Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

The Canadian writer received the Swedish Academy's highest honor on Thursday, October 8. A master of textual deviation, Carson, who began as a classical philologist, blends poetry and popular culture, prose and verse, with both humor and erudition.

In my post last month, The History of the Mystery, I promised to follow up with some advice about how to write one. Here is something I presented in a slightly different form to some aspiring high …

The big bads need to be a little smaller.

In the grand theater of human storytelling, we are often conditioned to believe that the path is pre-determined, that the hero must climb the specific mountain and defeat the specific dragon in the…

Her new novel “Partita,” which debuts Tuesday, involves the protagonist’s upbringing on an East Tennessee cattle farm.

CROZET BOOK FEST 2026 SCHEDULE October 24, 2026 If you’ve ever been to Crozet Book Fest in the past, you know just how fun the panels are and this year will be even more of the same. From memoirs to

Our fall contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest.

YouTube video by MS NOW