Editor’s note: Poynter announced that the newly renamed 2024 Poynter Journalism Prizes will feature a category honoring longtime writing coach Roy Peter Clark and recognizing compelling short writing ...

The theme of Aristotle’s Poetics is not poetry as we now conceive of it, but the imitative arts. The first book treats especially of tragedy and epic poetry. Because the second book addressed comedy, ...

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For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

Folklore, legends and spooky stories have existed as long as the fires they’re often told around. Musing over ghosts, monsters and the unexplainable is an ancient pastime. You don't have to be Stephen ...

Some advice — helpful and otherwise — on the literary life, from living authors and Aristotle. Credit...John Gall Supported by By Noor Qasim Writing a novel is daunting. Where to begin? And then how ...