For a long time, I dreaded conducting field research for my fiction writing. I think this goes back to my early writing days: ah, those...

(A warning before you start this post: It’s a little wonky. I dive pretty deep into my algorithm. If you dislike detailed discussions of...

I’ve written a lot (most obviously here) about the importance of submitting stories and essays to smaller, newer, and (ostensibly) more...

I write mostly fiction. I’m working on a (ridiculously long) novel, from which I occasionally submit excerpts as short stories to...

With the (Unasked for) Help of Jonathan Lethem One of the most common grammar errors—or let me put that in quotes: “errors”—I see when...

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. I officially started submit back in October 2020. (Philip Kennedy-Grant, if you’re reading this, I...

As an editor, I frequently see the same recurring errors of typography. In this post, I want to focus on the three most common, having to...

I’ve been running Submitit now for about a year, and I’m happy to say that we—I must say we, since the stories are yours—have had some...

(Image used with absolutely no permission whatsoever.) Remember those old Hair Club for Men commercials, where a man (with a full head of...

(This article was published in slightly different form in The Writing Cooperative.) An editor, like an ornithologist, stumbles upon...

(This essay was published in slightly different form in The Writing Cooperative.) A year or so ago, I started working on Submitit's...

The Writer Files is a great podcast dedicated entirely to writing. Episodes focus on "the habits, habitats, and brains of a wide spectrum...

I’ve been working on a flash fiction story for the past week or so—a story of two lovers. It’s coming together. I have some clever facts...

I consistently see the same handful of mistakes.

Learn how to use hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes.

If you're getting rejected, you are not alone.

Five ways to vary your writing and expand your field of literary markets ...

A few years ago I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s “The Signature of All Things” in One Story, and was blown away.

I recently wrote an article about the single biggest mistake writers make when submitting their stories to literary journals.

We're very excited to be working with the wonderful writer Erin Rose Belair. The story she sent us is beautiful and dark (and includes an...