Announcing our July/August issue! Inside you’ll find our 23rd annual #FirstFiction roundup; Brian Gesko’s profile of Kate Zambreno, author of The Light Room; and Esmé Weijun Wang's guidance on how to build a writing practice while living with limitations: http://at.pw.org/JulyAugust2023

Colin Winnette, author of Users (Soft Skull Press, 2023), in a recent installment of “Ten Questions.” 

Melissa Febos, author of Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Catapult, 2022), in “The Heart-Work: Writing About Trauma as a Subversive Act.”

Announcing our March/April issue! Inside you’ll find a conversation between poets Patricia Smith and Tyehimba Jess, an interview with Rakia Clark of Mariner Books, Emma Hine’s lineup of 10 “award-winning” residencies, Gabriella Graceffo’s advice on surviving a toxic workshop, Jennifer De Leon’s tips on how to prepare for a writing residency, and more. Read more: at.pw.org/MarchApril2023

Maggie Millner, author of Couplets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), in this week’s installment of “Ten Questions.”

Julia Mallory, senior poetry editor of Raising Mothers, on the relationship between editors and writers in Agents & Editors Recommend. 

Kathryn Ma, author of The Chinese Groove (Counterpoint Press, 2023), in this week’s Writers Recommend.

Jamila Minnicks, author of Moonrise Over New Jessup (Algonquin Books, 2023), in “Ten Questions.”

Janine Joseph, author of Decade of the Brain (Alice James Books, 2023), on finding inspiration in the deep sea in a recent installment of Writers Recommend.

Bushra Rehman, author of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion (Flatiron Books, 2022), in Ten Questions.

David Rhodes in the September/October 2008 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. 

Chia-Lun Chang, author of Prescribee (Nightboat Books, 2022), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, in “The Beauty of Being: Our Eighteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets.”

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on what inspires her in a Q&A with Rigoberto González, published in the January/February 2023 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Announcing our dreamy Inspiration Issue! Pick up a copy today and float on a sea of ideas and recommendations for the year of writing ahead, including poetry rituals, paintings, photos, and films; plus, don’t miss our 18th annual debut poets’ roundup. at.pw.org/JanFeb2023

Joy Castro of Ohio State University Press in “Agents & Editors Recommend.”

Will Alexander, author of Divine Blue Light: For John Coltrane (City Lights Publishers, 2022), in the latest installment of “Ten Questions.”

Major Jackson in “Exalted Uterrance,” an interview published in the September/October 2010 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.