I stopped by the Greenwich Treehouse in Manhattan tonight to catch up with a group of NaNoWriMo novelists who were industriously writing the last of their 50,000 words. Most of ... Read More

Think you know all there is to know about the process of getting published? Test your knowledge with this new quiz. (And if you feel you might like a refresher ... Read More

For this year's National Novel Writing Month in Austin, Texas, photographer and writer Deanna Roy led a group of writers down to a hidden waterfall for a nature NaNoWriMo write-in. ... Read More

For those in the United States, this week means Thanksgiving...and Black Friday. If you're stumped about what to buy the writer in your life (or someone's asking you for a ... Read More

'Tis the season...for short story contests, judging from the number of deadlines coming up next month. Among them, you'll find the Boulevard Short Fiction Contest (Dec. 15), the Crazyhorse Fiction ... Read More

For fiction, Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke, and for young people's literature, Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian were awarded the National Book Award for 2007 ... Read More

Every Sunday afternoon this month, NaNoWriMo writers will take over this Manhattan coffeehouse -- and coffeehouses across the country -- churning out that day's pages, trading information, and calling on ... Read More

The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer died this morning of renal failure at age 84. The author of The Naked and the Dead and The Executioner's Song ran with ... Read More

Jeffrey Yamaguchi, author of 52 Projects, has a new book out, Working for the Man -- and one particular chapter particularly pertains to writers. In "Making the Best of the ... Read More

The story of Millard Kaufman, author of the acclaimed novel Bowl of Cherries, may not be as dramatic as it sounds from the headline above -- a longtime screenwriter, Kaufman ... Read More

Did anyone else think they heard a starter's pistol go off at midnight last night? Or the sound of thousands of pens hitting paper? That would be the start of ... Read More