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10/02/2026

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop.  Each event takes…

10/02/2026

Ekin Oklap discusses the intensity of adolescence, antidotes to loneliness, and how early experiences shape our lives

10/02/2026

The AMERICAN HAGWON author on many sh*tty drafts, pleasing the ancestors, and finding answers to her questions

10/02/2026

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The novel has always been obsessed with technology. You can trace realist fiction’s evolution along advances in religion, …

10/02/2026

Like Sylvie, the protagonist of my new novel, Wayfarers, I grew up in downstate cornfield Illinois, where I was an odd duck in a small pond. I was always reading, always writing. Poetry, and storie…

10/02/2026

A conversation between Inna Krasnoper and Eugene Ostashevsky Inna Krasnoper Eugene Ostashevsky Eugene Ostashevsky: You are not just a translingual poet, in that your poems often include languages in addition to their main, or base, language, but you are also a bilingual poet in that you write poems....

10/02/2026

Online Exclusive On Intention and Intuition Carl Phillips and Marjorie Lotfi in conversation Carl Phillips, Marjorie Lotfi Category: Conversations Marjorie Lotfi: A few months ago, you raised the question of the role of intention versus that of intuition in writing poetry. When chairing....

10/02/2026

September 25th, 2026Announcing the Inaugural , Sept. 28 to Oct. 2New York, NY (September 25, 2026)—The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) in collaboration with Midnight Mind Magazine, and over one hundred other literary publications, is thrilled to announce the inaugural...

10/01/2026

My newborn twins are finally asleep. White noise chirring, dawn beginning to hum through the bedroom’s linen curtains, and I’m studying their identical bald heads—the twins are not iden…

10/01/2026

“Sometimes I know I need to just observe and live life and let the writing come later.” —Tomas Moniz, author of The King of Aloe Vera

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