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.

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 ...

If writing had never been invented, this world would be a wholly different place. For starters, some of us, cough, would be far less employed. On the broader scale, though, without writing information ...

(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 ...

“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 ...

Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, told The Atlantic in 2001 that she was a busy woman who liked to let her stories decide their own futures. Here's Munro on how she first started ...

A former prosecutor found solace and renewal in a writing process he teaches to inmates in Minnesota. By Ernesto Londoño Photographs by David Guttenfelder Reporting from Minneapolis. Before handing ...

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 ...