give love a bad name—three prompts to ignite the creative process.
An accomplished novelist and memoirist offers advice on how to write creative nonfiction with empathy and respect.
Recounting a harrowing trek up Texas’s Enchanted Rock with his wife, a writer details the particularly difficult task of placing yourself in time, and then learning to let time go.
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a French scholar and literary translator discusses the need for translators to be well versed in intersectional knowledge of culture and history.
A former United States poet laureate reflects on his career, and how his experiences of love, partnership, and aging helped shape the curatorial process for his newest collection.
A poet and author talks with five published and noteworthy poets about craft and creative process, and what they do when the going gets tough.
Invent new words, change your perceptions, or get mistaken for strangers--three exercises to flex your creative muscles.
Catapult, a new literary venture that launched in September, is working to provide resources for writers at every stage of their career—from workshops to self-publishing platforms to traditionally published books—in an effort to create an online community that “conceptually mirrors the ecosystem in which writers and creatives exist right now.”
Alaska’s Fiddling Poet, who over the past twenty years has been playing his fiddle and reading poems for audiences across the country, talks about how he has built a career—and a life—out of touring and sharing his music and poetry with others.
What to read in the dog days of summer; libraries on bikes; a children's book that induces hypnosis; and other news.