The Friend That Went to War and the Friend That Went to Law School
“In Case of Emergency”by John Cotter A woman I didn’t know tapped at her laptop across the Amtrak aisle, Northeast Direct. She had to be running...
A Queer Love Story About Death, Magic, and American Boyhood
Genevieve Hudson has already made a name for themself with their short fiction, which appears in McSweeney’s, Catapult, Joyland, and No Tokens, to name a few,...
NaNoWriMo and Beyond: 9 Writing Challenges for Novelists, Poets and More
Do you have trouble making time to write? Do you wish you had a community to help you work towards your writing goals, including staying on...
What is an MFA, and More Importantly, Should You Get One?
You know you want to write for a living, but you don’t quite feel qualified to go out on your own and try it yet. Or,...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 21, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $3.99Sourdough by Robin Sloan Get This Deal $2.99Beloved by Toni Morrison Get This Deal $1.99The...
Sex and Sincerity
What happens when someone sets out to write fiction that is “100 percent pornographic and 100 percent high art”? According to Garth Greenwell, that was one...
Horace’s How-To
In 476 lines of dactylic hexameter, one of the great Roman poets tells us, if not how he wrote his songs, at any rate how we...
How Swedish Immigration Law Condemned Jews During the Holocaust
“Write soon. We long for your lines, especially because the post from Sweden arrives as it should. Take care of yourself. May God protect you, a...
Megan Stielstra Has the Worst Workshop Horror Story We’ve Ever Heard
In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This...
How Teaching Taught Me More About YA Books
Last year, I was able to enroll in an independent study as part of my MFA in creative writing. A 100-level class called Popular Literature, which...
