Acclaimed poet, fiction writer, and essayist Kim Addonizio shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the way that great poems work to surprise us, transcend time, and take us to unexpected places.

Poet, fiction writer, and essayist Kim Addonizio shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the opportunities that personal writing offers writers and readers – and about the strategies and approaches you...

Internationally-acclaimed writer Rabih Alameddine shares the few things he’s learned about the elasticity of identity and imagination.

Isabel Allende, one of the most widely read and acclaimed authors in the world, shares the Five Things She’s Learned about writing fiction, discovering your voice, and writing the work you were born to...

Bestselling writer and teacher Steve Almond shares Five Things He’s Learned about failure’s essential role in success – and about the necessity of reframing our creative setbacks as opportunities for...

Bestselling writer and teacher Steve Almond shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the powerful emotions that serve as the engines of our storytelling – and about the ways that these emotions show up...

Writer, producer, and mother Julianna Baggott shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the good, beautiful, weirdly-efficient blur that can streamline your life and transform your writing.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cara Black shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that a strong sense of place anchors readers and draws them into the story.

Bestselling author, editor, and teacher Sari Botton shares the Five Things She’s Learned about getting older by inviting people to share their own personal experiences of aging.

Best-selling author, editor, and Executive Director of Aspen Words Adrienne Brodeur shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how attention and patience shape and deepen a writer’s craft.

Writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras shares the Five Things She’s Learned about writing and creativity – and about the artistic necessity to write from the emotional landscape of crisis.

Celebrated President and Publisher of the HarperOne Group, Judith Curr shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the power of storytelling and the joys of publishing – plus the behind-the-scenes...

Award-winning cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares the Five Things She’s Learned from a lifetime of drawing and writing, and from the fulfillment that comes with looking inward and observing of the world around...

Benjamin Dreyer, author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer’s English and the retired copy chief and managing editor of Random House, shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how you can make your...

Award-winning writer and teacher Andre Dubus III shares the Five Things He’s Learned about writing, revision, and the glorious challenge of bringing your work to its fullest fruition.

Award-winning writer and teacher Andre Dubus III shares the Five Things He’s Learned about why writing happens best when we summon the faith and the nerve to get out of our own way – and free-fall instead...

Celebrated poet, writer, editor, and scholar Camille Dungy shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that creativity arises from the soil of our most fundamental relationships – with the land,...

Poet, novelist, songwriter, and teacher Joseph Fasano shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how poetry works – and how poetry helps us all become better listeners to the world around us, to the voices...

Creators, publishers, and producers Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner share the Five Things They’ve Learned about selling your book and maintaining a living as writer today.

Writer and Executive Director of National Writing Month Grant Faulkner shares the Five Things He’s Learned about what happens when you apply the principles and aesthetic of brevity to all your creative...

Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press, share the Five Things They’ve Learned about the essential mindsets that...

Writer, editor, and educator Sarah Fay shares the Five Things She’s Learned about what it means to write our stories of illness, injury, and recovery.

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George shares the Five Things She’s Learned about self-editing can help you to recognize what works in your own writing – and to fix what doesn’t.

Author of How to Be a Travel Writer, Lonely Planet’s best-selling guide to travel writing, Don George shares the Five Things He’s Learned about what makes a great travel story — and how to maximize...

Multi-award winning journalist and author Janine di Giovanni shares the Five Things She’s Learned about writing — and appreciating — narrative non-fiction and memoir.

Best-selling author, essayist, public speaker, lyricist and libretto writer Adam Gopnik shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the mysterious alchemy of rules, practices, and inner secrets that memoir...

Best-selling author, essayist, public speaker, lyricist and libretto writer Adam Gopnik shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the mystery of mastery – and about the ways that our humanity is...

Best-selling writer Daniel Handler shares the Five Things He’s Learned about Creativity – or the five things he had thought he’d learned, until life and experience suggested otherwise.

Culture journalist, author, and teacher Will Hermes shares the Five Things He’s Learned about telling someone else’s story – in ways that both preserve and pay tribute to their personal history.

Culture journalist, author and teacher Will Hermes shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how to articulate and share the emotional impact of songs you love — how to illuminate their meaning, amplify...

Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield shares the ways that poems’ original seeing can be invited, recognized, and worked with to open new depth, openness, and possibility – in words...

Award-winning author and teacher Ann Hood shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to bring focus to a singular slice of your life in ways that produce the story that you want to read – and write.

Award-winning author and teacher Ann Hood shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to bring the characters, conflicts, and plot points that keep you up at night from your heart to the page.

Acclaimed writers and interviewers Pico Iyer and Michael Shapiro share the Five Things They’ve Learned from experience about the Art of the Interview.

Acclaimed writers and interviewers Pico Iyer and Michael Shapiro share the Five Things They’ve Learned from their own experience — and from the experience of the many creative figures they’ve met —...

Best-selling author Steven Johnson shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the critical tools innovative thinkers use to nurture their creative practice – and the five key questions consistently...

Acclaimed historian and writer Catherine Grace Katz shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to uncover and share the stories that challenge our ideas of history.

Best-selling writer Laurie R. King shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the essential elements of a great mystery, and the rewards they make possible for readers and writers.

New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King shares the Five Things She’s Learned about creating memorable characters who come to life for her readers.

U.S. Marine Corps veteran, writer, and teacher Phil Klay shares the Five Things He’s Learned about American citizenship – what it means, the obligations it places upon us, and the uglier way our shared...

Writer and speaker Stephanie Land shares the Five Things She’s Learned about writing that breaks down walls and encourages empathy toward others – and about how you can claim and share your personal...

New York Times bestselling author and Omega Institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser shares the Five Things She’s Learned about what happens when women trust their instincts, dignify their values, and speak...

Acclaimed author and editor Phillip Lopate — the celebrated central figure in the revival of the American essay —, shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the powerful legacy and continuing pleasure...

Celebrated writer and teacher Rebecca Makkai shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to navigate the joys and demands that come with creating art while at the same time keeping the people you love...

Celebrated writer and teacher Rebecca Makkai shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the issue she’s found most connected to almost early every problem on the page – and why improving the ability to...

Writer, author, and professor Roosevelt Montás shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the transforming power of the Great Books—and why the ideas and passions within these ancient sources still...

Singer/songwriter, producer, and author Allison Moorer shares the Five Things She’s Learned about sharing her family’s stories in prose and in song – and about all that taking ownership of our most...

Acclaimed journalist and author Susan Orlean shares the Five Things She’s Learned while writing her forthcoming memoir, and about the approaches sure to be of help as you share your own personal history.

Celebrated novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and professor Peter Orner shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that great writers bind fact and invention to create something new: the...

Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides share the Five Things They’ve Learned about the joys of returning to their favorite stories and short-story writers. They look at the works of three great masters, and at...

Celebrated novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and professor Peter Orner shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how great writers create remarkable movement and energy within a single paragraph –...

Celebrated novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and professor Peter Orner shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how worrying less, chilling out, and reveling (a little) in not writing makes all the...

Best-selling writer and teacher Richard Panek shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the spirit of discovery and exploration – and the process by which great writing begins with something new and...

Novelist and host of “The Page One Podcast” Holly Payne shares the Five Things She’s Learned about a book’s critical first page – and about how you can ensure your opening paragraphs do all they can to...

Poet, editor, and founder of Conscious Writers Collective Maya C. Popa shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that poets can bring desire to the page with heat, precision, mystery, and...

Writer, editor and performer Joe Randazzo shares the Five Things He’s Learned about cultivating creativity and collaboration – and about all it takes to consistently turn good ideas into great ones.

Writer and teacher Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how to make the most of your one opportunity to announce yourself to the world – and to set the tone for the writing life...

Michael Ruhlman – best-selling writer of more than 30 books of non-fiction, fiction, memoir and cookbooks – shares the Five Things He’s Learned about writing and living well – while writing about...

New York Times bestselling writer Russell Shorto shares the Five Things He’s Learned about diving into your past and bringing the story you find there to life.

Best-selling writer and poet Maggie Smith shares the Five Things She’s Learned about what it means to prioritize your creative practice in ways that allow you to stay productive and feel most like yourself...

Grief expert and author Claire Bidwell Smith shares the Five Things She’s Learned about reconciling the anxiety and loss that accompanies grief – and about the writing process that can bring hope,...

Novelist, memoirist, cultural critic, and screenwriter Matthew Specktor shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the powerful ways that the imagination can operate in nonfiction writing – and how reality...

Writer, poet, and minister Danté Stewart shares the Five Things He’s Learned about storytelling’s power and magic, and all that happens when readers encounter stories that help them get safely through...

Writers and teachers Laurie Stone and Richard Toon share the Five Things They’ve Learned about the ways that great writing delivers genuine pleasure for the reader – and the writer.

Adobe Research Lab veteran Matt Strain share the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways artificial intelligence is helping writers find new ways to develop their ideas and cultivate their creativity.

New York Times best-selling author Cheryl Strayed shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to honor your desire to create and see your projects through – even when life’s demands make doing so...

Journalist and author James Surowiecki share the Five Things He’s Learned about how to write about ideas – how to take complicated concepts and make them accessible; and how, in the process, to enlighten...

Poet, author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to harness our emotions into the full force of our creative work — and how to put all that we’re...

Editor, writer, and publisher Brooke Warner shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways in which our intimate responses to change can positively drive our most powerful urges to write and create.

Editor and publisher Brooke Warner shares the Five Things She’s Learned about what agents, editors, and publishers look at when considering a new manuscript – and all they’re really looking for.

Editor and publisher Brooke Warner shares the Five Things She’s Learned during her nearly two decades of leading and championing women-only publishing about the ways that women writers work, collaborate,...

Writer and publisher Brooke Warner shares the Five Things She’s Learned about putting out the message you most want to share in the new year.

Author and critic Alissa Wilkinson shares the Five Things She’s Learned about shaping her voice and perspective in support of the art she loves.

Celebrated writer and raconteur Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, shares the Five Things He’s Learned...

Celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the practical and spiritual techniques that have helped him to keep the faith and to keep going as a...

Celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder shares the Five Things He’s Learned about honoring family as a source of creative inspiration – about being truthful in the service of mercy and...