July/August 2023

The Worldbuilding Initiative, a new public-facing program at Arizona State University, uses ideas and skills from creative writing to encourage participants to take an active role in imagining a more equitable and sustainable future.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including As If She Had a Say by Jennifer Fliss and So to Speak by Terrance Hayes.

After more than two decades, the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize will no longer divide its award into Canadian and international categories, drawing mixed responses from the Canadian literary world.

A look at three new anthologies, including How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Patience, and Skill and Ingenious Pleasures: An Anthology of Punk, Trash, and Camp in Twentieth-Century Poetry.

Recently, con artists have taken to impersonating real editors, agents, or filmmakers from reputable organizations to extort large payments from unsuspecting authors. Literary professionals share advice on spotting and reporting scams.

Guided by a mandate to seek out and amplify underrepresented voices, the Feminist Press publishes twelve to fifteen books a year in multiple genres and holds open submission periods twice annually.

The author of Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It introduces five journals that shaped his work.

Equal parts culinary creation and visual artwork, Ella Hawkins’s intricately decorated biscuits bring her academic and artistic interests to life through the medium of hand-piped royal icing.

The new executive director of Hub City Writers Project shares her vision for HCWP, emphasizing values of regionality, accessibility, and transparency.

Write a poem addressed to your younger self, a story about two characters entangled in a summery whirlwind affair, or an essay built around a road trip. 

The author of The Collected Schizophrenias explains how to take stock of your available resources, assets, and tools in order to develop a robust and sustainable writing practice that acknowledges limitations.