LITERARY NEWS ITEM: A 285-page novel, “A Void,” recently translated from French into English, does not contain the letter “E” anywhere in the entire text, either in the original or the translation.

(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

Time-starved readers say they want short writing. Editors want to give it to them. Only we writers stand in their way. We –- who demand our anecdotal leads. We -– who love narratives but revile the ...

When I took this assignment three years ago, moving my column to the top of Page A2 and writing six times a week instead of once, my editors told me I could write about anything I wanted. Just do it ...

Stories matter. They convey the human experience and all of its complexities in a way that allows us to live the lives of people we’ve never met, people who are different than us, and through ...

How often have you been told as an actor to go make your own content? Go write a short. Go star in your own short film. Sounds easy enough. But how do you make sure that short actually helps your ...

“What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky” is Nigerian-American writer Lesley Nneka Arimah’s debut short story collection. Since its release in April 2017, it has won the 2017 Kirkus Prize and the ...