https://readtowritestories.com/contact/2020-03-19T16:06:10+00:00weekly0.6https://readtowritestories.com/2020/03/19/new-mexican-books-to-read-while-self-isolated/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/unknown-6.jpegUnknown-6https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/unknown-5.jpegUnknown-5https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/51u8rpoakhl._sx322_bo1204203200_.jpg51U8RPOAKHL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/41peu0t4pll._sx322_bo1204203200_.jpg41peu0t4pLL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/41t8svjtqzl._sx387_bo1204203200_.jpg41t8SvJtqZL._SX387_BO1,204,203,200_https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/unknown-4.jpegUnknown-4https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cuicacalli.black_.pngcuicacalli.black_https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/516wl4lo6l._sx322_bo1204203200_.jpg516+WL4LO6L._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/unknown-3.jpegUnknown-3https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/51ytujtuh-l._sx322_bo1204203200_.jpg51YTUJtUh-L._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_2022-12-17T19:17:34+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/11/09/six-strategies-for-writing-one-great-sentence/2019-03-18T00:21:33+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/10/23/how-to-develop-multiple-pitches-for-the-same-book/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unknown.jpegParker InheritanceThe New York Times Book Review said about Varian Johnson's ninth book, "Powerful.... Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve."2018-10-23T16:34:41+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/09/18/how-to-pitch-a-memoir-without-a-big-fat-narrative-hook/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/51yu1esuwl-_sx324_bo1204203200_.jpgHeartlandSarah Smarsh's memoir about growing up poor in Kansas was recently longlisted for the National Book Award.2020-11-16T23:51:02+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/09/13/the-essential-parts-of-any-book-pitch/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/unknown.jpegTrail of LightningTrail of Lightning is the debut novel from Rebecca Roanhorse.2018-09-13T15:39:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/09/12/whats-next-for-read-to-write-stories/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1431887.jpgAku-AkuAs a kid who liked to lay on his bed, staring out the two-story window at rolling farmland and daydreaming, this book cover was irresistible.2018-09-20T19:53:11+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/08/28/how-to-create-meaningful-spaces-in-stories-2/2018-08-28T18:36:38+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/08/21/how-to-build-a-story-with-logistics-2/2018-08-21T17:44:27+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/08/14/looking-for-practical-exercises-for-your-fiction-writing-class/2018-08-14T17:15:45+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/05/16/how-to-write-a-great-first-sentence/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/9780998518435.jpgBelly UpBelly Up is the debut story collection from Rita Bullwinkel. It was compared to the work of David Lynch by The Paris Review.2018-07-03T15:54:38+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/05/08/write-like-anne-enright-you-should-be-so-lucky/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/logo.pnglogo"Write Like Anne Enright? You Should Be So Lucky" was published at Fiction Writers Review.2018-05-11T22:15:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/05/01/how-to-lift-your-story-beyond-its-outline/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/product_thumbnail-php.jpegHow to Say EverythingTom Hart is the bestselling author of the memoir Rosalie Lightning and founder of the Sequential Arts Workshop. How to Say Everything is his book about the craft of storytelling.2018-05-01T15:20:34+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2018/04/12/dont-pokemon-your-monsters-an-interview-with-robert-ashcroft/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/51h2wzith0l-_sy346_.jpgAnnihilationhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/51oewcrqldl-_sx311_bo1204203200_.jpgThe MegarothkeSeven years after the limitless depths of the Hollow War decimated Earth, leaving only 50,000 humans to fight for survival in Los Angeles, Theo Abrams is sent on a mission to destroy the enigmatic being that initiated this apocalypse, confronting the fact that humanity's yearning to transcend reality caused its downfall.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/robertashcroft.jpgrobertashcroftRobert Ashcroft has worked as a State Department contractor and was recently mobilized to serve abroad with the U.S. Army Reserve. He is trained as a cryptologic linguist (with experience in Korean and Spanish). 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Everetthttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/unknown-3.jpegJam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnetthttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/unknown-1.jpegHow Best to Avoid Dying by Owen Egertonhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/unknown.jpegGutshot by Amelia Gray2018-06-07T10:40:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/blog/2018-01-01T05:06:42+00:00weekly0.6https://readtowritestories.com/featured-writers/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mcgriff258.jpgMcGriff258https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/american-short-fiction-cover-fall-2013-web-2.jpgAmerican-Short-Fiction-Cover-Fall-2013-WEB-2https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/images.jpegimages2017-12-01T19:10:36+00:00weekly0.6https://readtowritestories.com/exercises-and-prompts/2017-12-01T19:10:07+00:00weekly0.6https://readtowritestories.com/2017/11/30/an-interview-with-kelly-davio-3/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/kelly_davio_web-1.jpgkelly_davio_web-1Kelly Davio is the author of the new essay collection It's Just Nerves: Notes on a 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jellyfish, Spineless, has received glowing reviews and been called "thoroughly delightful and entertaining."2017-11-14T16:45:34+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/10/31/how-to-use-mystifying-detail-to-create-conflict/2017-11-12T23:47:44+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/10/27/read-to-write-stories-editor-michael-noll-discusses-his-story-the-dependents/2017-10-27T14:05:57+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/10/12/an-interview-with-erin-pringle/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizerender-12-1.jpgErin PringleErin Pringle is the author of two story collections, most recently The Whole World at Once.2017-10-12T13:16:44+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/exercises-and-prompts/how-to-write-a-scene/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-10-12-17-am.pngScreen Shot 2013-08-09 at 10.12.17 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PM2017-10-12T00:31:28+00:00weekly0.6https://readtowritestories.com/exercises-and-prompts/how-to-structure-a-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-10-31-02-am.pngScreen Shot 2013-08-09 at 10.31.02 AMhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-10-25-53-am.pngScreen Shot 2013-08-09 at 10.25.53 AMhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-10-22-41-am.pngScreen Shot 2013-08-09 at 10.22.41 AMhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-10-19-57-am.pngScreen Shot 2013-08-09 at 10.19.57 AM2017-10-12T00:03:41+00:00weekly0.6https://readtowritestories.com/2017/10/10/how-to-intimately-connect-character-and-setting/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/unknown.jpegThe Whole World at OnceThe stories in Erin Pringle's new collection, The Whole World At Once, reveal "how many strange shapes grief can take and how universal a human experience it is," according to a Kirkus review.2017-10-10T15:30:14+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/12/22/an-interview-with-sam-allingham/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unknown2.jpegSam Allingham2017-10-02T02:17:36+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/03/09/an-interview-with-alexandra-burt/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/b5c21e_e6684f1208b0423c97f7ca9eb744f933mv2.jpgAlexandra Burt2017-10-02T02:07:42+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/09/28/an-interview-with-erika-t-wurth/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/erika-t-wurth-1-868x1024.jpgErika-T.-Wurth2017-09-28T13:30:50+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/09/26/how-to-help-readers-intimately-connect-with-characters/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/buckskin_cover_erikatwurth-194x300.pngbuckskin_cover_erikatwurth-194x300Buckskin Cocaine, the new story collection by Erika T. Wurth, tells the complex, gritty stories of eight characters working in the Native American film industry.2017-09-26T15:08:33+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/09/21/an-interview-with-joe-jimenez/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unknown1.jpegJoe Jiménez2017-09-22T13:28:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/09/19/how-to-use-a-light-touch-in-heavy-moments/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tajaugust2017cto.pngTAJ+August+2017+CTOJoe Jiménez's essay, "Cotton," appears in the most recent issue of The Adroit Journal.2017-09-26T11:09:37+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/09/07/an-interview-with-william-jensen/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img-6687.jpgWilliam Jensen2017-09-13T16:08:14+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/09/05/how-to-bridge-between-scenes-in-a-novel/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unknown.jpegCities of MenWilliam Jensen's debut novel, Cities of Men, tells the story of a boy whose mother disappears, leaving him to search for her with a father who may not want to find her.2017-09-05T17:13:55+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/08/10/an-interview-with-christopher-brown/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/unknown.jpegUnknown2017-08-10T23:30:58+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/08/09/how-to-introduce-and-name-a-cast-of-characters/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/9780062563811_custom-0265499aec1cc838c3f54a243b929cf4ca642265-s300-c85.jpgTropic of KansasChristopher Brown's debut novel, Tropic of Kansas, has been called "a modern dystopian buffet" in a NPR review.2017-08-09T00:43:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/07/27/an-interview-with-owen-egerton-3/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/21oily2ebul-_ux250_.jpgOwen EgertonOwen Egerton is the author of four books, most recently Hollow.2017-07-27T14:41:28+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/07/25/how-to-play-this-i-believe-with-your-characters/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/41l-zwpanvl-_sx331_bo1204203200_.jpgHollowOwen Egerton's novel Hollow, according to a NPR review, contains "the kind of grace not usually seen in accessible modern fiction."2017-07-25T14:13:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/07/20/an-interview-with-nicky-drayden/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/unknown1.jpegNicky Draydenhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/nickydrayden.jpgnickydraydenNicky Drayden is the author of the novel THE PREY OF GODS, named a Wall Street Journal and Barnes & Noble pick for best read of the year so far.2017-07-20T14:36:35+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/07/18/give-readers-a-sneak-peak-at-the-wild-action-to-come/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/unknown.jpegThe Prey of GodsNicky Drayden's debut novel The Prey of Gods is set in a futuristic South Africa where gods, drugs, genetic manipulation, and robots collide in inventive, action-packed ways.2017-07-18T14:02:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/07/11/how-to-make-and-thwart-plans-2/2019-10-23T16:45:55+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/06/28/how-to-improve-narrative-pace-on-a-paragraph-level/2017-07-18T13:07:32+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/06/15/an-interview-with-kaitlyn-greenidge-2/2017-07-22T00:29:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/06/13/how-to-introduce-a-character-with-misdirection-2/2017-06-13T13:48:05+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/06/07/how-to-make-setting-striking-to-all-and-personal-to-one/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/unknown.jpegGypsy Moth SummerJulia Fierro's novel The Gypsy Moth Summer is one of the most anticipated books of the summer.2017-06-07T13:45:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/05/30/how-to-know-whats-worth-showing-2/2017-05-30T14:23:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/05/25/an-interview-with-alexandria-marzano-lesnevich/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/marzanolesnevich_tfoab_photo_by_nina_subin-200x300.jpgMarzanoLesnevich_TFOAB_Photo_by_Nina_Subin-200x3002017-05-25T14:04:18+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/05/23/how-to-give-depth-to-character-descriptions/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/51zsgjk0tgl-_sx328_bo1204203200_.jpgThe Fact of a BodyAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir was named one of Entertainment Weekly's "Books You Have to Read in May."2017-05-25T02:13:43+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/05/18/an-interview-with-joseph-scapellato/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/unknown1.jpegJoseph ScapellatoJoseph Scapellato2017-05-18T14:40:54+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/05/16/how-to-turn-emotions-into-an-existential-threat/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/unknown.jpegBig LonesomeJoseph Scapellato's debut collection, Big Lonesome, has been called "gobsmackingly original prophecy" by Claire Vaye Watkins.2017-05-16T14:10:36+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/05/09/how-to-defy-readers-expectations-with-paragraph-structure/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/unknown.pngTrunkySamuel Peterson's memoir, Trunky (Transgender Junky) tells the story of the author's stay in an all-male drug and alcohol rehab facility in the South.2017-05-10T00:43:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/05/04/an-interview-with-maria-pinto/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/img_9077.jpgMaria Pinto2017-05-04T19:37:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/05/02/how-to-create-desire-with-opportunity/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fh12cover.jpgfh12coverMaria Pinto's story "Love Song of a Femme Fatale on Scholarship" appears in the Winter 2017 issue of Flapperhouse.2017-05-02T14:20:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/04/25/how-to-warm-your-imagination-up-for-metaphor/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/41rk-2dqvol-_sx322_bo1204203200_.jpg41rk-2dqvoL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_Sonya Huber's essay, "The Lava Lamp of Pain" is included in her collection, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System.2017-05-01T13:53:08+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/04/20/an-interview-with-katie-chase-2/2017-04-20T17:14:36+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/04/18/create-tension-by-using-character-stand-ins-2/2017-04-20T17:11:07+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/03/28/how-to-create-people-like-you/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/9780812998542.jpegEverything Belongs to UsYoojin Grace Wuertz's debut novel, Everything Belongs to Us, was called "a Gatsby-esque takedown, full of memorable characters" by the New York Times Book Review.2017-03-28T15:45:40+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/03/21/how-to-create-suspense-in-any-story-2/2017-03-21T14:21:28+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/03/14/how-to-create-a-narrative-arc/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/51gpbv3hgnl-_sx321_bo1204203200_.jpgA Curious LandSusan Muaddi Darrel's story, "The Journey Home," is part of her Grace Paley Award-winning collection A Curious Land.2017-03-14T13:18:15+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/03/07/how-to-add-interiority-in-the-midst-of-suspense/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/51r8ane7z8l-_sx331_bo1204203200_.jpgThe Good DaughterAlexandra Burt's novel The Good Daughter tells the story of a woman uncovering secrets from her childhood that some people don't want her to answer.2017-03-07T15:29:01+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/03/02/an-interview-with-sian-griffiths/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/51y11gqx-al-_sx351_bo1204203200_.jpgRose Metal Guidehttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/51om7n8iwl-_ux250_.jpgSian Griffiths2017-03-02T14:50:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/02/28/how-to-set-up-a-storys-hook/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-28-at-9-11-44-am.pngThe Key Bearer's Parents"The Key Bearer's Parents" by Siân Griffiths appeared online at American Short Fiction.2017-02-28T18:11:09+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/02/27/an-interview-with-paige-schilt/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/unknown2.jpegunknown2017-02-27T16:45:31+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/02/21/how-to-give-your-characters-a-kick-in-the-pants/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/26534545.jpgQueer Rock LovePaige Schilt's memoir, Queer Rock Love, was called a "well-balanced, soul-searching family memoir with broad appeal" by Kirkus Reviews.2017-02-21T14:09:35+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/02/16/an-interview-with-antonio-ruiz-camacho-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/unknown1.jpegunknownThe linked stories in Barefoot Dogs follow the members of a wealthy Mexican family after their patriarch, José Victoriano Arteaga, is kidnapped.2017-02-16T14:03:11+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/02/14/how-to-write-moments-of-high-emotion-2/2017-02-16T22:38:07+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/02/12/an-interview-with-oscar-martinez-2/2017-02-12T12:27:16+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/02/08/awp-and-the-writers-field-guide-to-the-craft-of-fiction/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/unknown.jpegunknown2017-02-08T16:05:13+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/02/07/how-to-end-a-story/2017-02-07T15:09:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/02/02/an-interview-with-shannon-perri/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/shannon-perri.jpgshannon-perri2017-02-25T05:42:32+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/01/31/how-to-give-the-ending-away-without-the-reader-knowing/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unknown1.jpegunknownShannon Perri's story "The Resurrection Act" was published in Joyland.2017-01-31T14:50:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/01/27/an-interview-with-rajia-hassib/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unknown.jpegRajia HassibRajia Hassib was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, and moved to the U.S. at age twenty-three. She earned a degree in architecture from the University of Alexandria and a second bachelor’s and a master’s in English from Marshall University, where she went on to teach creative writing and postcolonial literature. She lives in Charleston, WV, with her husband and two children. In the Language of Miracles is her first novel.2017-01-27T19:44:57+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/01/24/how-to-set-up-and-break-a-routine/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/9780143109150.jpegIn the Language of MiraclesIn the Language of Miracles is Rajia Hassib's first novel. You can read two great essays about being an American Muslim in response to the novel at Books Are Not a Luxury.2018-01-01T04:40:20+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/01/19/an-interview-with-steph-post-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/steph-post-author-photo-1-2.jpgsteph-post-author-photo-1-2Steph Post is the author of the novels Lightwood and A Tree Born Crooked. 2017-01-19T14:33:13+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/01/17/how-to-ground-your-villains/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/lightwood-cover.jpgLightwoodSteph Post's crime novel, Lightwood, tells the story of a released convict who, upon his release, must face his powerful family, a vicious Pentecostal con artist, and a biker gang.2017-09-12T23:30:58+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/01/10/how-to-create-a-rhetorical-touchstone/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/9781568585284.jpgInvisible ManMychal Denzel Smith's memoir, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, is being promoted by Books Are Not a Luxury, a project that aims to turn book-buying into social activism. To learn more, click here.2017-01-10T14:18:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2017/01/03/10-exercises-for-creating-characters/2017-01-03T14:37:36+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/04/28/an-interview-with-kelli-jo-ford/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1457188212987.pngKelli Jo FordKelli Jo Ford is a former Dobie Paisano fellow and recent winner of the Elizabeth George Foundation Emerging Artist Grant.2017-01-03T13:57:06+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/12/20/how-to-not-over-explain-a-characters-behavior/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9780989275996.jpgThe Great American SongbookSam Allingham's collection The Great American Songbook has been called "hilarious and deeply unnerving" by Dan Chaon.2016-12-20T16:43:36+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/12/15/an-interview-with-john-pipkin/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/pipkin.jpgpipkin2016-12-15T14:34:27+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/12/13/how-to-create-suspense-in-any-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unknown1.jpegunknownJohn Pipkin's second novel, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter, "captures our own awe and sense of puniness as we look at the skies," according to a New York Times review.2016-12-13T13:57:08+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/12/08/an-interview-with-octavio-solis/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/octavio-solis-1.jpgoctavio-solis-12016-12-08T14:39:49+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/12/06/how-to-create-tension-between-desire-and-thought/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unknown.jpegHuizacheOctavio Solis' story, "The Want," appears in the most recent issue of Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature.2016-12-06T15:18:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/12/01/an-interview-with-angela-palm/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1455667594831.jpegAngela Palm2016-12-01T14:36:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/11/29/how-to-write-expansively-instead-of-in-a-straight-line/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9781555977467.pngRiverineAngela Palm's memoir "Riverine is a different kind of memoir, one that through a kind of sleight of hand transports readers from the narrative into the world of ideas and back again, with readers scarcely noticing the transitions," according to a Wall Street Journal review.2016-11-29T15:07:51+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/11/27/an-interview-with-kelly-davio-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/headshot-edited.jpegKelly DavioKelly Davio is the author of the essay "Strong Is the New Sexy" and the poetry collection, 2016-11-27T00:10:13+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/11/22/how-to-use-theme-to-create-structure-2/2016-11-22T21:44:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/11/17/an-interview-with-esme-michelle-watkins/2016-11-17T14:35:22+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/11/15/how-to-put-setting-to-work/2016-11-15T14:31:37+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/11/10/an-interview-with-tim-horvath/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unknown1.jpegUnderstoriesTim Horvath's collection, Understories, "revels in wordplay and inventiveness."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/d3c_3503.jpgTim HorvathA reviewer for NPR's Morning Edition called Tim Horvath's story collection, Understories, "My favorite collection of short stories in recent memory."2016-11-10T17:03:44+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/11/03/an-interview-with-hasanthika-sirisena/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hasie3.jpghasie3https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/j_nvtjuc.jpgHasanthika SirisenaHasanthika Sirisena is the author of the story collection, The Other One, which won the 2015 Juniper Prize for Fiction.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unknown.jpegHasanthika SirisenaHasanthika Sirisena's debut story collection, The Other One, won the 2015 Juniper Prize.2016-11-03T12:57:06+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/11/01/how-to-figure-out-what-really-drives-a-character-to-act/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/theotherone.jpgtheotheroneHasanthika Sirisena's collection, The Other One, won the 2015 Juniper Prize for Fiction.2016-11-03T02:33:50+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/10/27/an-interview-with-natashia-deon-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unknown3.jpegNatashia Deon2016-10-27T13:28:18+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/10/25/how-to-use-readers-desire-to-create-suspense/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unknown2.jpegGraceA New York Times review said of Natashia Deón's debut novel Grace, "her style is so visual it plays tricks on the imagination — did I just watch that scene? Or did I read it?"2016-10-25T15:19:08+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/10/23/an-interview-with-rahul-kanakia-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/150507-author-photo.jpg150507-author-photo2016-10-23T12:08:49+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/10/20/an-interview-with-laurie-stone/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/1916073_10154043548443980_8917713464441182355_n.jpgLaurie StoneLaurie Stone https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/laurie-in-pain-quotidian.jpglaurie-in-pain-quotidian2016-10-20T14:43:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/10/18/how-a-characters-past-can-inform-the-present-action/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/my-life-as-an-animal.jpgmy-life-as-an-animalLaurie Stone's new book, My Life as an Animal, is about a woman a woman constantly seduced by strangers, language, the streets in the downtown scene of New York City in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.2016-10-19T14:55:47+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/10/13/an-interview-with-leona-theis/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/leona-churchill_41.jpgleona-churchill_41Leona Theis is the author of two books and the winner of the American Short Fiction contest, judged by Elizabeth McCracken.2016-10-13T13:45:33+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/10/11/how-to-make-a-character-represent-a-place-or-group/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/issue-62-cover-for-web-1-636x1024.jpgissue-62-cover-for-web-1-636x1024Leona Theis' story "How Sylvie Failed to Become a Better Person through Yoga" appears in the latest issue of American Short Fiction, alongside Matt Bell, Smith Henderson, and Porochista Khakpour.2016-10-11T14:14:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/10/06/an-interview-with-christopher-dewan/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unknown.jpegChristopher DeWanChristopher DeWan is the author of Hoopty Time Machines, which Aimee Bender said contains "funny, sharp, playful zingers of stories that reach right out to grab a reader."2016-10-06T14:12:31+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/10/04/make-readers-care-about-a-storys-movie-poster-elements/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hoopty_lower-case_front-196x300.jpgHoopty Time MachinesChristopher DeWan's story "Voodoo" is included in his new collection, Hoopty Time Machines.2016-10-04T14:28:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/06/27/an-interview-with-roxane-gay/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/diversity-200x200.jpegdiversity-200x200Roxane Gay's essay "We Are Many. We Are Everywhere" in The Rumpus includes this list of writers of color. It's long and wonderful, especially if you're a teacher looking for stories/essays that move beyond the usual topics for writers of color. Check it out.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/unknown2.jpegRoxane Gay2016-09-27T20:03:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/09/27/how-to-turn-desire-into-motivation-and-plot/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/unknown2.jpegEnter Title HereRahul Kanakia's novel Enter Title Here has a main character that Barnes and Noble's Teen Blog called "a genuinely unique protagonist: unintentionally funny, often mean, and uncompromising in the lengths she’ll go to get what she wants."2016-09-27T14:53:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/09/22/an-interview-with-garth-greenwell-2/2016-09-22T17:35:50+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/09/20/how-to-describe-a-characters-sense-of-the-world-2/2016-09-20T14:58:01+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/09/13/how-to-swim-in-the-narrative-stream/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ea3db30821f21c3e81584d04ee44408be273e7d61bb3194796f6_640_art-gallery.jpgGreen Mountains ReviewTim Horvath's story, "Fuchsia Maroon Timberwolf," was published in Green Mountains Review.2017-12-13T04:03:27+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/09/08/an-interview-with-hannah-pittard/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/unknown1.jpegHannah PittardHannah Petard's latest novel, Listen to Me, has 2016-09-08T13:30:15+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/09/06/create-an-emotional-backdrop-for-your-characters/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/unknown.jpegListen to MeHannah Petard's novel, Listen to Me, was a New York Times "Editors' Choice" and a Washington Post "Best Summer Thriller."2016-09-06T14:39:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/09/01/an-interview-with-julie-wernersbach/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/julie-240x300.jpgJulie-240x300Julie Wernersbach is the Literary Director for the Texas Book Festival and the author of two books of nonfiction, including the forthcoming Swi2016-09-01T14:16:04+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/08/30/how-to-introduce-conflict-in-multiple-pov-stories/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/00001-mugcyuvves05f45r1h17mq9947jn19p1hf3rptgnw8.jpgArcadia 10.2Julie Wernersbach's story, "Happiness," appears in the latest issue of Arcadia.2016-08-30T14:30:51+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/08/23/how-to-use-conflict-to-give-your-novel-a-sense-of-direction/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/unknown1.jpegWays to DisappearIdea Novey's debut novel, Ways to Disappear, has been called a "tour de force" and "seared to perfection" by reviewers.2016-08-23T15:44:42+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/08/18/an-interview-with-aliette-de-bodard-2/2016-08-18T15:04:06+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/08/16/how-to-write-ideas-into-fiction-2/2016-08-22T01:07:04+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/08/12/an-interview-with-tristan-ahtone-2/2016-08-12T16:27:09+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/08/09/how-to-describe-a-character-from-the-perspective-of-others-2/2016-08-16T19:07:20+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/08/04/an-interview-with-amy-gentry/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/61awwsckypl-_ux250_.jpgAmy GentryAmy Gentry's debut novel, Good as Gone is one of the most anticipated books of the summer.2016-08-04T15:16:31+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/08/02/how-to-turn-information-into-scene/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/unknown.jpegGood as GoneAmy Gentry's debut novel GOOD AS GONE "draws our attention to the self that’s forged from sheer survival, and from the clarifying call to vengeance," according to a New York Times review.2016-08-02T15:15:55+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/07/28/an-interview-with-adam-soto/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/logo-v5.pngThis American LifeIra Glass read an excerpt from Stuart Dybek's story "We Didn't" on This American Life.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/unnamed.jpgAdam SotoAdam Soto is the author of "The Box," which appears in the latest issue of Glimmer Train.2016-07-28T15:43:33+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/07/26/how-to-use-a-characters-emotions-to-hook-the-reader/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/unknown.jpegGlimmer Train #96Adam Soto's story, "The Box," appears in the most recent issue of Glimmer Train.2016-07-26T15:04:57+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/07/21/an-interview-with-natalia-sylvester-2/2016-07-21T12:40:38+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/07/19/how-to-set-up-the-second-half-of-your-novel-2/2016-07-19T12:21:57+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/07/16/an-interview-with-jeffrey-renard-allen-2/2016-07-16T11:09:22+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/07/12/how-to-stretch-present-action-2/2016-07-12T14:21:01+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/07/07/an-interview-with-sequoia-nagamatsu-2/2016-07-07T14:23:53+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/07/05/how-to-make-the-familiar-seem-strange-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/9781625579447-250x386.jpgWhere We GoSequoia Nagamatsu's story, "Placentophagy," was published at Tin House and is included in his collection, Where We Go When All We Were is Gone.2016-07-05T14:50:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/30/an-interview-with-robert-boswell/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/unknown2.jpegRobert BoswellRobert Boswell has published 12 books, 2 plays, and more than 70 stories and essays and won more awards than can fit beneath a headshot.2016-06-30T12:46:09+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/28/how-to-set-up-dialogue-with-declarative-statements/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/harpers-1410-400x400.pngHarpers-1410-400x400Robert Boswell's story, "The House on Bony Lake," appeared in the October 2014 issue of Harper's Magazine.2016-06-28T11:02:02+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/24/an-interview-with-d-watkins-2/2016-06-24T02:04:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/21/how-to-defy-readers-expectations-for-characters/2016-08-22T01:06:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/16/an-interview-with-callie-collins/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/collins.jpgCallie CollinsCallie Collins is the co-editor of A Strange Object and, starting in the fall, a MFA student at the University of Michigan.2016-06-16T13:47:31+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/14/how-to-spark-the-imagination/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/250px-alligator_gar.jpg250px-Alligator_garOnce you've got your butt in the chair, how do you get your head in the right place? An exercise on sparking the imagination from Callie Collins' story, "Tropical Storm Bill Washes Up Alligator Gar in Corpus Christi, 2015."2016-06-14T13:48:24+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/09/an-interview-with-sean-ennis-2/2016-06-09T13:08:13+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/07/how-to-use-plot-spoilers-in-a-story-2/2016-06-07T12:05:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/02/an-interview-with-john-jodzio/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/unknown1.jpegJohn JodzioA New York Times review said about Knockout, "John Jodzio’s entire collection is tremendously funny and well written, every story inventive and a pleasure to read.”2016-06-06T13:15:24+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/06/01/how-to-develop-characters-using-degrees-of-intensity/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/unknown.jpegKnockoutJohn Jodzio is the author of the new collection Knockout, which includes the story "Lily and Annabelle." 2016-06-01T14:14:18+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/05/26/an-interview-with-karan-bajaj/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/unknown4.jpegKaran BajajKaran Bajaj is a bestselling novelist in India. The Yoga of Max's Discontent is his most recent book.2016-05-26T14:57:41+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/05/25/how-to-hook-a-reader-with-cool-stuff/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/unknown3.jpegYoga of Max's DiscontentThe Yoga of Max's Discontent is the latest novel by Karan Bajaj.2016-05-25T01:11:54+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/05/20/an-interview-with-alexander-chee/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1453851962062.jpegAlexander CheeAlexander Chee has been called "incomparable" by Junot Diaz and is the author of the much-anticipated novel, The Queen of the Night.2016-05-20T12:56:28+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/05/17/develop-character-with-plot/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/unknown2.jpegThe Queen of the NightAlexander Chee's novel THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT is a national bestseller a review in Vogue called "brilliantly extravagant in its twists and turns and its wide-ranging cast of characters."2016-05-17T14:15:57+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/02/04/how-to-control-narrative-pace-with-sentence-structure/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/unknown2.jpegCartwheelJennifer Dubois' novel Cartwheel has been called...2024-07-27T14:00:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/02/06/an-interview-with-jennifer-dubois/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/partial-history-lost-causes.jpgpartial-history-lost-causesIn her debut novel, Dubois matches a former Russian chess champion intent on challenging Vladimir Putin's political power with a young American college lecturer who, fearing that she has inherited the genes for Huntington's Disease, travels to Russia to find out answers about her dead father.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jennifer_dubois.jpgjennifer_duboishttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/auth.gifJennifer DuboisJennifer Dubois' latest novel, Cartwheel, was included on multiple best-of-the-year lists in 2013. Photo credit: Ilana Panich-Linsman2016-05-12T19:56:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/05/12/an-interview-with-katie-chase/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1453066098804.jpegKatie ChaseKatie Chase is the author of Man and Wife, a story collection that Edan Lepucki calls "comic and horrific."2016-05-12T13:56:04+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/05/10/create-tension-by-using-character-stand-ins/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/unknown1.jpegMan and WifeMan and Wife is the debut story collection by Katie Chase. The title story appeared in Missouri Review and Best American Short Stories 2008.2016-05-10T14:50:41+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/05/05/an-interview-with-phaedra-patrick/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/a1e7hmdz8bl-_ux250_.jpgPhaedra PatrickPhaedra Patrick is the author of the novel The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper.2016-05-05T14:28:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/04/14/an-interview-with-manuel-gonzales/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/239843.jpegManuel GonzalesManuel Gonzales is the author of The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, which the New York Times called "rollicking good fun on the surface, action-packed and shiny in all the right places" and also "thoughtful and well considered."2016-05-04T14:51:06+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/05/03/how-to-set-up-a-happy-ending/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/unknown.jpegArthur PepperThe Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper is Phaedra Patrick's first novel, and it's been called "tender, insightful, and surprising."2016-05-03T14:18:55+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/04/26/how-to-avoid-the-mirror-in-character-descriptions/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/unknown.pngVQRKelli Jo Ford's story, "You Will Miss Me When I Burn," was published in Virginia Quarterly Review.2016-04-26T14:01:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/04/21/an-interview-with-melissa-stephenson/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/unknown1.jpegUnknownHaruki Murakami wrote about the connections between running and writing in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/54mnubx9rhjq5qjg.jpgMelissa StephensonMelissa Stephenson wrote about running and single-parenting in her Washington Post essay, "As a mom, I couldn’t afford to fall apart after my divorce. Then running saved me."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/54mnubx9rhjq5qjg_big_thumb.jpg54MNUBX9rHJq5Qjg_big_thumb2016-07-10T16:27:35+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/04/19/how-to-use-showing-and-telling-in-a-personal-essay/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/istock_000068799301_medium1459195270.jpgiStock_000068799301_Medium1459195270In this essay at the Washington Post, Melissa Stephenson tells the story of how running helped her cope with being a single mom2016-04-19T14:19:42+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/04/18/an-interview-with-kaitlyn-greenidge/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/unknown.jpegGreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge is the author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman, has been called "auspicious," "complex," and "caustically funny."2016-04-18T14:40:52+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/06/11/how-to-reinvent-a-stock-character/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/c99a9ad3a5b3f26e5ed72ce9c8d8b8b7.jpgHarrison LightM. John Harrison's Light is X.2016-04-13T15:21:14+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/04/12/how-to-build-character-within-action-scenes/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/9781594632419.jpegRegional OfficeManuel Gonzales' novel The Regional Office Is Under Attack! is the much-anticipated follow-up to his terrific story collection, The Miniature Wife.2016-04-12T14:02:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/04/05/how-to-introduce-a-character-with-misdirection/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/9781616204679.jpgCharlie FreemanKaitlyn Greenidge's highly anticipated debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, tells the story of an African-American family who moves to a research institute to live with a chimpanzee.2016-04-05T13:59:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/04/02/an-interview-with-keith-lee-morris/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unknown1.jpegKeith Lee MorrisKeith Lee Morris' novel Travelers Rest culminates in "an operatic grand finale," according to a reviewer for England's The Independent.2016-04-02T19:07:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/02/18/an-interview-with-selin-gokcesu/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bsg.jpgbsgSelin Gökçesu's essay "Under the Aegean Moon" appeared in the Tin House blog "Open Bar."2016-03-31T15:17:50+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/02/16/how-to-develop-a-character-amid-large-scale-conflict/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/unknown1.jpegTin HouseSelin Gökçesu wrote about her honeymoon in Turkey and the Syrian refugee crisis in her essay, "Under the Aegean Moon." The essay was published at the Tin House blog "The Open Bar."2016-03-31T15:17:34+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/03/31/an-interview-with-daniel-jose-older-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/9780425275986.jpegHalf-Resurrection BluesDaniel José Older's urban fantasy novel Half-Resurrection Blues has been called "Noir for the Now."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/51u0iyew9dl-_sx320_bo1204203200_.jpgCulture and ImperialismEdward W. Said's book Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unknown5.jpegAll-American BoysAll-American Boys tells the story of an act of police violence from the view of the victim and the police officer.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unknown4.jpegDaniel Jose OlderDaniel José Older is the author of the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, the Young Adult novel Shadowshaper. His essay, "Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, and Publishing," addresses the institutional bias present in the publishing industry.2017-06-12T21:42:39+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/03/29/how-to-become-a-better-reader/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-24-at-9-27-55-am.pngDiversity researchResults from a study on diversity within the publishing industry, byhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/litpub21cen-texture.jpglitpub21cen-textureDaniel José Older wrote about the need to transform publishing his essay, "Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, Publishing."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/enhanced-10402-1397773255-1.jpgenhanced-10402-1397773255-1https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-24-at-9-01-27-am.pngWe Need Diverse BooksDaniel José Older wrote about the need to transform publishing his essay, "Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, Publishing."2016-03-30T13:19:13+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/03/24/an-interview-with-karen-ranney/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unknown3.jpegKaren RanneyKaren Ranney is the bestselling author romance novels. Her most recent book is An American in Scotland.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/9780062337528.jpg9780062337528Karen Ranney's novel An American in Scotland follows an American woman who sails through the Union blockade of Charleston in order to pursue a sale and romance in Scotland.2016-03-25T13:59:07+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/04/23/an-interview-with-bae-suah/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/unknown1.jpegBae Suah2016-03-23T00:58:10+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/03/22/how-to-create-a-window-of-opportunity/2016-03-22T14:07:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/03/17/an-interview-with-chinelo-okparanta/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unknown-1.jpegChinelo OkparantaChinelo Okparanta is the author of the novel Under the Udala Trees and the story collection Happiness, Like Water2016-03-17T13:41:49+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/03/15/how-to-manipulate-chronology-to-build-character/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unknown2.jpegUnder the Udala TreesChinelo Okparanta's novel Under the Udala Trees tells the story of a young girl displaced by the Nigerian Civil War and the love affair that she begins.2016-03-15T13:02:07+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/03/08/how-to-skip-over-implausibility/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/d86314fc91ff5e6c5902d6db360131c2.jpgTravelers RestKeith Lee Morris builds upon the long tradition of haunted hotels with his spooky, unsettling novel Travelers Rest.2016-03-08T15:05:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/03/03/an-interview-with-daniel-oppenheimer/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/508400298-204.jpg508400298-204Daniel Oppenheimer's essay, "What Donald Trump Learned from Ronald Reagan's Flip-Flops," appeared in the Washington Post.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1439934685921.jpegDan OppenheimerDaniel Oppenheimer's book Exit Right has received glowing reviews, like this one from the Washington Post: "This book proves so satisfying precisely because it leaves you wanting much more."2016-03-03T15:31:28+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/03/01/how-to-reveal-tension-indirectly/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unknown.jpegExit RightDaniel Oppenheimer's political biography, Exit Right, tells the story of six men who converted from the American left to American Conservatism—with an eye toward what the history and experience that set the stage for their conversions.2016-03-03T14:54:37+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/02/25/an-interview-with-mo-daviau/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/unknown-11.jpegMo DaviauMo Daviau's novel Every Anxious Wave has been called a "bittersweet, century-hopping odyssey of love, laced with weird science, music geekery, and heart-wrenching laughs" by NPR.2016-02-25T15:38:31+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/02/23/how-to-explain-away-implausibility/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/unknown3.jpegEvery Anxious WaveMo Daviau's novel Every Anxious Wave follows a bar owner who time travels to historical indie rock concerts. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/unknown2.jpegUnknown2016-02-23T15:50:13+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/02/09/how-to-reveal-character-interiority-through-action/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/services.jpegservicesJustin Torres' novel We the Animals has been called "the kind of book that makes a career" in a review in Esquire.2016-02-09T15:47:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/02/04/an-interview-with-garth-greenwell/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/unknown-1.jpegGarth GreenwellGarth Greenwell is the author of the novel What Belongs to You, a novel of "originality and power" according to the New Yorker's James Wood.2016-02-04T15:29:35+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/02/02/how-to-describe-a-characters-sense-of-the-world/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/unknown.jpegWhat Belongs to YouGarth Greenwell's novel What Belongs to You tells the story of a young American man teaching in Bulgaria and his complicated relationship with Mitko, whom he meets in a public restroom.2016-02-02T17:22:05+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/01/28/an-interview-with-debra-monroe/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/debra_monroe_2009.pngdebra_monroe_2009Debra Monroe's memoir, My Unsentimental Education, tells the story of how she left a small town in Wisconsin to pursue a degree, and, she thought, a life as a Midwestern housewife.2016-01-28T15:52:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/01/26/how-to-challenge-a-readers-sense-of-reality/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/unknown3.jpegMaking a MurdererThe hit documentary series, Making a Murderer, tells the story of Steven Avery, who was wrongly convicted of rape and then accused of murder.2016-01-26T18:59:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/01/21/an-interview-with-tom-hart/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/8553781.jpgTom Hart2016-01-21T16:00:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/01/19/how-to-give-characters-a-frame-of-reference/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/unknown2.jpegRosalie LightningRosalie Lightning is cartoonist Tom Hart's graphic memoir about the death of his infant daughter Rosalie and the struggle to understand how to live in her absence.2016-01-20T08:02:27+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/01/14/an-interview-with-eli-saslow/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/unknown1.jpegSaslowhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/imrs-php.jpegimrs.phpEli Saslow is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the Washington Post.2016-01-14T15:43:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/01/12/how-to-add-physical-description-to-dialogue/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/snyder_hall_umpqua_community_college.jpgSnyder_Hall_Umpqua_Community_CollegePulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eli Saslow wrote a lengthy feature on Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, one of the survivor's of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.2016-01-12T13:40:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/01/07/an-interview-with-tristan-ahtone/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/unknown.jpegUnknown2016-01-07T15:54:00+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2016/01/05/how-to-describe-a-character-from-the-perspective-of-others/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bus_rosalinda2.jpgbus_rosalinda2Tristan Ahtone rode Greyhound buses around America and wrote about it for Al Jazeera America. 2016-01-05T14:40:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/12/31/an-interview-with-mario-alberto-zambrano/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/unknown-12.jpegNosostros los pobresIn this 1948 film, A poor carpenter (Pedro Infante) is framed for the murder of his employer and sent to prison.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/img_2438-200x300.pngMario Alberto Zambrano2015-12-31T15:34:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/12/30/how-to-create-structure-with-images/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/unknown2.jpegLoteriaMario Alberto Zambrano's novel Lotería uses a deck of cards to chart the story of a young girl's family and its demise.2015-12-30T14:39:40+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/12/22/12-exercises-inspired-by-the-best-writing-from-2015/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/unknown-11.jpegUnknown-12015-12-23T02:18:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/04/14/how-to-use-an-omniscient-narrator/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/9781555976422.pngOn Sal Mal LaneRu Freeman's novel On Sal Mal Lane "soars [with] its sensory beauty, language and humor," according to a New York Times review.2015-12-26T12:28:03+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/01/15/an-interview-with-kseniya-melnik/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1303222932053.jpegSelling Your First SoulIn "Selling Your First Soul," an essay in Granta, writes about returning to Russia to visit her sick grandmother.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/9152807.jpgKseniya Melnik2015-12-26T12:21:32+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/05/06/how-to-take-your-characters-for-a-drive/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/unknown.jpegAbove the East China SeaSarah Bird is the best-selling author of The Yokota Officers Club and, now, the much anticipated Above the East China Sea.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/above-the-east-china-sea-206.jpgAbove-the-East-China-Sea-206Sarah Bird is the best-selling author of The Yokota Officers Club and, now, the much anticipated Above the East China Sea.2015-12-21T14:03:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/12/15/how-to-create-a-literary-touchstone/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen_shot_20150827_at_10-53-03_am-crop-promo-xlarge2-53-03_am.pngscreen_shot_20150827_at_10.53.03_am.png.CROP.promo-xlarge2.53.03_amIn his essay, "The Rebirth of Black Rage," Mychal Denzel Smith uses Kanye West's statement, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," as a touchstone for discussing black political rhetoric.2015-12-19T22:55:08+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/04/21/how-to-capture-an-entire-society/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/unknown.jpegUnknownNowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah tells the story of a young woman trying to make sense of her life and world in South Korea.2016-01-15T04:08:16+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/02/an-interview-with-kelly-luce/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/aso_logo_web.pngASO_logo_webA Strange Object is an independent press in Austin that publishes books that take risks, buck form, and build warm dwellings in dark places.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/kelly-luce.jpgkelly luce2015-12-18T01:54:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/12/10/an-interview-with-chaitali-sen/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/pathless-sky-cover-big-edit.jpgpathless-sky-cover-big-editChaitali Sen wrote about her decision to invent a country for her novel at The Asian American Writers' Workshop.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dsc_1328.jpgChaitali Sen2015-12-26T14:09:10+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/12/08/how-to-give-a-character-a-job/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/9781609452919.jpegThe Pathless SkyChaitali Sen's The Pathless Sky updates the star-crossed lovers tale with a novel set amid political turmoil and the possibility that geography and politics might still be overcome.2015-12-26T06:08:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/12/03/an-interview-with-ru-freeman-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/rubio.jpgrubioRu Freeman is a Sri Lankan born writer and activist whose latest book is the anthology, Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine.2015-12-03T19:25:10+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/12/01/how-to-escape-the-trap-of-ideological-language/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen-shot-2015-12-01-at-9-38-51-am.pngOn PanderingClaire Vaye Watkins' essay, "On Pandering," is based on a lecture she gave during the 2015 Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/unknown-1.jpegNaomi Shihab NyeNaomi Shihab Nye's poem, "Before I Was a Gazan," can be read in full at the Academy of American Poets website.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/unknown.jpegExtraordinary RenditionExtraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine, edited by Ru Freeman, follows a vision of art stated, here, by Edwidge Danticat: "It is both the artist’s burden and duty to witness what is going on in the world."2015-12-01T16:29:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/11/17/how-to-portray-a-relationship-with-one-well-chosen-detail/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/header_huizache_logo_large.pngheader_huizache_logo_largeOne of the last pieces that Michelle Serros ever published appeared in Huizache, a journal dedicated to Latino Literature.2015-11-30T02:22:09+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/11/28/an-interview-with-megan-kruse/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/kruse-thumb_500_500_80-300x300.jpgkruse-thumb_500_500_80-300x3002015-11-28T17:20:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/11/24/how-to-put-a-mind-into-conversation-with-itself/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cover_callmehome-185x300.jpgCover_CallMeHome-185x300Megan Kruse's novel Call Me Home left the writer Dan Chaon "astonished by her talent."2015-11-24T22:10:10+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/11/19/an-interview-with-the-editors-of-huizache/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/unknown1.jpegHuizache #2The second issues of Huizache included Serros' essay, plus a poem by Lorna Dee Cervantes and an essay about smuggling books into Tuscon, AZ, by Tony Diaz.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ph_2015-05-12_hispanics-language-proficiency-01.pngPH_2015-05-12_hispanics-language-proficiency-01Rates of English usage among Hispanics, according to Pew Research Center.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/one-day-as-a-tigre.jpgOne Day as a TigreRage Against the Machine's Zach de la Rocha appeared onstage with Los Tigres del Norte on their song "Somos Más Americanos" for a MTV Unplugged special.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/aj_headshot.jpgAJ_headshot2015-11-19T15:35:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/03/28/an-interview-with-brian-evenson/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bevenson.jpgbevenson2015-11-11T19:39:06+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/11/10/how-to-keep-your-nanowrimo-novel-alive/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/unknown.jpegHomer HickamHomer Hickam is the author of numerous books, including the memoir Rocket Boys, which was adapted into the film October Sky. 2015-11-10T15:03:52+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/11/03/how-to-escape-from-a-plot/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/unknown4.jpegUnknownHomer Hickam is the author of the bestselling memoir Rocket Boys, which became the film October Sky. The novel Carrying Albert Home is a prequel to that memoir. 2015-12-26T12:22:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/10/29/an-interview-with-caille-millner/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/unknown3.jpegCaille Millner2015-10-29T15:19:50+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/10/27/how-to-create-moments-of-clashing-subtext/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/unknown-2.jpegJoylandCaille Millner's story, "The Surrogate," appeared in Joyland Magazine.2015-10-29T03:35:27+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/10/22/an-interview-with-lincoln-michel/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/unknown-1.jpegGigantic WorldsGigantic Worlds is an anthology of 51 science flash fiction stories from writers as varied as Jonathan Lethem, Charles Yu, and Kelly Luce.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/unknown2.jpegLincoln Michel2015-10-22T15:33:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/10/20/how-to-merge-literary-and-genre-stories/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/unknown1.jpegUpright BeastsLincoln Michel's collection Upright Beasts is a genre-bending debut (O Magazine), full of monstrous surprises and eerie silences (Vanity Fair).2015-10-20T15:00:50+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/10/13/how-to-create-depth-of-time-in-dialogue/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/51m52v56kyl-_sx319_bo1204203200_.jpg51m52V56KYL._SX319_BO1,204,203,200_A Chicago Tribune review called Debra Monroe's memoir, My Unsentimental Education, a genuine look at how "sometimes you go sideways or down before you go up."2015-10-13T14:19:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/10/06/how-to-know-whats-worth-showing/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/unknown.jpegBalmDolen Perkins-Valdez's New York Times bestselling novel Balm follows three African-American characters who have moved to Chicago after the Civil War. 2015-10-12T13:58:31+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/10/01/an-interview-with-rene-s-perez-ii-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/authors125.jpgauthors125Rene S. Perez II won the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award for his story collection, Along These Highways. His latest book is the novel Seeing Off the Johns.2015-10-01T14:38:22+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/09/29/how-to-jump-out-of-scene-into-backstory/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/9781941026120.jpgSeeing Off the JohnsSeeing Off the Johns, the debut novel from Rene Perez II, is a BookPage Teen Top Pick and has been called "a searing, mature novel."2015-09-29T15:39:35+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/09/24/an-interview-with-matthew-salesses-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/unknown.jpegUnknownMatthew Salesses is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of Houston and, already, the author of three books, most recently the novel The Hundred Year Flood.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/81ogrcwv-xl-_sx80_.jpg81OgrCwV-xL._SX80_Matthew Salesses is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of Houston and, already, the author of three books, most recently the novel The Hundred Year Flood.2015-09-24T14:57:53+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/09/22/how-to-fast-forward-to-the-real-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/51htxer-rdl-_sx331_bo1204203200_.jpgThe Hundred-Year FloodMatthew Saleses' novel The Hundred-Year Flood has been called "epic and devastating and full of natural majesty." It follows a young man to Prague as he struggles to understand his identity and how it fits into the world.2015-09-23T18:31:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/09/17/an-interview-with-steve-adams/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/adams_final-300x300.jpgadams_final-300x3002015-09-17T13:57:22+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/09/15/how-to-direct-the-readers-gaze/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/crosscurrents_hunting.jpgcrosscurrents_huntingSteve Adams' essay, "Waiting Till the Wait Is Over," is a meditation on hunting and writing and the surprising connection between the two.2015-09-15T17:24:36+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/09/10/an-interview-with-j-ryan-stradal/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1421148455802.png14211484558022015-09-10T14:22:45+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/09/08/how-to-write-descriptions-that-cut-both-ways/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/9780525429142.jpeg9780525429142J. Ryan Stradal's novel Kitchens of the Great Midwest was called, by The New York Times, an "impressive feat of narrative jujitsu" and "a terrific reminder of what can be wrested from suffering and struggle" by Jane Smiley.2015-09-08T14:40:52+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/11/an-interview-with-matthew-salesses/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/screen-shot-2013-07-08-at-2-25-19-pm.pngI'm Not Saying, I'm Just SayingHere's a cool book trailer video for I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ms.jpgmsis the author of I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying (2013), The Last Repatriate, and two chapbooks, Our Island of Epidemics and We Will Take What We Can Get. He was adopted from Korea at age two, returned to Korea, married a Korean woman, and writes a column about his wife and baby for The Good Men Project. He also serves as the Project’s Fiction Editor. Photo Credit Stephanie Mitchell2015-09-04T18:18:03+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/08/11/how-to-raise-the-level-of-analysis-in-an-essay/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unknown.jpegUnknownSarah Smarsh's essay, "Poverty, Pride, and Prejudice in Kansas," about legislation that would limit the amount that welfare recipients can withdraw from ATM machines appeared in The New Yorker.2015-09-02T02:04:13+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/09/01/how-to-create-structure-with-teasers/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unknown5.jpegCutting TeethJulia Fierro's debut novel, Cutting Teeth, was called "comically energetic" by The New Yorker.2015-09-01T14:12:43+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/08/27/an-interview-with-will-boast/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/4039182.jpg40391822015-08-27T14:19:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/08/25/how-to-frame-chronology/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unknown4.jpegUnknownWill Boast's memoir Epilogue describes a family tragedy and revelation the force Boast to reconsider his definition of family.2015-08-25T13:28:13+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/04/10/an-interview-with-jaime-netzer/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/jaime-and-richard_111-200x300.jpgjaime-and-richard_111-200x3002015-08-23T17:14:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/05/04/an-interview-with-ru-freeman/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/unknown.pngUnknownFreeman's website contains what is, perhaps, the most comprehensive list in existence of Sri Lankan writers. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/rubio.jpgRu Freeman2015-08-23T17:04:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/05/28/an-interview-with-david-james-poissant/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/d004d2_50a7f3b532b84e8ea0834eb85a4e7e58-jpg_srb_p_367_582_75_22_0-50_1-20_0-00_jpg_srb.jpegHeaven of AnimalsOne Story editor Hannah Tinti called The Heaven of Animals "Wild as two men wrestling an alligator, tender as a father stretching out on the floor next to his sleeping son."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/d004d2_18d4d73a052ade47dfe4d99fd6749c0b-jpg_srz_p_476_451_75_22_0-50_1-20_0-00_jpg_srz.jpegPoissant2015-08-23T16:54:30+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/08/20/an-interview-with-andrew-malan-milward/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unknown-1.jpegUnknown-12015-08-20T14:47:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/08/13/an-interview-with-sarah-smarsh/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unknown2.jpegUnknownSarah Smarsh wrote about the prevalence of poor dental care in impoverished families and the shame it brings in middle-class society.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unknown1.jpegUnknown2015-08-18T13:04:11+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/08/18/how-to-give-a-storys-plot-enough-fuel-to-finish/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unknown3.jpegUnknownAndrew Malan Milward's collection, I Was a Revolutionary, takes a fresh look at the complex history of Bleeding Kansas and its role leading up to the Civil War and the aftershocks that are still present today.2015-08-18T12:33:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/08/06/an-interview-with-justin-taylor/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/images1.jpegimages2015-08-06T12:07:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/08/04/how-to-dig-deeper-into-a-scene/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150518_r26506-320.jpg150518_r26506-320Justin Taylor's story, "So You're Just What, Gone?" appeared in The New Yorker.2015-08-04T12:19:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/30/an-interview-with-herpreet-singh/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/unknown-1.jpegUnknown-12015-07-30T14:04:04+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/28/how-to-write-multifaceted-characters/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/unknown1.jpegUnknownHerpreet Singh's essay, "Choking Out the Natives," appeared in The Bitter Southerner and tells the story of a mixed marriage in Louisiana.2015-07-28T16:39:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/23/an-interview-with-sarah-layden/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/5698766.jpg5698766In Trip Through Your Wires, a new clue causes a woman to retrace the mystery of her boyfriend's death.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/8769008.jpg87690082015-07-23T13:59:52+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/21/how-to-withhold-crucial-plot-information/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/unknown.jpegUnknownSarah Layden's story, "Bad Enough With Genghis Khan," appeared in Boston Review.2015-07-21T16:15:33+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/12/26/an-interview-with-jeffrey-renard-allen/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/new-jeffallen1-author-photo-cropped.jpgNew JeffAllen1 Author Photo cropped2015-07-16T17:53:42+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/12/16/how-to-stretch-present-action/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/song-of-the-shank.jpgSong-of-the-ShankThe New York Times called Jeffrey Renard Allen's novel Song of the Shank, "the kind of imaginative work only a prodigiously gifted risk-taker could produce."2015-07-16T17:53:11+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/16/an-interview-with-sequoia-nagamatsu/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/4bede5189876f72cbd97c18e16a1cb8d.jpg4bede5189876f72cbd97c18e16a1cb8dWhere We Go When All We Were Is Gone is "an exhilarating debut that serves up every guilty-pleasure pop-culture satisfaction one could hope for while simultaneously reframing and refashioning those familiar low-art joys into something singular, unanticipated, and entirely original," according to Pinckney Benedict.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sequoia-2.jpgSequoia 22015-07-16T12:49:47+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/14/how-to-make-the-familiar-seem-strange/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-07-13-at-1-05-46-pm.pngSequoia NagamatsuSequoia Nagamatsu's story, "Placentophagy," was published at Tin House and will be included in his forthcoming collection, Where We Go When All We Were is Gone.2015-07-14T16:08:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/07/how-to-write-sentences-that-offer-unexpected-views/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tumblr_inline_n20lztgdvh1qeww90.jpgtumblr_inline_n20lztGdVh1qeww90Natashia Deón is a Los Angeles writer who directs the Dirty Laundry Lit reading series. Her Facebook posts about her son were republished in Rockwell's Camera Phone.2015-07-13T18:08:44+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/09/an-interview-with-natashia-deon/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/18e140_f21ece6e9f2abfecc153d2e9ab48f759-jpg_srz_p_470_190_75_22_0-50_1-20_0-00_jpg_srz.jpeg18e140_f21ece6e9f2abfecc153d2e9ab48f759.jpg_srz_p_470_190_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srzThe Dirty Laundry Lit reading series was called a "raucous, all-inclusive party" by L.A. Weekly.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/images.jpegimages2015-07-09T18:47:27+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/02/an-interview-with-christine-grimes/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/73183_10200829980415128_131667748_n.jpg73183_10200829980415128_131667748_n2015-07-02T13:09:31+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/07/01/how-to-structure-plot-around-lack-of-change/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/unknown5.jpegUnknownChristine Grimes' story, The Window, appeared in 2 Bridges Review, Vol. 4. 2015-07-01T18:50:54+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/06/25/an-interview-with-katherine-fawcett/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/unknown4.jpegUnknownDaydreams for Angels is the first story collection from Heather O'Neill, the bestselling author of Lullabies for Little Criminals.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/studio-shot-731x1024.jpgstudio-shot-731x10242015-06-25T14:14:21+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/06/23/how-to-switch-gears-and-increase-tension/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/unknown3.jpegUnknownKatherine Fawcett's Little Washer of Sorrows offers funny, unsettling stories that have drawn comparisons to the stories of Kelly Link.2015-06-23T14:39:15+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/06/18/an-interview-with-dina-guidubaldi/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/unknown2.jpegUnknown2015-06-18T17:39:06+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/06/16/how-to-make-high-concept-stories-unpredictable/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2603319.jpg2603319Dina Guidubaldi's story collection, How Gone We Got, fits neatly on any bookshelf containing George Saunders or Karen Russell.2015-06-16T18:39:51+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/06/09/how-to-write-from-multiple-points-of-view/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/unknown1.jpegUnknownScott Blackwood's novel See How Small "compassionately examines the fragile psyches of the individuals left behind in the haunting wake of murder," according to a New York Times review.2015-06-10T00:14:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/06/02/how-to-write-riveting-mundane-dialogue/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/unknown.jpegUnknownLove Me Back by Merritt Tierce was an Editor's Choice at The New York Times.2015-06-06T20:03:47+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/05/26/how-to-develop-a-rapport-with-the-reader/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/035_800x642_2.jpg035_800x642_2David James Poissant's story, "Stealing Orlando," appears in the latest edition of Newfound.2015-06-02T03:00:24+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/05/21/an-interview-with-nicelle-davis/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/unknown1.jpegTransformationsAnne Sexton's Transformations was praised by Kurt Vonnegut and called "blood-curdling" by Stanley Kunitz.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/face.jpgface2015-05-22T15:03:49+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/05/19/how-to-reveal-the-universe-through-a-single-detail/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/circus200.jpgcircus200Nicelle Davis latest book is the illustrated novel-in-poems, In the Circus of You. 2015-05-19T14:04:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/05/14/an-interview-with-joni-tevis/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/9780826307682.jpg9780826307682The Day The Sun Rose Twice has been called "definitive account of the days and hours leading up to the first nuclear explosion in history and the legacy it left."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/author.jpgauthor2015-05-14T13:27:41+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/05/12/how-to-write-with-negative-capability/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wiof.jpgwiofJoni Tevis' nonfiction collection The World Is on Fire is a collection for a future culture, with references to atomic bombs, Buddy Holly, the Alaskan wilderness, Liberace, and that old time religion.2015-05-12T14:01:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/09/19/an-interview-with-jamie-quatro/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/color_seated-201x300.jpgJamie Quatro2015-05-09T15:15:15+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/05/07/an-interview-with-melissa-falcon-field/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/melissa_falcon_field_headshot_final_1.jpgMelissa_Falcon_Field_Headshot_Final_12015-05-07T15:36:15+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/05/05/how-to-create-friction-between-character-and-scene/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/unknown.jpegUnknownWhat Burns Away, the debut novel by Melissa Falcon Field, has been called "thrilling" and "perceptive" by Tin House executive editor Michelle Wildgren.2015-05-08T09:09:34+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/04/30/an-interview-with-stefanie-freele/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/unknown3.jpegUnknownRay Vukcevich's story "The Sweater" is included in his collection Meet Me in the Moon Room from Small Beer Press.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/unknown2.jpegUnknown2015-05-04T03:38:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/04/28/how-to-direct-the-readers-attention/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/tlr_v2n1-cover_1-1-5x2-25.jpgTLR_v2n1-cover_1-1.5x2.25Stefanie Freele's story, "Davenports and Ottomans" was published in Tahoma Literary Review.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/tlr_v2n1-cover_1-5x2-25.jpgTLR_v2n1-cover_1.5x2.25Stefanie Freele's story, "Davenports and Ottomans" was published in Tahoma Literary Review.2015-05-04T18:09:55+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/04/24/an-interview-with-sora-kim-russell/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/unnamed.jpgunnamed2015-04-24T15:11:54+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/03/19/an-interview-with-d-watkins/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cropped.jpegD Watkinshttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/hanson-1.jpgJohns Hopkins MagazineD Watkins was profiled in a long feature in Johns Hopkins Magazine about his evolution from drug dealer to university lecturer and author.2015-04-08T03:42:14+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/04/02/an-interview-with-nicole-haroutunian/2015-04-08T03:35:16+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/04/07/how-to-write-self-conscious-prose/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/jaime-netzer-fiction.pngjaime-netzer-fictionJaime Netzer's story, "How to Die," appeared in Black Warrior Review and was reprinted in LitRagger.2015-04-07T22:35:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/03/31/why-a-story-should-show-its-dramatic-elements-twice/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/51mykukmrol-_uy250_.jpgSpeed DreamingNicole Haroutunian's story, "Youse," was published at The Literarian and is included in her debut collection, Speed Dreaming.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/a1ukb8plozl-_ux250_.jpgNicole Haroutunian2015-09-08T18:54:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/03/24/how-to-write-energetic-character-descriptions/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/9780385474542_custom-s2.jpgThings Fall ApartChinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart remains a staple of the World Literature canon, though it reads as contemporary as any fiction written today.2015-03-24T14:39:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/03/17/how-to-write-complex-characters/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/too_poor_pop_culture-620x412.jpgtoo_poor_pop_culture-620x412D Watkins' essay, "Too Poor for Pop Culture," examines the reach—or lack of—of popular media into East Baltimore.2015-03-17T20:35:21+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/03/12/an-interview-with-bess-winter/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/1379442418603.jpgBess Winter2015-03-12T16:40:32+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/03/10/how-to-write-a-quick-starting-first-paragraph/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/comb.pngcombBess Winter's story, "Are You Running Away?" appeared in Covered w/ Fur, the new weekly digital magazine from Austin indy press A Strange Object.2015-03-11T18:36:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/06/25/why-paragraphs-matter-in-a-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/unknown1.jpegUnknownRoxane Gay's story "Contrapasso" first appeared in Artifice Magazine and then in Mixed Fruit.2015-03-10T02:22:07+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/03/03/how-to-write-human-stories-amid-cosmic-conflict/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2150699.jpegPrada JournalAnabel Graff's story, "The Prom at the End of the World," won the Prada-Feltrinelli Prize and was published in Prada Journal.2015-03-08T13:21:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/03/05/an-interview-with-anabel-graff/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/8160213_orig.jpg8160213_orighttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/nooneishere_3001-200x300.jpgNoOneIsHere_3001-200x300A review in The San Francisco Chronicle said that "No One Is Here Except All of Us contains so many achingly beautiful passages, it’s as if language itself is continually striving to be a refuge."2015-03-05T15:31:10+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/02/26/an-interview-with-antonio-ruiz-camacho/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_6188.jpgIMG_6188The linked stories in Barefoot Dogs follow the members of a wealthy Mexican family after their patriarch, José Victoriano Arteaga, is kidnapped.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ruizcamacho007b.jpgRuizCamacho007Bhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/images.pngimagesAntonio Ruiz-Camacho's essay, "Keepsakes from Across the Border," was published as one of The New York Times "Private Lives" essays.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/firstperson45.pngfirstperson45Antonio Ruiz-Camacho's essay, "Keepsakes from Across the Border," appeared in The New York Times "Private Lives" column.2015-02-26T14:53:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/02/24/how-to-write-moments-of-high-emotion/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/91pyfbh1vfl-_sl1500_.jpgMadridAntonio Ruiz-Camacho's story, "Madrid," is included in his new collection Barefoot Dogs2015-02-25T14:52:58+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/02/19/an-interview-with-jane-hawley/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/61dsxxnnjl-_ux250_.jpg61DsXX+NnjL._UX250_2015-02-19T15:08:55+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/02/17/how-to-write-from-the-headlines/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/91ijjf14cul-_sl1500_.jpgThe Suitcases of San LeónJane Hawley's story, "The Suitcases of San León," was published in Amazon's literary journal, Day One.2015-02-17T15:12:49+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/02/10/how-to-build-a-tension-machine/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/unknown1.jpegEinstein's Beach HouseEinstein's Beach House by Jacob Appel has been called "a collection that takes a sharp look at the moments when we, whether child or adult, see who we truly are and the inevitability of who we will become."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/72f7c4_392419f4d00f49ba85f584526bdeae07_srz_245_332_75_22_0-50_1-20_0-00_png_srz.pngJacob Appelhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/contentimage-14173-278044-jacobappelphoto42913.pngContentImage-14173-278044-jacobappelphoto429132015-02-15T19:52:24+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/02/12/an-interview-with-jacob-m-appel/2015-02-12T17:30:09+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/02/03/how-to-incorporate-the-internet-into-your-fiction/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/unknown.jpegBen LernerBen Lerner is an award-winning poet whose second novel, 10:04, was included in many best-of lists for 2014.2015-03-02T17:38:51+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/01/29/an-interview-with-amanda-eyre-ward/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/amanda_leaning2.jpgamanda_leaning22015-01-29T15:02:54+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/01/27/how-to-write-understated-violence/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/9780553390506.jpegThe Same SkyAmanda Eyre Ward's novel The Same Sky follows two Central American children migrating to the United States. Jodi Picoult said, "This one's going to haunt me for a long time."2015-01-27T17:21:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/01/22/an-interview-with-laila-lalami/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/laila.jpglaila2018-02-13T16:06:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/01/20/how-to-write-dialogue-when-no-one-is-listening/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/moorsaccount_cover-201x300.jpgMoorsAccount_Cover-201x300In The Moor's Account, according to a New York Times review, "Lalami wants us to understand that storytelling is a religious act."2016-01-18T22:08:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/01/13/how-to-build-a-story-around-a-fairy-tale/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/unknown.jpegUnknownKseniya Melnik's story, "The Witch," was included in Granta's New Voices series.2017-12-23T19:50:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/01/08/an-interview-with-monica-mcfawn/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/screen-shot-2014-04-16-at-6-23-03-pm.pngBright Shards of Someplace Else"Bright Shards of Someplace Else," the debut story collection from Monica McFawn, won the 2014 Flannery O'Connor Award.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/m-mcfawn.jpgM-McFawn2015-01-08T17:29:18+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2015/01/06/how-to-use-danger-to-create-plot/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/summer12.jpgsummer122021-03-03T11:56:22+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/12/30/12-writing-exercises-from-2014/2015-12-26T12:57:09+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/12/23/how-to-write-an-ending-that-doesnt-resolve-conflict/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/stocking_porn-620x412.jpgstocking_porn-620x412Owen Egerton's essay about his parents' odd Christmas tradition appeared in Salon last Christmas.2014-12-24T13:08:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/09/04/an-interview-with-sarah-frisch/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/frischphoto.jpgFrischphoto2014-12-21T13:49:21+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/11/06/an-interview-with-michael-mcgriff-and-j-m-tyree/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/genius_gza_liquid-swords-620x620.jpgGenius_GZA_Liquid-Swords-620x620Our Secret Life in the Movies was inspired, in part, by Wu-Tang Clan's GZA's album Liquid Swords. GZA discusses the album here.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/10422392_343997229116575_5150369364986318786_n.jpg10422392_343997229116575_5150369364986318786_nOur Secret Life in the Movies by Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree was the subject of this interview at NPR's Morning Edition.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/images-1.jpegimages-1https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/images.jpegimages2014-12-20T13:23:58+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/12/11/an-interview-with-rahul-kanakia/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/150507-author-photo.jpg150507-author-photoRahul Kanakia’s story, “Seeking boarder for rm w/ attached bathroom, must be willing to live with ghosts ($500 / Berkeley)” was published in Clarkesworld, which recently won a Hugo Award for best Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine.2014-12-11T16:04:58+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/12/09/how-to-build-a-story-with-logistics/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cw_97_350.jpgcw_97_350Rahul Kanakia's story, "Seeking boarder for rm w/ attached bathroom, must be willing to live with ghosts ($500 / Berkeley)" was published in Clarkesworld, which recently won a Hugo Award for best Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine.2014-12-09T15:04:54+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/12/04/an-interview-with-steph-post/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/authorphoto20.jpgauthorphoto202014-12-06T23:07:52+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/12/02/how-to-write-active-character-descriptions/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/a-tree-born-crooked-front-cover-only-at-300-dpi.jpgA tree born crooked front cover only at 300 dpiA Tree Born Crooked, a crime novel by Steph Post, is set in the Florida panhandle and follows the disaster of a theft gone wrong.2014-12-03T02:12:34+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/11/29/an-interview-with-syed-ali-haider/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/b64haider-250x158.jpgb64haider-250x1582014-12-01T19:37:08+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/11/26/how-to-use-sensory-details/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2014-11-25-at-7-23-15-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-11-25 at 7.23.15 AMSyed Ali Haider's essay about food and religion, "Porkistan," appeared at The Butter, the new online journal edited by Roxane Gay.2018-10-19T19:16:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/11/20/an-interview-with-judy-chicurel/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/judyphoto-210.jpgjudyphoto-2102014-11-20T14:49:51+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/11/18/how-to-create-a-narrative-clock/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/9780399167072_p0_v2_s260x420.jpgIf I Knew You Were Going to Be This Beautiful2022-07-28T22:25:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/11/13/an-interview-with-kerry-howley/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/howleyrgb-1-206x300.jpgHowleyRGB-1-206x300In Thrown, Howley portrays the lives, battles, and worlds of two MMA fighters.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kerry-howley-2-200x300.jpgKerry-Howley-2-200x3002014-11-13T15:35:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/11/11/how-to-attribute-and-describe-dialogue/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/11a6671f9ca98afd4378571b75375fde_vice_670.jpgCold Water in TexasKerry Howley's "Cold Water in Texas" portrays the MMA fighter Charlie Ontiveros' attempt to fight in spite of a broken hand.2015-03-31T18:21:08+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/10/30/an-interview-with-david-gordon/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/david-gordon_credit-michael-sharkey.jpgDavid Gordon_Credit Michael Sharkey2014-11-09T20:14:28+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/11/04/how-to-write-sentences-that-surprise-the-reader/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/oslitm_final.jpgOSLITM_finalOur Secret Life in the Movies, by Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree, is a collection of linked stories inspired by films from the Criterion Collection such as Bladerunner and Devilfish.2014-11-04T17:07:47+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/about-2/contact/2014-11-03T19:15:17+00:00weekly0.6https://readtowritestories.com/2014/10/28/how-to-write-a-sex-scene/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/white-tiger_high-res.jpgwhite tiger_high resDavid Gordon's new story collection, White Tiger on Snow Mountain, features sex, murder, ghosts, and frauds. Its opening story, "Man-Boob Summer," was published in The Paris Review.2015-06-27T15:52:52+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/10/23/an-interview-with-shannon-a-thompson-4/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hviv4ckoizdtmhoyeck1rhiymnqrwhltdiok3r8mm6mk9a88tata_fpr66jaw1uqwjql_qxs_kbagg_esul0oa_phja731lofgi_pk8cbxt3c81ukw3unixlf9bkbugdw.jpeghviv4ckoizdtmhoyeck1rhiymnqrwhltdiok3r8mm6mk9a88tata_fpr66jaw1uqwjql_qxs_kbagg_esul0oa_phja731lofgi_pk8cbxt3c81ukw3unixlf9bkbugdwShannon A. Thompson's novel Take Me Tomorrow features a drug that makes its users temporarily clairvoyant. You can read the opening chapters here.2014-10-23T18:12:53+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/10/21/how-to-begin-and-end-chapters/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/takemetomorrow.jpgtakemetomorrowShannon S. Thompson's YA dystopian novel, Take Me Tomorrow, features a clairvoyant drug and an uprising against the oppressive State.2014-10-21T20:45:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/10/16/an-interview-with-michael-yang/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/9781555975043.png9781555975043Robert Boswell, one of the best-known writing teachers in America, argues in The Half-Known World that writers should not know their characters too well.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/a87fcfcf1dc10a8c0b12c3-l-_v351663806_sx200_.jpgMichael Yang2014-10-16T17:22:43+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/29/how-to-make-and-thwart-plans/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/onlinefeaturescover3112.jpgonlinefeaturescover3112Danish writer Mathilde Walter Clark's story, "The Disappearance of Things" appeared in The Chattahoochee review along with works by Roxane Gay and Aimee Bender.2015-03-05T01:00:42+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/31/an-interview-with-mathilde-walter-clark/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/copenhagen1-243x366.jpgcopenhagen1-243x366Mathilde Walter Clark recently published, "Report From the Flatlands of Statistics," essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books on guns and the differences in "gun culture" between Denmark and Texas. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/th-261_mathildewalterclarkprint.jpgth-261_mathildewalterclarkprint2014-10-14T14:36:15+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/10/14/how-to-make-small-intimate-stories-into-page-turners/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/unknown1.jpegHollywood BodiesMichael Yang's story "Hollywood Bodies Found Headless" appeared in Amazon's literary series, "Day One."2014-10-21T15:13:16+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/10/09/an-interview-with-jess-stoner/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/constructionworker.jpgConstructionworkerThe Dallas Morning News reported that "one in three construction workers in Dallas doesn’t get a break during the work day, no matter the time of day or temperature." https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/small_usps_truck.jpgSmall_USPS_Truckhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/91a87c99-tt-navphoto-ariassantiago-001.jpgHurting for WorkThe Texas Tribune's series "Hurting for Work" reveals the injuries and deaths to Texas workers in the midst of the economic growth nicknamed "The Texas Miracle."2015-03-14T18:39:24+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/10/07/how-to-reach-out-to-hostile-readers/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/postal-story.jpgpostal-storyJess Stoner thought being a postal carrier could be her dream job. It turned out to be a nightmare.2014-10-07T14:56:20+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/02/25/how-to-write-a-scene-that-cant-be-avoided/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/screen-shot-2014-02-21-at-5-36-21-am.pngArcadia MagazineBenjamin Reed's story, "King of the Apes," appeared in Arcadia Magazine.2014-10-05T03:24:30+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/02/27/an-interview-with-benjamin-reed/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/tarzan_of_the_apes_in_color.jpgTarzan_of_the_Apes_in_colorEdgar Rice Burroughs published Tarzan of the Apes in 1914 and wrote more than two dozen follow-up novels.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/benjamin-reed-tintype-small.jpgBenjamin-Reed-Tintype-Small2014-10-05T03:22:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/10/02/an-interview-with-donna-johnson/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/donnajohnson_headshot_rgb.jpgdonnajohnson_headshot_rgbhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/unknown.jpegDonna JohnsonDonna Johnson's memoir, Holy Ghost Girl, "takes you inside a world where God and sin and miracles and deceit and love are so jumbled together you can't tell them apart," according to Jeannete Walls, author of The Glass Castle.2014-10-02T13:58:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/09/30/how-to-create-meaningful-spaces-in-stories/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unknown-1.jpegUnknown-1Holy Ghost Girl by Donna Johnson portrays the author's experience growing up on the trail of a revivalist preacher who would eventually be sentenced to prison time.2014-09-30T17:14:21+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/09/25/an-interview-with-kalpana-narayanan/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/photoformichaelnoll.jpgKalpana Narayananhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unknown1.jpegUnknownKalpana Narayanan discussed death and the novel Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray, in this essay at The Millions.2014-09-25T15:26:18+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/09/23/how-to-create-a-character-foil/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/narayanan_36-4_bird.jpgnarayanan_36.4_birdKalpana Narayanan won Boston Review's Aura Estrada Short Story Prize with her story, "Aviator on the Prowl."2019-02-01T19:11:37+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/09/18/an-interview-with-ted-thompson/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tumblr_inline_miv5v80zxu1rgct00.jpgtumblr_inline_miv5v80zxu1rgct002017-08-29T04:46:54+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/09/16/how-to-make-characters-uncomfortable/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/9d3559023362a09fd76d010d8b212c7d.jpgThe Land of Steady HabitsTed Thompson's novel, The Land of Steady Habits, has been shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.2014-09-16T16:18:34+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/09/11/an-interview-with-amy-leach/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unknown.jpegAmy Leach2017-02-21T14:14:06+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/09/09/how-to-write-surprising-descriptions/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/images.jpegThings That AreOne reviewer said of the essays in Amy Leach's Things That Are, "If Donald Barthelme had made nature documentaries, the commentary might have sounded like this."2014-09-10T02:50:00+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/04/08/how-to-create-speed-in-flash-fiction/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/5560903623_77a1d09613.jpgtaco fixingsJuliana Goodman's story, "Hot N' Spicy" appeared as an online feature in Blackberry Magazine, a literary magazine featuring black women writers and artists.2014-09-03T18:02:35+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/09/02/how-to-make-the-impossible-possible-in-stories/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/unknown3.jpegUnknownSarah Frisch's story, "Housebreaking," appeared in The Paris Review.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/203.jpg203Sarah Frisch's story, "Housebreaking," appeared in The Paris Review.2018-05-20T00:49:16+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/08/28/an-interview-with-sean-ennis/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/unknown2.jpegUnknownhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-24-at-9-27-10-pm.pngScreen Shot 2014-08-24 at 9.27.10 PM2014-08-29T03:18:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/08/26/how-to-use-plot-spoilers-in-a-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ennis.jpegennisSean Ennis' debut story collection, Chase Us, follows the lives of boys living on the outskirts of Philadelphia.2014-08-29T03:18:10+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/08/21/an-interview-with-janet-stickmon/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/9781628460216.jpg9781628460216Race and the Obama Phenomenon The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union, from the University Press of Mississippi, was edited by G. Reginald Daniel and Hettie V. Williams.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/unknown1.jpegHeirs of ProphecyHeirs of Prophecy is part of the Forgotten Realms Trilogy by best-selling science fiction author Lisa Smedman. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/961_0407.jpg961_04072014-08-21T13:31:58+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/04/10/an-interview-with-juliana-goodman/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unknown.jpegBecause They Wanted ToMary Gaitskill's collection Because They Wanted Tohttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/images.jpegBecause They Wanted ToMary Gaitskill's collection Because They Wanted Tohttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1182014.pngJuliana Goodman2014-08-20T15:25:30+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/02/12/put-setting-to-work/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/boston-review-logo.jpgBoston-Review-logo2015-12-26T12:52:10+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/03/12/show-the-narrators-evolution/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/unknown.jpegUnknownhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/mem17cover.jpgMemorious 17 CoverNina McConigley's story "White Wedding" was first published in Memorius and will be included in her forthcoming debut short-story collection, Cowboys and East Indians.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ninamcconigley.jpegNinaMcConigley2014-08-20T01:34:59+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/03/an-interview-with-smith-henderson/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/images2.jpegSmith Henderson2014-08-20T01:09:38+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/08/19/how-to-bring-other-voices-into-your-writing/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/midnightpeachesfbcover1-e1343685568693.jpgmidnightpeachesfbcover1-e1343685568693Janet Stickmon's book, Midnight Peaches, Two O'Clock Patience, is a collection of poems, stories, and essays about the creative power of women.2014-08-19T12:39:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/08/14/an-interview-with-kelly-davio/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/authorphotolowres.jpgauthorphotolowreshttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/unknown.jpegUnknownKelly Davio is the poetry editor of Tahoma Literary Review and the author of the forthcoming novel-in-poems, Jacob Wrestling.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/uncdqipa_400x400.jpegKelly DavioKelly Davio is the poetry editor of Tahoma Literary Review and the author of the forthcoming novel-in-poems, Jacob Wrestling.2014-08-19T10:58:49+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/08/07/an-interview-with-laura-benedict/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1605985724_01_lzzzzzzz-198x300.jpg1605985724_01_LZZZZZZZ-198x300Laura Benedict's most recent novel, Bliss House, is "a novel that works as a mystery, a ghost story, and a touching family drama," according to NY Times Bestseller Jeff Abbot.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1401910309280.jpeg14019103092802014-08-13T11:01:35+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/08/12/how-to-use-theme-to-create-structure/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nograspingfeature-200x200.jpgNoGraspingfeature-200x200In her essay, "Strong Is The New Sexy," Kelly Davio argues that shifting the idea image of female beauty from thin to strong still leaves some people feeling like they're not real women.2014-09-20T13:22:04+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/02/04/george-saunders-tenth-december-writing-exercise-readtowritestories/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/9780812993806_custom-f9472c743ae546a0b19bf6a1c8ce3a89971d1a83-s6-c10.jpg9780812993806_custom-f9472c743ae546a0b19bf6a1c8ce3a89971d1a83-s6-c102014-08-09T02:53:21+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/02/07/george-saunders-narrative-pace-tenth-december-readtowritestories/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/images.jpegimages2014-08-09T02:53:09+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/02/09/setting-up-a-scene/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/images-11.jpegimages-1A Memory of Light is the final novel of the bestselling Wheel of Time series.2014-08-09T02:52:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/02/14/interview-esme-michelle-watkins/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/image.jpegimagehttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/photo-1-300x300.jpgphoto-1-300x3002014-08-09T02:52:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/02/19/manuel-gonzales-farewell-africa/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/images-1.jpegimages-1https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/images1.jpegimages2014-08-09T02:51:36+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/02/21/manuel-gonzales-miniature-wife/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/628x471.jpg628x4712014-08-09T02:51:15+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/02/26/writing-exercise-owen-egerton-book-harold/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/images-2.jpegimages-22014-08-09T02:50:30+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/02/28/an-interview-with-owen-egerton/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1223-elie-cover-articleinline.jpg1223-Elie-Cover-articleInlineIn his New York Times essay "Has Fiction Lost Its Faith?" Paul Elie compares Christian belief in American fiction to "a dead language or a hangover." https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/images2.jpegimages2014-08-09T02:50:14+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/03/05/disorient-the-reader/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/images-12.jpegimages-1The opening chapters of "Threats" by Amelia Gray can be read at Newfound.2014-08-09T02:49:27+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/03/07/amelia-gray-on-the-origin-of-threats/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/amelia-gray.jpgAmelia Gray2015-06-17T11:30:11+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/03/14/an-interview-with-nina-mcconigley/2014-08-09T02:48:41+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/03/19/do-ghosts-use-facebook/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/full_swiftbrutal.jpgfull_swiftbrutal2014-08-09T02:48:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/03/21/an-interview-with-meghan-mccarron/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/wbn-photo.jpgMegan McCarron2014-08-09T02:48:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/03/26/twist-endings/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/screen-shot-2013-03-25-at-8-45-45-pm.pngScreen Shot 2013-03-25 at 8.45.45 PMhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/screen-shot-2013-03-25-at-8-42-20-pm.pngScreen Shot 2013-03-25 at 8.42.20 PMhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/screen-shot-2013-03-25-at-8-40-12-pm.pngScreen Shot 2013-03-25 at 8.40.12 PMhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/logo.pngPEN AmericaBrian Evenson's story "Windeye" was first published in PEN America 11: Make Believe. The story was later selected for the 2010 PEN/O'Henry Prize Stories.2015-12-26T14:01:49+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/04/02/put-snakes-on-a-plane/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/shapeimage_1.pngshapeimage_12014-08-09T02:47:24+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/04/04/an-interview-with-stacey-swann/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/swann.jpgSwann2014-08-09T02:47:08+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/04/09/zombies-brains-pulp-literary/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/61nxediubl-_bo2204203200_pisitb-sticker-arrow-clicktopright35-76_aa278_pikin4bottomright-5222_aa300_sh20_ou01_-e1363318007562.jpgThe Dead We KnowThe Dead We Know is a zombie novel in the tradition of epics like The Walking Dead and Stephen King's The Standhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/images-1.jpegThe Dead We Know2014-08-09T02:46:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/04/11/an-interview-with-tj-danko/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/twd-nts-rick-grimes-s3-131.jpgtwd-nts-rick-grimes-s3-131How important is a coma to The Walking Dead? Check out this official plot summary from the show's website.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/screen-shot-2013-03-26-at-5-52-00-am.pngHitchcock's bombAlfred Hitchcock on Mastering Cinematic Tensionhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/zombie-silhouette.pngZombie-silhouetteTJ Danko's novel The Dead We Know was published as an Amazon e-book.2014-08-09T02:46:37+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/04/16/the-inscrutable-stranger-comes-to-town/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/quadekirstin_authorphoto.pngQuadeKirstin_AuthorPhoto2014-08-09T02:46:15+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/04/23/narrating-a-crime-scene-investigation/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/images.jpegvs. Death NoisesSteve by Marcus Pactor can be found online at this journal and also in his new collection of stories, vs. Death Noises.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/51hrkmxhfl-_sy300_.jpgvs. Death NoisesSteve by Marcus Pactor can be found online at this journal and also in his new collection of stories, vs. Death Noises.2020-06-20T13:56:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/04/25/an-interview-with-marcus-pactor/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/padgettcredben-williams.jpgPadgettcredBen WilliamsPadget Powell, a Southern literary master whose strange, brilliant stories rarely enter the pages of the Best American Short Stories, has called Marcus Pactor the most exciting writer working today.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/images-1.jpegMarcus Pactorhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/pactorpoet1.jpgMarcus PactorMarcus Pactor's debut collection of stories is vs. Death Noises.2014-08-09T02:45:44+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/07/raising-the-stakes-in-a-fragmented-narrative/2014-08-09T02:45:01+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/09/an-interview-with-nahal-suzanne-jamir/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cover_in_the_middle_of_many_mountains.jpgCover_In_the_Middle_of_Many_MountainsIn the Middle of Many Mountains by Nahal Suzanne Jamirhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/lars3_1310108403_crop_550x408.jpgStill from The KingdomThe Kingdom by Lars von Trierhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bio_2.jpgsuzanne jamirnahal suzanne jamirhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nahal_suzanne_jamir.jpgNahal_Suzanne_Jamir2014-08-09T02:44:37+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/14/using-dialogue-to-create-conflict/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/shapeimage_1.jpgThe Acentos Review Feb 20102014-08-09T02:44:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/16/an-interview-with-rene-s-perez-ii/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images2.jpegimagesRene Perezhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images.jpegimages2014-08-09T02:44:10+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/21/three-ways-to-write-dialogue/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images1.jpegMosley Little GreenWalter Mosley's novel, Little Green, is the latest installment in the Easy Rawlins series.2014-08-09T02:43:57+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/28/describe-setting-without-getting-lost-in-the-details/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images3.jpegunheralded kingThe Unheralded King of Preston Plains Middle is the debut novel from Jedah Mayberry.2014-08-09T02:43:34+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/30/an-interview-with-jedah-mayberry/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images4.jpegimagesConnect with Jedah Mayberry and find out what he's reading at Goodreads.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/481354_611664928849152_734410998_n.jpgJedah MayberryJedah Mayberry's debut novel The Unheralded King of Preston Plains Middle is out now from River Grove Press.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images-1.jpegJedah MayberryJedah Mayberry's debut novel The Unheralded King of Preston Plains Middle is out now from River Grove Press.2014-08-09T02:43:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/06/04/setting-up-the-inevitable/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/images-4.jpegThe Paris Review"Crossing" by Mark Slouka was first published in The Paris Review.2014-08-09T02:42:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/06/18/how-to-write-an-action-sequence/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/unknown.jpegFive ChaptersFive Chapters is an online literary journal that publishes stories serially in five installments over the course of a week.2014-08-09T02:42:21+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/06/20/an-interview-with-kevin-grauke/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/unknown-1.jpegUnknown-1Kevin Grauke's collection Shadows of Men won the XX prize from the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. You can read a review of the book here at the Dallas Morning News.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/story_kevin-grauke.jpgKevin-GraukeKevin Grauke's new story collection, Shadows of Men, was published by Queens Ferry Press and has been called X.2014-08-09T02:42:08+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/02/how-to-write-a-story-about-storytelling/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hannah_3_2_101.jpghannah_3_2_10(1)Barry Hannah's story "Water Liars" is from his collection Airships and was republished recently at Garden and Gun. Photo credit Maude Schuyler Clay2015-03-20T19:17:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/05/barry-hannah-reads-water-liars/2014-08-09T02:41:04+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/09/how-to-use-repetition-in-a-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/unknown3.jpegFictionautMatthew Salesses' story "In My War Novel" was a finalist at HTML Giant and appeared in Fictionaut, a journal that creates reading and writing communities using the tools of social media.2015-12-26T13:32:21+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/16/creating-suspense-and-suspension-of-disbelief/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2-27-goodbye-250x180.jpg2.27-Goodbye-250x180Laura van den Berg's story "Farewell My Loveds" was published by American Short Fiction and Atticus Review and is included in her story collection What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us.2014-08-09T02:40:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/18/an-interview-with-laura-van-den-berg/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/unknown.jpegFlamethrowers coverThe Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner is about motorcycle racing and the New York art world of the 1970s.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/smalfut.jpgBigfootLaura van den Berg's "Where We Must Be" tells the story of a woman who finds a job playing the role of Bigfoot. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/laura350.jpglaura350Laura van den Berg is the author of X. Her story, "Farewell My Loveds" does x2014-08-09T02:40:04+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/23/how-to-introduce-setting/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/boulevard-2.jpgboulevard-2Marc Watkins story "Two Midnights in a Jug" appeared in Boulevard Magazine.2021-02-22T20:34:44+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/25/an-interview-with-marc-watkins/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dustbowl.jpgdustbowlThe source of the title "Two Midnights in a Jar"https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/marc-watkins-002.jpgmarc-watkins-002Marc Watkins2014-08-09T02:39:34+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/30/how-to-write-about-remembering/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/images1.jpegMatt Bell's In the HouseMatt Bell's novelhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/images.jpegimagesMatt Bell's novelhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/picture-4.pngPicture-4https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/in-the-house-upon-the-dirt-between-the-lake-and-the-woods1.jpgIn-the-House-Upon-the-Dirt-Between-the-Lake-and-the-WoodsMatt Bell's novelhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/in-the-house-upon-the-dirt-between-the-lake-and-the-woods.jpgIn-the-House-Upon-the-Dirt-Between-the-Lake-and-the-WoodsMatt Bell's novel2014-08-09T02:39:19+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/07/31/how-to-use-unusual-words/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bearfull.jpgbearfull2014-08-09T02:38:57+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/08/01/an-interview-with-matt-bell/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/screen-shot-2013-07-31-at-9-07-55-pm.pngThe Bear and Matt BellMatt Bell's website offers quotes from writers about craft and the writing life.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bear_from_interior_white_cropped.pngbear_from_interior_white_croppedhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/554073_10100396204899386_248573540_n.jpgMatt Bell2014-08-09T02:38:38+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/08/06/how-to-describe-a-character/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/db16-logo-freepriotpallete-a809a8_01.pngdb16-logo-freepriotpallete-A809A8_0Kelli Ford's story, "Walking Stick" appeared in Drunken Boat.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/db16-logo-freepriotpallete-a809a8_0.pngdb16-logo-freepriotpallete-A809A8_0Kelli Ford's story, "Walking Stick" appeared in Drunken Boat.2014-12-20T21:06:05+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/08/08/an-interview-with-kelli-ford/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/9781555970789.pngNative American Fiction: A User's ManualDavid Treuer essay collection, Native American Fiction: A User's Manual, challenges some of the popular notions about the influences behind and critical approaches to literature by Native American writers. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/kelli_ford.jpgkelli_fordKelli Ford's story, "Walking Stick," was published in Drunken Boat.2014-08-09T02:38:03+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/08/13/how-to-set-the-rules-your-characters-must-live-by/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/shan-002.jpgshan-002Shannon Thompson's novel "Minutes Before Sunset" was a Goodreads Book of the Month in July.2014-08-09T02:37:45+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/08/15/an-interview-with-shannon-a-thompson/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/559595_454712004581470_1093722827_n.jpgShannon A Thompson2014-08-09T02:37:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/08/20/how-to-write-a-dream-sequence/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/unknown1.jpegSnow HuntersPaul Yoon's novel, Snow Hunters, was published by Simon and Schuster. It follows the travels of Yohan, a Korean who leaves his country after the Korean War to start over in Brazil. 2020-01-02T22:14:51+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/08/27/how-to-introduce-characters-to-each-other/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/nflogo.jpgNFlogoDaniel José Older's story, "Victory Music" was first published in PANK 8.06 and republished as part of Necessary Fiction's RePrint series.2014-08-09T02:36:32+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/08/29/an-interview-with-mary-helen-specht/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/screen-shot-2013-08-19-at-6-03-03-am.pngChimamanda Ngozi Adichi TED talkThe Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi delivered this talk about the dangers of reducing a place to a single narrative at TED Global. The talk is 20 minutes and definitely worth checking out.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/198_511742441911_1363_n.jpgMary Helen Spechthttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/in_car.jpgMary Helen SpechtMary Helen Spechthttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/with_beer_thumb.jpgMary Helen SpechtMary Helen Specht2023-06-17T09:30:38+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/09/03/how-to-create-your-narrators-voice/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/unknown.jpegThe ThicketJoe Lansdale's new novel The Thicket is about X. You can read a free excerpt on Facebook.2014-08-09T02:36:01+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/09/05/an-interview-with-joe-lansdale/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/unknown1.jpegJoe Lansdalehttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/575579_394951330613889_785476453_n.jpgJoe LansdaleJoe Landale is the author of many novels and stories, including the Hap and Leonard mystery novels and the novella Bubba Ho-Tep. His latest novel The Thicket will be released on September 10. 2014-08-09T02:35:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/09/10/how-to-add-historical-context-to-a-short-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cover_paper.jpgEast of the WestEast of the West, the story collection from Bulgarian-born writer Miroslav Penkov, was called, by the Boston Glove, one of the most exciting debut collections in recent memory. 2014-08-09T02:35:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/09/13/7-craft-lessons-every-writer-must-learn/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/books.gifHuff Post BooksCheck out my craft essay, "7 Craft Lessons Every Write Must Learn" at the Huffington Post Books blog.2015-09-10T23:29:05+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/09/17/how-to-write-about-an-unearthly-experience/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/unknown.jpegI want to show you moreJamie Quatro's story collection I Want to Show You More made New York Times reviewer Dwight Garner "laugh and gasp at the same time." 2014-08-09T02:34:42+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/09/24/how-to-put-the-gun-on-the-wall/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/images.jpegThe Peripatetic CoffinEthan Rutherford's story "Dirwhals!" was published at FiveChapters and included in his debut collection The Peripatetic Coffin.2014-08-09T02:34:09+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/09/26/an-interview-with-ethan-rutherford/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/b873b0_5f6e3c4050ca2474d50429fee21c395a-jpg_srz_566_511_75_22_0-50_1-20_0-00_jpg_srz.jpegPennyroyalEthan Rutherford is a member of Pennyroyal, a 4-piece rock band based in Minneapolis. The band's latest album is Baby I'm Against It.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/b873b0_b05da2ebded0848da550cdda5c6923dd-jpg_srz_411_411_75_22_0-50_1-20_0-00_jpg_srz.jpegPennyroyalhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/moby-dick-cover.pngMoby Dick CoverIf you've never read Moby Dick, you can check out the entire text online at The Literature Network. The book's known for its length and lengthy discourses about knot tying, but the first chapter is an old-fashioned adventure yarn.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/20130515_ethan-rutherford_39.jpgethan-rutherford_392014-08-09T02:33:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/01/how-to-move-between-past-and-present/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/get-back-better-on-09-05-2010.jpgGet back better on 09 05 2010Erin Pringle's story "The Midwife" appeared in Glint Literary Journal and will be included in Pringle's next collection How the Sun Burns.2014-08-09T02:33:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/03/an-interview-with-erin-pringle-toungate/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/9781906120429.jpgThe Floating OrderErin Pringle-Toungate's debut collection The Floating Order has been called.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/559679_378066465633763_991110157_n.jpgErin Pringle-ToungateErin Pringle's story "The Midwife" appeared in Glint Literary Journal and will be included in Pringle's next collection How the Sun Burns.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ireland-and-other-winter-2011-pictures-079.jpgIreland and Other Winter 2011 Pictures 0792014-08-09T02:33:16+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/08/how-to-use-a-single-detail-to-create-a-character/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/animal-crustacean-lobster-8-300x202.jpgAnimal-Crustacean-Lobster-8-300x202Anthony Abboreno's story "Filler" was published at American Short Fiction.2014-08-09T02:33:01+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/10/an-interview-with-anthony-abboreno/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/0.jpegAnthony Abborenohttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/lowepaqu.jpgAnthony AbborenoAnthony Abboreno's story "Filler" was published at American Short Fiction.2014-08-09T02:32:43+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/12/an-interview-with-american-short-fiction-editor-adeena-reitberger/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/4867562ca8d811e18bb812313804a181_7.jpgAdeena ReitbergerAdeena Reitberger co-edits American Short Fiction with Rebecca Markovits. The journal is based in Austin, TX.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/p1013560-182x300.jpgASF Issue 55The latest issue of the Austin-based journal American Short Fiction features a story by Roxane Gay and a Pushcart Prize winner "Teen X" by X. ASF also publishes work online, such as this story by Anthony Abboreno.2017-07-18T13:07:13+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/15/how-to-write-away-from-consensus-in-dialogue/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/x-0287-e1329045537214.jpgNew World WritingMary Miller's story "I Won't Get Lost" appeared at New World Writing, an online journal founded by former Mississippi Review editor Frederick Barthelme.2014-08-09T02:31:46+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/17/an-interview-with-mary-miller/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tumblr_inline_mtbz96cecf1sn76k7.jpgMary Miller2014-08-09T02:31:28+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/22/how-to-convey-emotion-indirectly/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/narrative_logo.pngnarrative_logoMũthoni Kiarie's story "What We Lost" appeared in Narrative Magazine as a Story of the Week.2015-05-13T16:48:44+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/24/an-interview-with-muthoni-kiarie/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/kiariemuthoni_authorpic3.pngKiarieMuthoni_AuthorPic32014-08-09T02:30:53+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/29/how-to-create-the-world-of-the-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/issue16image.jpgissue16imageAlex Perez's story "Eggs" was published in Subtropics, the literary magazine from the University of Florida. 2014-08-09T02:30:36+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/10/31/an-interview-with-alex-perez/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/01.jpegAlex Perez2014-08-09T02:30:22+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/11/05/how-to-write-plot-by-answering-the-why-question/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/unknown.jpegTiphanie YaniqueTiphanie Yanique's story "How to Escape from a Leper Colony" was first published at Boston Review.2014-08-09T02:30:06+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/11/12/how-to-create-a-monster/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/recommended_reading_logo.jpgrecommended_reading_logoAli Simpson's story2014-08-09T02:29:49+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/11/14/an-interview-with-ali-simpson/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ali_books.jpgali_books2014-08-09T02:29:33+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/11/19/how-to-raise-the-stakes-in-a-story-by-challenging-a-characters-identity/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/image.jpegGryphon2014-08-09T02:29:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/11/21/an-interview-with-charles-baxter/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/unknown1.jpegCharles Baxter2014-08-09T02:28:55+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/11/26/how-to-make-dialogue-move-faster/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/issue-14.jpgFiddleblack 14X story "Paper Tiger" appeared in Fiddleblack.2014-08-09T02:28:39+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/11/30/an-interview-with-liz-warren-pederson/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_0607.jpgLiz Warren-Pedersonhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/unknown-1.jpegVladimir NabokovCheck out this terrific interview with Vladimir Nabokov, published at The Paris Review.2014-08-09T02:28:23+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/12/03/how-to-write-an-ending-that-swerves/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/background-header-homepage.jpgbackground-header-homepage"Poinsettias" by Myfanwy Collins was published in PANK Magazine.2014-08-09T02:28:09+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/12/05/an-interview-with-myfanwy-collins/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/book-of-laney.jpgbook-of-laneyMyfanwy Collins first YA novel, The Book of Laney, will be published by X in 2014.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/unknown-2.jpegMyfanwy Collinshttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/myf-photo-2.jpgMyfanwy CollinsMyfanwy Collins work has been called "stark and stirring" and been compared favorably to the William Faulkner's claim from his Nobel Prize speech that "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."2014-08-09T02:27:49+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/12/10/how-to-find-a-storys-tone/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/full_featuredev.jpgfull_featuredevBenjamin Rosenbaum's story XXX appeared at Tor.com2014-08-09T02:27:30+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/12/12/an-interview-with-benjamin-rosenbaum/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/monsterhearts-site.jpgMonsterhearts-SiteMonsterhearts is a roleplaying game where players explore the confusion that comes both from growing up and feeling like a monster.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/stranger_things_happen_by_kelly_link_200_301.jpgStranger_Things_Happen_by_Kelly_Link_200_301Kelly Link's collection of stories, Stranger Things Happen, includes the brilliant story "The Specialist's Hat."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/benjamin-rosenbaum.jpgBenjamin-Rosenbaum2014-08-09T02:27:14+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/12/17/how-to-introduce-genre-elements-into-a-literary-story/2014-08-09T02:26:53+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/12/19/an-interview-with-daniel-jose-older/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/29lavalle-img-articleinline.jpg29lavalle-img-articleInlineIn this interview at the New York Times, Victor LaValle (The Devil in Silver), says, "The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream, or a nightmare."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/sncover-front-1000.jpgSNcover-front-1000Salsa Nocturna is a collection of 13 ghost stories, published by Crossed Genres Publications.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/danieljoseolder1.jpgdanieljoseolder12014-08-09T02:26:40+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/12/24/how-to-use-theme-and-variation-in-a-story-christmas-edition/2014-08-09T02:26:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/12/28/an-interview-with-owen-egerton-2/2014-08-09T02:26:11+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/12/31/7-craft-lessons-every-writer-must-learn-3/2014-08-09T02:25:51+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/01/07/how-to-use-transitions-to-move-through-time/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/unknown1.jpegUnknownVictor Giannini's essay about his father's struggles with PTSD, "His Room's a Jungle," was published at Narratively.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/unknown.jpegUnknownVictor Giannini's essay about his father's struggles with PTSD, "His Room's a Jungle," was published at Narratively.2014-08-09T02:25:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/01/09/an-interview-with-victor-giannini-2/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/vic-g-bio-pic-07.jpgVic G Bio Pic 07https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bhevwrftfu68m9jgxmhq_editgiannini-7.jpgBheVwRFTfu68m9jgxMhQ_EDITgiannini-7Victor Giannini with his father, Joe Giannini. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/scotttoo_pre_01.jpgscotttoo_pre_01Victor Giannini's novella, Scott, Too, "echoes the best speculative fiction of Philip K. Dick and the magical realism of Jose Saramago."2014-08-09T02:25:06+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/01/14/how-to-describe-a-thing-without-naming-it/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/52.jpg52Justin Carroll's story "Darryl Strawberry" was published in Gulf Coast 26.1. The story is about neither the Mets nor Darryl Strawberry.2014-08-09T02:24:47+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/01/16/an-interview-with-justin-carroll/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/andre_dubus1.jpgAndre_dubus1Andre Dubus' short story, "A Father's Story," was reprinted in Narrative Magazine, where you can read it bowlhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/justincarroll.jpgJustinCarroll2014-08-09T02:24:30+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/01/21/how-to-let-characters-reveal-their-feelings/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/philadelphia_113.jpgPhiladelphia_113Philadelphia was released in 1993, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, and was one of the first mainstream films about HIV/AIDS. It won two Academy Awards and nominated for two others, including best screenplay.2014-08-09T02:24:14+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/01/28/how-to-find-the-right-plot-for-your-character/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/division-243x366.pngDivision-243x366Long Division by Kiese Laymon has been compared to the novels of Haruki Murakami and called, by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "a little fantasy, a little mystery and a lot hilarious."2014-08-09T02:23:55+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/01/30/how-to-let-the-story-speak-for-itself/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kiese_laymon_dnu_img.jpgkiese_laymon_dnu_imgKiese Laymon's collection of essays, "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America" stunned the writer Roxane Gay "into stillness."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/unknown-1.jpegHow to Slowly Kill YourselfKiese Laymon's collection of essays, "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America" stunned the writer Roxane Gay "into stillness." 2014-08-09T02:23:40+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/02/11/how-to-write-a-story-whose-main-character-is-everyone/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/guernica-crowd.jpgguernica-crowdNicholas Grider's story, "Millions of Americans are Strange," was published by Guernica and is included in his new collection, Misadventure.2014-08-09T02:22:28+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/02/13/an-interview-with-nicholas-grider/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ng-013.jpgng-013Drunken Boat interviewed Nicholas Grider about his art and art projects, which are weird, thoughtful, and amazing. You can read the interview here.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/georges-perec.jpgGeorges-PerecThe American OuLiPo writer Harry Mathews wrote this essay about Georges Perec's novel La Vie mode d’emploi after it was translated and published in America as Life A User's Manual.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/grider_author_photo-large.jpggrider_author_photo.large2014-08-09T02:22:10+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/02/18/how-to-use-context-to-discover-a-storys-aboutness/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/06cover-sfspan.jpg06cover-sfSpanCaeli Widger's essay, "Why I Silence Your Call, Even When I'm Free" appeared in the "Lives" section in The New York Times Magazine.2014-12-06T19:53:26+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/02/20/an-interview-with-caeli-widger/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1689953_10203346447484921_909133082_n.jpgMichael Nollhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/michael-noll-4.jpgMichael Noll - 4https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/realhappyfamily-206x300.pngREALHAPPYFAMILY-206x300In her debut novel, family drama leads to a public intervention on a TV reality show and in a seedy Reno motel room. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/caeli-closeup-homepage.jpgCaeli-CloseUp-Homepage2014-08-09T02:21:32+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/03/04/how-to-create-conflict-with-subtext/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/e21512638601a2fe0afec97c1acf39da.jpgAsk My Mood Ring How I FeelDiana Lopez's YA novel Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel2014-08-21T21:22:02+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/03/06/an-interview-with-diana-lopez/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/f132c1355aaca75ad5c82c2ecf8edc33_xxul_y7iq.pngConfetti GirlDiana Lopez's middle grade novel Confetti Girl won the William Allen White Award and, according to ALA Booklist, "puts at its center a likable girl facing realistic problems on her own terms."https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/unknown.jpegDiana LopezDiana López2014-08-09T02:20:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/03/11/how-to-find-a-plot-and-humor-with-repetition/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/scf2006-580.jpgSCF2006-580Teddy Wayne's humor piece, "On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Human Who's Turned Into a Dog," appeared in the Shouts and Murmers Section of the New Yorker. Wayne is the author of two novels and many fictions like this one.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/images.jpegimagesTeddy Wayne's humor piece, "On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Human Who's Turned Into a Dog," appeared in the Shouts and Murmers Section of the New Yorker. Wayne is the author of two novels and many fictions like this one.2014-08-09T02:20:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/03/18/how-to-write-a-murder-scene/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/claire-vaye-watkins-c-lily-glass-1280x960.jpgClaire-Vaye-Watkins-c-Lily-Glass-1280x960Claire Vaye Watkins won the prestigious Story Prize for her debut collection of stories, Battleborn. Her story, "The Last Thing We Need," appeared in Granta 111.2017-01-22T14:58:44+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/03/25/how-to-write-ideas-into-fiction/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/cw_69_350.jpgClarksworld MagazineAliette de Bodard's story, "Immersion" appeared in Issue 69 of Clarksworld Magazine. 2014-08-09T02:19:25+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/03/27/an-interview-with-aliette-de-bodard/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2865540178_736f6ea83f_b.jpgAliette de Bodard websiteAliette de Bodard has composed eight "rules" for writing fiction about cultures other than your own. The rules, along with a lot of other great essays and links, are available here at her website.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bw_pic2.jpgAliette de BodardAliette de Bodard is the author of the Aztec mystery-fantasy series, Obsidian and Blood, and the science fiction novel On a Red Station, Drifting.2014-08-09T02:19:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/04/01/how-to-write-a-love-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/secondsbeforesunrise-2-copy.jpgSeconds Before SunriseSeconds Before Sunrise is second book in the Timely Death series, a Young Adult paranormal series by recent University of Kansas graduate Shannon A. Thompson.2014-08-09T02:18:56+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/04/03/an-interview-with-shannon-a-thompson-2/2014-08-09T02:18:28+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/04/15/how-to-distinguish-fact-from-fiction-in-an-essay/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1055164.jpgThe BeastÓscar Martínez's book of essays about migrants, The Beast, was published in English by Verso books and in Spanish by Icaria Editorial.2014-08-09T02:17:39+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/04/17/how-to-write-a-story-ending/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unknown1.jpegThe BeastÓscar Martínez spent two years traveling with Central American migrants through Mexico on their way to the United States. His essays about the migrants were published in the Salvadoran online newspaper El Faro and collected in The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrants Trail.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/9781781681329.jpegThe BeastÓscar Martínez spent two years traveling with Central American migrants through Mexico on their way to the United States. His essays about the migrants were published in the Salvadoran online newspaper El Faro and collected in The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrants Trail.2014-08-09T02:17:18+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/04/22/how-to-write-a-one-sentence-paragraph/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tumblr_static_gb.jpgGigantic BooksAdrian Van Young's story, "The Skin Thing," was featured on Electric Literature's Recommended Reading blog and will appear in the forthcoming anthology Gigantic Worlds.2023-06-01T00:57:02+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/04/24/an-interview-with-adrian-van-young/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unknown-11.jpegTrue DetectiveIn his recent essay at Slate, Van Young argues about the TV series True Detective that "the cosmic-horror genre—rooted, as it is, in humankind’s subprime position in the pecking order of the universe—is deeply entwined with the character of Louisiana’s physical and cultural landscape." https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unknown-1.jpegUnknown-1https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unknown2.jpegThe Man Who Noticed EverythingThe Man Who Noticed Everything has been called, by John Wray, "the secret love-child of so many authors I admire, from Ambrose Bierce to H.P. Lovecraft to Sherwood Anderson to Tobias Wolff." https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/avy_photo_lg.pngAVY_photo_lg2014-08-09T02:16:42+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/04/29/how-to-set-up-a-power-imbalance/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unknown3.jpegWe Need New NamesNoViolet Bulawayo's debut novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.2014-08-09T02:16:17+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/05/01/an-interview-with-oscar-martinez/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/logo.pngEl FaroEl Faro is the first online newspaper in El Salvador and one of the leading sources of investigative reporting in Central America. Óscar Martínez edits Sala Negra, which focuses on organized crime. https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/oscar_sq-2677bb1f1c33b54bda60d3883e243f93ea558580-s6-c30.jpgÓscar MartínezÓscar Martínez’s essays about traveling with Central American migrants were published in the Salvadoran online newspaper El Faro and collected in The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrants Trail.2014-08-09T02:15:57+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/05/08/an-interview-with-sarah-bird/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sarahbird.jpgsarahbird2014-08-09T02:15:14+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/05/13/how-to-set-the-mood/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/unknown1.jpegRemember Me Like ThisBret Anthony Johnston's debut novel, Remember Me Like This, has, according to Esquire, a "driving plot but fully realized characters as well"2015-01-04T13:26:12+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/05/15/an-interview-with-bret-anthony-johnston/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/baj-bio-pic.jpgbaj-bio-pic2014-08-09T02:14:39+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/05/20/how-to-describe-a-characters-mental-state/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/milesfromnowhere_coverfinal19.jpgmilesfromnowhere_coverfinal19Nami Mun's novel Miles From Nowhere was a Booklist Top Ten Novel in 2009.2014-08-09T02:14:20+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/05/27/how-to-ground-ecstatic-experience-in-human-motivation/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/the-fire-next-time.jpegthe-fire-next-timeJames Baldwin published The Fire Next Time, with its two long essays, in 1963, and its enormous success put Baldwin on the cover of Time Magazine. 2014-08-09T02:14:05+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/06/03/how-to-create-a-villain/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/images.jpegRevengeJennifer Ziegler's new middle-grade novel, Revenge of the Flower Girls, is set in the Texas Hill Country and features triplets as narrators.2014-08-09T02:13:39+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/06/05/an-interview-with-jennifer-ziegler/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/jziegler5-214x300.jpgJZiegler5-214x300Jennifer Ziegler's new middle-grade novel Revenge of the Flower Girls, has X2014-08-09T02:13:11+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/06/10/how-to-break-the-narrative-frame/2014-08-09T02:12:29+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/06/11/how-to-write-break-the-contract-with-your-reader/2014-08-09T02:12:08+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/06/12/an-interview-with-murray-farish/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/05away600.jpg05away600A. O. Scott of The New York Times didn't like the way the film Away We Go portrayed red America. You can read his review here.https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/murray-farish-web.jpgmurray-farish-web2014-08-09T02:11:41+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/06/17/how-to-carve-out-space-for-character-development-in-a-violent-setting/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/unknown.jpegEverything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky ClubBenjamin Alire Sáenz won the PEN/Faulkner Prize for Fiction for his collection, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. The stories are set along the border between El Paso and Juarez and center on the Kentucky Club, two blocks south of the Rio Grande.2014-08-09T02:10:40+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/01/how-to-create-energy-in-dialogue-with-summary/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/unknown1.jpegFourth of July CreekSmith Henderson's highly anticipated debut novel, Fourth of July Creek, was called "the best book I've ready so far this year" by Washington Post fiction editor Ron Charles.2014-08-09T02:09:54+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/08/how-to-set-up-the-second-half-of-your-novel/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/unknown.jpegChasing the SunNatalia Sylvester's debut novel, Chasing the Sun, is a literary thriller that has drawn comparisons to Gillian Flynn's blockbuster Gone Girl.2015-04-19T11:00:14+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/10/an-interview-with-natalia-sylvester/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/unknown-2.jpegNatalia Sylvesterhttps://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/unknown-1.jpegNatalia SylvesterNatalia Sylvester's debut novel, Chasing the Sun, is set in Lima, Peru, during the terrifying years of the Shining Path. It tells the story of a marriage -in-crisis that is pushed to the brink by a kidnapping. 2014-08-09T02:08:50+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/15/how-to-describe-a-house/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/unknown1.jpegThe Boy Kings of TexasDomingo Martinez's memoir, The Boy Kings of Texas, was a finalist for the National Book Award.2022-07-21T14:23:41+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/17/an-interview-with-domingo-martinez/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/images-1.jpegDomingo Martinez2014-08-09T02:08:04+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/22/how-to-create-space-for-digression/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/9780871402837_198.jpgPreparingtheGhostMech.inddPreparing the Ghost: An Essay... tells the story of the obsession that led Moses to photograph the mysterious giant squid.2014-08-09T02:07:37+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/07/24/an-interview-with-matthew-gavin-frank/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/author-photo-linocut.jpgAuthor Photo linocut2014-08-09T02:07:18+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/08/05/how-to-set-up-illogical-character-choices/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/background-header-homepage.jpgbackground-header-homepageLaura Benedict's story "When I Make Love to the Bug Man" was published in PANK's Pulp Issue.2014-08-09T02:06:03+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/06/24/how-to-build-a-political-argument-around-a-personal-story/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/virginmary3.jpgvirginmary3Domingo Martinez' memoir, The Boy Kings of Texas, will soon become a HBO series. His essay about the Affordable Care Act, "Quarantined," appeared in The New Republic.2015-12-26T12:31:33+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2014/05/29/henry-louis-gates-on-the-legacy-of-james-baldwin/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/unknown2.jpegJames BaldwinJames Baldwin2014-05-29T12:43:48+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/09/08/the-read-to-write-craft-seminar/2013-09-08T13:57:50+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/01/24/writing-exercises-short-stories-readtowritestories/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/cropped-screen-shot-2013-01-29-at-8-46-58-pm.pngcropped-screen-shot-2013-01-29-at-8-46-58-pm.png2013-08-25T04:10:45+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/25/what-well-cover-in-the-read-well-write-better-workshop/2013-05-27T18:50:36+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.com/2013/05/23/a-craft-workshop-with-personalized-writing-exercises/https://readtowritestories.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images-3.jpegGatsbyTo discover a writing exercise based on one of my favorite passage from The Great Gatsby, check out my guest post at The Writing Barn's website.2013-05-23T15:08:24+00:00monthlyhttps://readtowritestories.comdaily1.02024-07-27T14:00:19+00:00