By Wes Jamison I began to follow Writing About Writing on Facebook when I redesigned my English 101 course. We entered the class focusing on what we learn about writing when we pay attention to what writers say about writing, both the noun and the verb, and how they learned to do it. I thought that
by Jake Brewer Some fiction writers focus on character, others on plot, still others on fleshing out the regional location of their work—this setting, in turn, becoming a character as much as any other. Shome Dasgupta manages to focus on all three of these aspects in his short novel Pretend I Am Som
by Patti Pangborn On October 18, poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch delivered his lecture “Poetry and the Problem of Politics” as part of the annual Flora Plonsky Levy Lecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Kirsch explored how politics can both inspire poets and shape the way we read
By: Gina Warren Whit Bolado is a fiction and nonfiction writer from Georgia whose work has appeared in Duende and Underground, the undergraduate literary journal of Georgia State University. His most recent publication, “What We Know of Them,” a story about relationships, change, and the function of
By Tori Moore I’ve been trying to figure something out lately. A professor said to me just a few weeks ago, “I don’t think I’ve ever met a Louisiana poet who doesn’t say place is an important theme in their writing—why is that?” I didn’t really have an answer. Is the landscape of the South just s
By: Ali Ünal JoAnna Novak is the author of I Must Have You (Skyhorse Publishing 2017) and Noirmania (forthcoming from Inside the Castle 2018). She has written for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, Guernica, and BOMB. She is a co-founder of the literary journal an
