Active Reading to Step Up Your Writing
by Corrine Kumar We grow as writers by reading, but we often read passively—leaving the understanding of stories to our […]
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Advice for New Writers
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Breaking Into Publishing Isn’t Easy, but if You’re Not in America, It’s Even Harder
By Sascha Stronach Note: This article first appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021. Publishing (verb): the act of
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What Speculative Fiction Writers Can Learn from the Origins and Evolution of the Wuxia Genre
by Yilin Wang Note: This article first appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021. When I tell other writers
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Managing A Creator’s Public Profile and Navigating Audience Entitlement
Congratulations, You’ve Published Your Work and You Have Fans (and Critics): So What Do You Do Now? by Amber Benson
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Short Fiction Rejection Letters: Best practices and expectations
by Benjamin C. Kinney Rejection letters are an inescapable part of the writing life, especially for authors of short
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Author Advances: An Update for Your Expectations
by Alice Speilburg Nearly every summer, I bring on an intern for the agency, and each week we cover a
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On Grants
by Gillian Polack It’s suddenly harder to make a living as a writer. It was never easy. Setsu Uzumé
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Submission Tetris: An Analytic Approach
by Laurence Raphael Brothers Introduction Short fiction submissions can be challenging. There are many factors to juggle in deciding what
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Writing ‘POC’ is Not Enough
Writing ‘POC’ is not enough. It doesn’t merit applause, or points for diversity. What does merit applause and accolades is acknowledging and depicting unreduced minorities—especially marginalized voices—in writing. We are not a monolith. Our stories are as complicated and intersectional as anyone else’s.
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How to Ask for Things
by Cat Rambo,
I’ve talked about how to work with a mentor previously, so I wanted to follow-up on that by talking about something that overlaps a bit with that: asking for favors.