I was 15 years old when my mother drove from Cleveland, OH to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio for a two weeks writers workshop. Only weeks before, my mother found out that I was gay by rummaging through my room and reading my journal. As a teen that loved writing…

Although my first book comes out this October, it’s still important to talk about the experiences along the way to help others navigate similar experiences. In all of my research into getting published, I’ve seldom encountered someone talking about why they turned down a first book deal. Well, this is my story and how knowing your worth as a writer is important. “WHEN THEY TELL YOU TO BE GOOD” IS COMING IN FALL 2022 WITH TIN HOUSE

With National Novel Writing Month and 2021 ending soon, it’s a good time to assess your 2022 writing goals with me. I imagine thousands upon thousands of writers will be polishing their NaNoWriMo manuscripts over the next weeks and months. At the end of this process, many will need literary…

There are many different ways to revise or rewrite a book. I’m currently a writer with one project on the way out (with news on that coming soon) and another work-in-progress that’s on its fourth draft. As a child of the internet, I was a big fan of sites, like…

I arrived in Standing Rock, North Dakota for the second time back in the winter of 2016. For months, indigenous leaders like LaDonna Brave Bull Ballard encouraged other indigenous tribes and activists to join the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. During my time there, I casually walked around in…

Today we’ll be talking about movies with plots that involve writers because I’ve been obsessed with writer-oriented movies for a while. As a culture writer, I’m always thinking of how artists, especially writers, are represented in media; whether it be the suburban kid moving to the big city to write…

Six months before there was an attempted assassination on his life at his home, 46 Hope Road, Bob Marley sat down outside at three am with his guitar and started to play. …