Poets & Writers

Poets & Writers, Inc. is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Find us on Bluesky

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Our new issue is here! Featuring eight authors’ insights into the sources of illumination in their creative lives, our 20th annual debut poets spotlight, a retrospective celebrating the debut poets we’ve featured since 2005, and more. https://t.co/4GaALjoWER Find us on Bluesky!

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Meet the authors who will work with @luxlotus to get expert advice on book publicity as part of @poetswritersinc's Get the Word Out program! https://t.co/eUllCQCOGb

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#ClipOfTheDay: In this video, the late Nikki Giovanni reads a selection of her poems and speaks about her life and career for the Wright Conversations series hosted by @TheWrightMuseum and @pbsbooks. https://t.co/vsRBIo2ls9

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.@reginalbrooks, the new president of @aalitagents, will convene educators next March to “create a road map for launching” the first creative writing MFA at a historically Black college. Read more in Katie Arnold-Ratliffe’s (@kttheet) interview: https://t.co/5DesKzzL84

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“I studied with Gordon Lish and he once said: ‘Never explain, never complain.’” In today’s Ten Questions, Lily Tuck discusses her writing process for The Rest Is Memory, out now from @LiverightPub. https://t.co/VwPkEhPzcd

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#ICYMI: Watch Poets & Writers features editor India Lena González introduce the 2024 cohort of “5 Over 50” debut authors for a virtual reading: @SuzetteEMullen, @DSmithSilva, Uchenna Awoke, @deborahtaffa, and Parul Kapur. #ClipOfTheDay: https://t.co/ibRGFRqPVJ

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Kimberly Blaeser, Angie Cruz, Kiese Laymon, and the Grove Atlantic editorial team will be honored by Poets & Writers at our 2025 Gala on March 24. Congratulations to these exemplary literary citizens! https://t.co/uF5r0r531s @BaizeShephard @acruzwriter @groveatlantic

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“How can you find the more evocative ending? Start from the final sentence and strike more than you keep.” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Amy Butcher offers advice on how to approach revising the endings of books and essays. https://t.co/PlFa8VgazW

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#FromTheArchive: “When I need inspiration I start giving more time and attention to the world around me. I write an e-mail to someone I miss. I make a mix of the best songs ever,” writes Kirk Lynn in #WritersRecommend. https://t.co/zC4rJOncQ4

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#FromTheArchive: Write a scene about a very specific experience using only sensory imagery to describe what happened. #PWNonfictionPrompt: https://t.co/4RuNPWMKLX

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#ClipOfTheDay: In this Tucson Humanities Festival event held @UAPoetryCenter, scholar Jacqueline Barrios introduces Brandon Som, who reads from his Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection, Tripas (Georgia Review Books). https://t.co/Sy7JoGXYjt

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The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic book of essays on poetry and influence by Michael Collier, and #PWWritingPrompts on postmodern structures, taboos, and true stories. Read more: https://t.co/ZItagjk9ET

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In line with its mission of supporting “marginalized artists” facing “restrictive systems of conventional publication,” @center4bookarts offers a new opportunity that provides mentorship and a stipend for BIPOC writers to launch their publishing projects. https://t.co/qmiyTCBTyw

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#ClipOfTheDay: In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast with host Jenna Seery, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about how he wrote the many characters and perspectives in the third book of his series, The Third Realm. https://t.co/2UpChdB2OI

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Our virtual event celebrating this year’s 5 Over 50 authors (@SuzetteEMullen, @DSmithSilva, Uchenna Awoke, @deborahtaffa, and Parul Kapur) starts in an hour. You won’t want to miss it! RSVP here: https://t.co/zCF0TkW9OG

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We feature three new novels in our new installment of #PageOne: Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow (@Tin_House), Ben Grossberg’s The Spring Before Obergefell (@UnivNebPress), and Padma Viswanathan’s The Charterhouse of Padma (Godine). (@mslcheng) https://t.co/Ih9q3RBucG

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Join our features editor India Lena González this evening at 7PM EST for a virtual celebration of the remarkable authors featured in our 5 Over 50 2024! RSVP here: https://t.co/zCF0TkW9OG

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#ClipOfTheDay: In this @LateNightSeth interview, Percival Everett talks about how a game of tennis influenced the premise of his National Book Award–winning novel, James. https://t.co/ZQs1KdD8q9

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@MosabAbuToha discusses the “responsibility to document” his experience of war through poetry, as well as the redeeming power of memory and imagination to preserve the places—the “remind[ers] of home”—physically erased by the destruction in Gaza. https://t.co/G0wm1DZBCV

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“My advice boils down to this: Don’t send your work to presses you don’t genuinely love or that don’t align with the kind of writing you do; your book deserves better.” Straight talk from Christine Stroud of @AutumnHousePrs: https://t.co/C0tTJKmvFp