Inspired by Ross Gay’s poetry, Just Buffalo Literary Center embarked on a six-month project this year to explore patterns of gratitude and delight with their local literary community. Read some of the responses found in their “In Gratitude” boxes around Buffalo, NY: at.pw.org/InGratitudeI...

“How do we write the unsayable and write it slant so that the poem’s truth or meaning is more oblique and open-ended?” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Jill Bialosky offers insight on how to address something that is difficult to say in writing. at.pw.org/BialoskyCC3

#PWPoetryPrompt: Choose a poem you love and write your own version of it, following the original structure and adding a new perspective. #FromTheArchive: at.pw.org/NewBones

#ClipOfTheDay: Watch the trailer for The Librarians, a documentary which focuses on the escalating book bans in public libraries and the harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing the work of librarians and how they are standing up for the freedom to read. at.pw.org/TheLibrarians

The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a collection of essays on the life and work of Forrest Gander edited by Robert Baker, and #PWWritingPrompts on similes, sci-fi futures, and conversations. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN

Don’t miss our new #PageOne prose books: Saving the Fire by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz, Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance by brenda Lin, and The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience by Chris Young. More: at.pw.org/PageOne2026x5

“When I scramble my assumptions about audience, structure, or format, it exercises my brain and keeps my thinking nimble,” writes Todd Boss in our latest issue. Learn about the ins and outs of writing the libretto and how any writer might take the leap from page to song: at.pw.org/WritingLibre...

#ClipOfTheDay: “It felt like the kind of book that you can only write when someone is either about to die or has died.” In this Copper Canyon Press event, Paisley Rekdal reads from her book Heritance and talks about grief, forgiveness, and lineage. Watch: at.pw.org/Heritance

Learn about a collaborative writing method that can help counter the ruthless editor within and encourage joy. “The process sparks creativity in the way rehearsal works in theater, where mistakes are allowed to be made without penalty,” writes author Lynn C. Miller. More: at.pw.org/CreateWithou...

“When they talk about your book, do you hear genuine enthusiasm and a smart way of describing it that turns on the string lights wrapped around your heart?” Jenni Ferrari-Adler, senior agent at Aevitas Creative Management, on what to look for when you meet an agent: at.pw.org/AERFerrariAdler

“Authors think that if they present themselves as a veritable vending machine of books…agents will want to sign them…right away. The truth is it’s hard to sell one book, never mind many in different genres….” For more advice from Kate McKean on writing in multiple genres: at.pw.org/MultiGenreWr...

In this week’s #TenQuestions, T. Geronimo Johnson channels the voice of “America’s indomitable ghost writer, da Whizz—the original AI,” answering questions the same way he wrote his sweeping new novel, The Occidental Book of the Dead, out now from William Morrow. Read more: at.pw.org/10q4johnson.

#ClipOfTheDay: For this Pioneer Works event, Ben Lerner talks about how the instability of dialogue informed his latest novel, Transcription (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), in a conversation with New Yorker staff writer Alexandra Schwartz. Watch: at.pw.org/Transcription

“I read so much nonfiction, because I have to learn. There are all these interdisciplinary aspects: anthropology, law, economics, politics, it all gets in there,” says Min Jin Lee in our new issue. Learn more about her writing process: at.pw.org/MinJinLee

“We can reveal a truth in a poem by telling another’s story, within which lies our own.” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Jill Bialosky encourages poets to embrace fictional speakers in their work. at.pw.org/BialoskyCC2

#PWNonfictionPrompt: Write an essay on politeness and your thoughts about social embarrassment. Has there been a time when you suffered consequences for your politeness? #FromTheArchive: at.pw.org/Politeness

#ICYMI: Watch this virtual reading and conversation of the five debut authors featured in “The New Nonfiction 2026” in the September/October issue: Nita Noveno, Phill Branch, Megan O’Grady, Joseph Trinidad, and Elena Dudum. #ClipOfTheDay: at.pw.org/NewNonfictio...

The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a collection of essays on writing, teaching, and power by Helen Betya Rubinstein, and #PWWritingPrompts on swallows, publicity stunts, and fan letters. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN

#PageOne “And a world we want to begin begins: / I turned my love for you into art, // that I may triumph over death.” Find out which of the dozen books celebrated in our latest issue has these poignant first lines: at.pw.org/PageOne2026x5

“The best method of getting the literary community to regard you as a serious writer and not a dilettante…is for you to manage the less-flashy aspects of your practice.” Learn author and teacher Lyzette Wanzer’s best practices for your pursuit of writing opportunities: at.pw.org/StrategicSub...

#ClipOfTheDay: Watch the trailer for the new film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, directed by Georgia Oakley and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw. at.pw.org/Sensibility

In our latest Small Press Points installment, we spotlight Lost Kite Editions, a press launched earlier this year that grew out of a partnership between writers incarcerated in Minnesota prisons and non-incarcerated writers from the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. at.pw.org/LostKiteEdit...

“Now I view silence as a volcanic pressure that eventually erupts. I feed my silent self by paying reverent attention to the silent world around me,” writes Elizabeth Metzger, author of The Going Is Forever (@milkweededitions.bsky.social). Read on: at.pw.org/WRMetzger

“This life was unexpected. I told myself that I could not be so afraid of judgment that I would hold back. And so I did not.” Author Min Jin Lee on how a medical cure subsequently shifted her outlook on writing: at.pw.org/MinJinLee

“Sometimes I know I need to just observe and live life and let the writing come later.” For this week’s #TenQuestions, Tomas Moniz discusses writing his new novel, The King of Aloe Vera, out now from Algonquin Books. Read more: at.pw.org/10q4moniz.

#ClipOfTheDay: In this WIRED interview, Emily St. John Mandel discusses how the current political climate in America informed the speculative catastrophe in her new novel, Exit Party. Watch: at.pw.org/ExitParty

Deesha Philyaw breaks down how to approach intimate scenes in a book: “Just like it’s boring if the characters have the same conversation or argument again and again, they also can’t have the same sex. The dynamic has to change the way their relationship is changing…” at.pw.org/RadicallyEnt...

“Several revolutions make a final electric charge feel even more earned.” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Jill Bialosky encourages poets to let truth surprise them in the writing process. at.pw.org/BialoskyCC1

#PWFictionPrompt: Try to carve out a few hours this week to spend engaged in an activity that is very different from your usual working environment and write a series of flash fiction pieces inspired by your time spent “outside.” #FromTheArchive: at.pw.org/WorkingOutside

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Green Apple Books event, Black Ocean celebrates its twentieth anniversary with readings from authors Carrie Olivia Adams, Kristin George Bagdanov, Nathan Hoks, and Zachary Schomburg. Watch: at.pw.org/BlackOcean20