WHEN I was single, I never needed a room of my own. I wrote whenever I wanted, day or night, in my tiny studio apartment, where I lived alone. Drafts of poems and stories and books would be strewn about for days, undisturbed. My clerical job didn’t r

AT THE beginning of the pandemic, like many people in New York City, I was adjusting to a sudden lockdown and constant sirens, plus news that all of my cousin’s family members in Los Angeles were sick with COVID—one person on a ventilator. Partly to

The M.F.A. Writers Workshop in Paris invites students to work under the guidance of internationally acclaimed faculty in one of the world’s most inspiring cities. Paris—with its rich literary history and cultural attractions—provides an ideal setting

Big Five publishers Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster, as well as several independent presses, recently committed to raising entry-level salaries to between $40,000 and $45,000 at the end of 202

HOME. It is an appropriate place to start a conversation with Melissa Febos about her writing. Much of her work, whether in the form of memoir or essays—or some altogether different, hybrid form of creative nonfiction distinctly her own—begins and en

IN THE FIRST pages of How Beautiful We Were, published by Random House in March, Imbolo Mbue writes about a “sickness that had arrived like a thief in the night,” an illness that brought fevers and “raspy coughs” until soon “death had grown more ruth

FOR many, a writers conference or retreat offers various enticements: a new locale to jolt oneself out of old habits, the opportunity to meet fellow writers and network with editors and publishing professionals, and the chance to take classes and enc

For over thirty years, NYU has distinguished itself as a national center for the study of writing and literature. The Creative Writing Program enables students to develop their craft while working closely with some of today’s most distinguished write

PUBLISHING A DEBUT NOVEL IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD BACK in 2019, when I signed the publishing contract for my debut novel, Body of Stars, launch party ideas were already springing to mind. Perhaps I’d host the launch at a planetarium, which would complem

Feedback from readers Well, here I am again, inspired to write a few choice words about your fabulous magazine. Two things: I love how you put faces on the Features section of the Contents pages. It is always nice to see my fellow writers. Second, I

Nupur Chaudhury, a public health strategist living in New York City, grew up in the nineties sending letters through the mail. She received weekly aerograms from relatives in India; she corresponded with a pen pal in Texas; her father even took her t

Feedback from readers I want to tell you how moved I was by Elizabeth Wetmore’s observations in “5 Over 50” (November/December 2020) that she felt a terrible grief when she thought that her characters’ stories might not get told and that their book w

Copper Canyon Press … All night I listenfor you listening. If thereis something you needto tell me, God, you musttell it to meyourself. —from “Annunciation” HOW IT BEGAN: I first became sick—or realized I was sick—in 2012, the year I applied to MFA p