Ten Writers on Writing Advice: 2022

Ten writers, including Roger Reeves and Dana Levin, share the best writing advice they’ve ever received.
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Ten writers, including Roger Reeves and Dana Levin, share the best writing advice they’ve ever received.
“Don’t worry, you’ll finish it one day.” —Bushra Rehman, author of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
The accomplished poet shares her thoughts on her new role and plans to raise awareness and appreciation of poetry at a national level.
The author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling argues that writers should be as open to influence during revision as they are at the beginning of a project.
“I’m not a writer, I’m a receiver for something I don’t always understand.” —James Cagney, author of Martian: The Saint of Loneliness
The celebrated Bulgarian bookmaker Stopan calls on his country’s craft traditions to create fantastical artist’s books that are “both in and out of folklore.”
For two weeks in June, more than 15,000 writers from around the world commit to writing a thousand words a day as part of the annual 1000 Words of Summer project.
Writer and visual artist Ben Shattuck turned his journals from walks through New England’s wild spaces into a book of drawings and text titled Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau.
The author of Country of Origin listens to old-school Arabic music to help her render the mood of Egypt at the dawn of the postcolonial period.
Ten writers, including Alex Dimitrov and Kaitlyn Greenidge, share the best writing advice they’ve ever heard.