By Maggie King Write what you know. This mantra is drummed into the heads of writers, especially those of us at the start of our careers. ...

The two or three people who've read my work know me as a romance writer. Two of the three novel-length works I've published to date ...

Ever since I read A. P. Herbert’s Poem, “At the Theater (to the lady behind me)” I’ve been toying with the idea of writing an epistolary nov...

I go to poetry and fiction readings all the time. I host them, go to open mics, and often headline them. I do it for a lot of reasons. Firs...

John Brantingham When some mystery writers find out that I was a poet before I wrote mysteries, they expect me to be a little snobby. I...

I dislike poetry. I was never able to avoid poetry growing up, much as I tried. From junior high school through my first run at college ev...

Before I ever wrote a novel, before I considered publishing, I wrote poetry. I would not say that makes me a poet, but it was my way express...

In my last post , I talked about how I would be accompanying my husband on a trip to Denver. He had business there for three days; I intende...

Last February, a friend told me that writing poetry has helped her be a better prose writer. Writing poems has trained her to express her id...