Craft Capsule: Who Cares?
The author of Thin Places urges writers to consider the reader.
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Reaching Through the Screen: The Reality for Adjunct Professors During COVID-19
The pandemic has forced teaching writers and their students to move classes online, but that’s far from the only challenge for adjunct professors at colleges and universities across the country.
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Postcard From the Pandemic: Late at Night in the Heart of Bulgaria
A writer in Sofia, Bulgaria, tracks the coronavirus pandemic through a global network of family and friends.
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Postcard From the Pandemic: Zoom Teaching
An adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco writes about transitioning to online learning after her physical classroom was closed.
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How to Get Paid: Academia
The fifth installment in a continuing series about making money as a writer takes a closer look at the financial realities of academia, from adjunct work to tenure-track professorships.
Practice Imagining Change: A Workshop Manifesto
A writing teacher proposes a new way to approach workshops—without the language of “good” or “bad.”
Piano Lessons: Do Writers Need a Teacher or a Coach?
A former writing teacher explores the best methods for encouraging new talent.
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Diving Through Windows
An exploration of windows as creative tools: how they expand our horizons in the world and in writing, acting as frames for observation and portals to the new worlds we discover in our art.
Swimming to the End: A (Plot) Twist in the River
A precarious attempt to swim across the Hudson River helps a fiction writer explore the pathways of plot—through shifting currents, pain and exhaustion, and an unanticipated twist.
Industrious After Wisdom: Thoughts on the MFA as a Student and Teacher
Writer and teacher Jim Minick recalls his unique experiences as a student in one MFA program while teaching in another, and offers ideas about what an ideal full- and low-residency program might include.
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