Happy Short Story Month 2013! Once again, we’ll be celebrating short stories all month here at Fiction Writers Review:

Reviews of fantastic story collections, such as Jamie Quatro’s debut I Want to Show You More, which is our lead feature for the month. We’re also excited to publish reviews of Ethan Rutherford’s The Peripatetic Coffin, [...]

The second half of James Pinto’s conversation with Tom Bissell, on staying outside, the new way, and saying “Fuck it” to being afraid.

Part I of James Pinto’s conversation with Tom Bissell on video games, questions of genre, and a writer’s confidence.

Dan Keane talks with J. Robert Lennon about his new book, Familiar, as well as oversharing, life online, and the perils of writing from the gut.

Philip Graham speaks with his former student William Gillespie about his debut novel, as well as the mind-warping narrative strategies of the pulp writer Harry Stephen Keeler, story maps, and DIY publishing, among other things.

Christopher Hitchens died on December 15th of 2011. In honor of the year anniversary of Hitchens’s passing, Nick Papandreou remembers his long-time friend and fellow writer.

How to make a plan for writing your novel by focusing on not writing your novel.

Got a dreadful first novel stashed somewhere in the proverbial drawer? Take heart, dear writer. Roberto Bolaño will show you how to salvage from the wreck.

This illustrator, YA wunderkind, and all-around czar of imagination has more irons in the fire than a kleptomaniacal leprechaun could steal. Read on.

The debut author on artificial intelligence, San Francisco’s self-analysis, and the long artistic tradition of cyborgs.