Guest editors have included Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, Pulitzer Prize–winner Elizabeth Strout, and National Book Award winners Terrance Hayes and Lauren Groff.

Layout of a Novel

One writer’s approach to planning and outlining his drafts: How to storyboard a novel trying each of the various “spreads”.

Whilst editing more of the never-ending manuscript last night, I became aware that some of my writing was tight. As tight as a publisher’s wallet in fact. I can clearly discern which sections I wrote during free-wheeling, word-flowing time off when I spent a couple of hours jotting down stream-of-consciousness, vaguely-related meanderings, which eventually morphed …

Jane Brox’s latest novel explores the effect of silence in prison and monastic lives to draw conclusions about its effects. “Remarkable both in its evocative research and its lyricism,” WTP prose editor DeWitt Henry reviews.

In an ongoing series of craft notes, Richard Wertime contemplates disorientation and the experience of wonder in fiction writing.

Beth Kephart learns “the liability of having, the politics of possession, the sound of time crashing time, the ache of what is loved and what will be lost.”