Reading time: About 2 minutes Isabella Wang says she originally thought one successful publication was the finish line — but now she understands it was only the beginning… Isabella Wang is the author of November, November (Nightwood 2025), Pebble Swing (Nightwood, 2021), a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the chapbook On Forgetting […]
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Looking for some recommended books in time for summer reading? Here’s my semi-annual roundup of books I’ve read this year. I aim to read 52 books every 12 months, and my habit is to post a complete list for you twice a year. Here is a description of the 24 books
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss an article written by Nancy Andreasen…. Have you ever wondered about the relationship between creativity and intelligence (as measured by IQ)?
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Viewing time: 4 mins 55 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast about writing that I started in 2017 and that ran, more or less weekly, until April 2022. This is a republication of issue #217, which addresses the question: how does copyright protect you. The post first ran on Feb. 11/22.
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Stefan Hertmans…. Someone — I don’t remember who — told me about the novel The Convert, by Stefan Hertmans. They must have praised it highly because
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Writer Phebe Ferrer believes that writing poetry is a skill that can be taught and learned. And that anyone can write poetry… The poetry of Phebe Ferrer appears in Qwerty Magazine, Marias at Sampaguitas, and Chinatown Stories, among others. She has edited creative anthologies featuring work by QTBIPOC artists with
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Is your task urgent, important or something for a “to-don’t” list? Make sure you label all of these different items accordingly… Everyone talks about to-do lists. I want to talk about the other kind. I’ve worked with writers for more than 25 years, and one pattern shows up constantly: the
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post on grammar mistakes that even smart people make…. My parents rigorously corrected my grammar when I was a
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Viewing time: 4 mins 1 sec The Write Question is a weekly video podcast about writing that I started in 2017 and that ran, more or less weekly, until April 2022. This is a republication of issue #216, which describes how you can improve your grammar. The post first ran on Feb. 4/22. Transcript:
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors and similes from Megha Majumdar… When Megha Majumdar (pictured above) wrote her debut novel, she was working as an editor at Catapult Books in New York City.
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