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September 27, 2023

Musings & Meanderings What does it mean for a writer to ‘rest?’ Plus, Lang Leav on OTHERS WERE EMERALDS–swooning!-she works on architectural models in her free time, what books Eula Biss turns to, Kathy Fish flash contest, Leah Paulos on book publicity, more
August 31, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: How to prep your manuscript and your beta-readers, plus Una Mannion on writing in long stretches, dreaming about the work, and more in TELL ME WHAT I AM, plus Girls Write Now, the creative life, where to submit, more
July 25, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Shari Lapena, queen of domestic thrillers, says she aims for 1500 words a day, lives in a farmhouse and has recently taken up horseback riding, plus her new book, EVERYONE HERE IS LYING; beta-readers, literary ghost-writing workshops, experimental writing, journal-of-the-month subscriptions, more
July 14, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: What should your final edit look like? Plus Kristy Woodson Harvey talks about being an interior decorator if she wasn’t a writer (I can relate!), summer reads, a podcast, manuscript consultations, conferences, and poetic form
July 5, 2023

Musings & Meaderings: Will Anyone Care? Exploring Writer’s Doubt–Plus, Andrew Michael Hurley’s Starve Acre lands–about grief, the supernatural, English countryside–and it’s going to be a movie, plus writing from photographs, the podcast matchmaker, revamping your writing group, more
June 23, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Can we mother differently and still be good mothers? What about women’s intuition, ‘just knowing,’ envy and regrets? Ashley Audrain talks about that and more in The Whispers; plus visual poetry, micro CNF, more
May 3, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: A lesson in advice from famous authors, writer’s block, Ann Putnam on her novel I WILL LEAVE YOU NEVER, writing and anthropology, Renee Gladman, Gabrielle Bates and visual narrative, stock images, more
March 21, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: A spring re-set for writers, designing interiors of tiny homes–Julie Carrick Dalton on her new book, THE LAST BEEKEEPER, found family, going home; poetry prize judged by Maggie Smith, Corporeal Writing’s Tree Retreat, Courtney Maum, fragments & more
February 5, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Residencies and Workshops, writing anywhere, writing fragmented memoirs, Rebecca Makkai on boarding schools and murders, and so much more
January 25, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Max Seeck speaks about ghosts of one’s past; writing as a calling, sharing your traumatic life stories, bending time, SINKHOLE, ‘Clinics of the Past,’ exciting books of 2023