Over the course of what has been a crazy summer and will soon become a totally unprecedented year, I’ve been looking for ways to stay...

Do you like to read, all nestled in your pajamas, mask hanging from the lamplight extended above the book you're holding? Are you okay...

A recent article in The Atlantic, “Why American Publishing Needs Indie Presses,” makes notable points. For example, the five major...

This summer, Chautauqua Writers’ Center featured a virtual porch series and held a brown bag with Poet in Residence, Mathias Svalina....

We hope you all are finding ways to survive and perhaps thrive in these challenging times. In hopes of inspiring you to read and write,...

Todd Davis has long been a friend to and supporter of Chautauqua. When I was serving as interim director for the Chautauqua Writers...

It is not hyperbole for me to say the Chautauqua team is special. I don’t know of another project like Chautauqua that links a private...

I have heard young writers ponder if they should tell their hard stories. Our audience likes those stories—and let’s face it—writers need to

I am by no means an expert in memoir writing. And yet, as I finish up my first year as an MFA candidate, I find myself “in deep” so to...

It goes without saying that right now is hard on most everyone. I’m lucky. Lucky that I had a job during this time that still pays me...

Franz Kafka, on his death bed, asked his best friend Max Brod to burn his work. Brod ignored this request, and because of the denial of...

1. Get the piece workshopped. American writer Jodi Picoult said, “Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get...

My money is tight as a full-time student, but I really wanted to get a rest from classes over spring break--so I decided to pack up my...

Twenty-five years old Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, I’m in the pool by 6:00 am for an intense, hour and fifteen minute workout....

From Matt Over the Christmas break, I read The Geography of Risk by Gilbert Gaul, which tackles the sticky subject of sea level rise and...

From Tori In Katie Farris's hybrid micro-fiction, Boysgirls takes you into a fantastical world through her lyrical language and...

From Susan Masks, by Fumiko Enchi (1958, trans. from Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter 1983) is a short but powerfully haunting novel...

From Ryan This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, is an epistolary novel about time travel, secret...

1. Dedicate time to foster relationships with other writers. As writers, we need relationships and engagement with other writers—not only...

Ernest Hemingway declared, “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” In my much shorter experience as a writer, I have found myself...