Where Big Books Are Born: Tayari Jones on the Ucross Foundation
The author of An American Marriage on the retreat in Sheridan, Wyoming.
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Article Archive: Special Section
Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
The Whole Self: Our Thirteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets
A look at some of the most exciting first books of poetry published in 2017, including WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier and Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar.
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Now Open: Fifty Magazines and Five Small Presses Accepting Submissions With No Reading Fees
50 magazines and 5 small presses accepting submissions with no reading fees.
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2018 MFA Index: A Guide to More Than 200 Programs
A look at 153 full-residency programs and 59 low-residency programs, sorted alphabetically by region.
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We Mean Business: Twelve Agents Who Want to Read Your Work
Literary agents offer honest, unfiltered advice on how to find, approach, and secure the perfect agent for your work.
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Seventy-Eight Agents to Follow on Twitter
Follow these agents on Twitter to gain insight into their tastes, author lists, and what kind of work they’re currently seeking.
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NEA at Risk: The Future of Arts Funding Under Trump
Trump’s 2018 budget outline includes withdrawing funding for the NEA, making him the first president to propose the total elimination of the fifty-year-old federal agency.
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Vote of Confidence: The Life-Changing Support of an NEA Fellowship
Nine recipients of the NEA creative writing fellowship recall the profound impact the grant made on their lives and careers.
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Mirrors and Windows: Finding Diversity at the Color of Children’s Literature Conference
A children’s book author reports from the second annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference, where she finds myriad professional resources and an inspiring community working to publish more children’s books by and about people of color.
Body Snatchers: The Bloody Work of Love, Redemption, and the Writer
A poet and novelist investigates the “bloody” work of rummaging for parts of real-life people in order to create stronger characters in fiction.
Shadows of Words: Our Twelfth Annual Look at Debut Poets
Our annual look at the most exciting first books of poetry published in 2016, including Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong and nine others.
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The Heart-Work: Writing About Trauma as a Subversive Act
Writing about trauma is sometimes called “navel-gazing,” particularly for women writers. An essayist and memoirist confronts this stigma, and calls on writers to explore their personal traumas and truths.
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Writing the Self: Some Thoughts on Words and Woe
A writer recalls his family’s history of depression as well as his own, and explores how writing through the darkest periods can serve as inspiration.
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Agents & Editors: Rob Spillman
Editor Rob Spillman talks Tin House—the magazine, the books, the summer workshop—and the pleasures, perils, and surprises of independent publishing.
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Nine New Lit Mags You Need to Read
The next generation of literary journals—including these nine new publications, all founded within the past two years—is bringing new voices and editorial visions to a traditional form.
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No Slush Piles: Notes From A Literary Journal Editor
The editor of the Georgia Review calls to retire a long-used publishing term, contending that unsolicited submissions are so much more than just “slush.”
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Rock, Paper, Scissors: Agent, Writer, Editor (Reflections From Someone Who’s Been All Three)
A publishing-industry veteran who has worked as an agent, writer, and editor explores how her various experiences have helped her make decisions about both her own career and that of other writers.
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Agents & Editors: The Book Group
Four veteran agents talk about the business of books, the secret to a good pitch, and what authors should do in the lead-up to publication.
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Anatomy of Awards: The Numbers Behind Grants & Awards
As part of a continuing series, we offer a breakdown of the numbers behind our Grants & Awards listings, highlighting the total amount of prize money given each year, the average cost of entry, types of sponsoring organizations, and more.
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A Residency of One’s Own: Navigating the Complicated Path to a Writers Retreat
With some help from Virginia Woolf, an author and Bread Loaf Camargo fellow discusses the complicated decision to leave her family for a month in order to attend a retreat in Cassis, France, and the necessity of finding one’s own space to create.
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Fractures Through Time: Our Eleventh Annual Look at Debut Poets
Our eleventh annual Debut Poets roundup highlights ten of the most exciting and inspiring first books of poetry published in 2015.
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How Do You Translate a Gunshot? Charlie Hebdo, Francophone Culture, and the Translation Conundrum
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.
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Instinct, Energy, and Luck: An Indie-Publisher Roundtable on Literature in Translation
Five editors of independent presses specializing in translation discuss how they find new work from around the world, the challenges they face as publishers, and the future of literary translation.
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The Translation Tango: On Being an Emerging Translator
A young translator recalls attending the 2014 American Literary Translators Association conference, and her discovery of how deeply personal the craft of translation can be.
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What Is Written for You: From Starvation to Salvation in Bulgaria
An American expat details her experience as a translator of Bulgarian literature.
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