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Quotes & Notes: The Writer as Apprentice

by Steven Wingate

…ining and experience, they can become journeymen; with still more (plus an exam) they can become master plumbers. Apprentice plumbers also need to learn the intangibles of their trade. They learn what it takes to call themselves plumbers (how to run a business, how to interact with clients). It’s the same with apprentice writers. They learn, from masters and journeymen alike, the tricks of the trade (establishing voices, pruning sprawly plots) and…


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How Fiction Works: Discussion Review

by Anne Stameshkin

…alie Bakopoulos, and Jeremiah Chamberlin in discussing critic James Wood’s latest collection of essays, How Fiction Works. Feel free to join the conversation by commenting on our blog posts. In How Fiction Works, Wood approaches the elusive how behind craft by “ask[ing] a critic’s questions and offer[ing] a writer’s answers.” He explores such mysteries as the distinction between narrative and authorial language in order, in his own words, “to reco…


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An Optimist at the Core: An Interview with Alexander Weinstein

by Garry Craig Powell

…t American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (for the story “Openness”) His latest collection, Universal Love (Henry Holt, 2020), now available in paperback (Picador, 2021), is every bit as terrifying, as funny, and as thought-provoking as his first. Weinstein is a professor of Creative Writing at Siena Heights University and Director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Interview: Garry Craig Powell: Your website describes your…


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Where Are We Going Next? A Conversation about Creative Writing Pedagogy (Pt. 1)

…the most improvement? This issue is an old staple, in some ways, but it is newly complicated by the rise of program assessment as part of institutional accreditation over the last decade or two. Image Credit: Flickr As a faculty member in an independent writing program, I have been occupied with assessment from the beginning. Our program was founded in 1996 under some controversy, so the issue of whether we were producing “results” was a factor ea…


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Breaking and Entering

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

…Last week we featured Eileen Pollack’s new novel, Breaking and Entering, as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners. Congratulations: Nisa (@14writer) Procrastinatress (@denfemte) Jason Atkinson (@jasoncatkinson) To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us!…


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Entering the Memories of the Body: An Interview with Virginia Zaharieva

by Steven Wingate

…a poet as well as a fiction writer), Zaharieva is a psychotherapist whose practice combines Western and Eastern traditions; she directs the Bulgarian Institute of Body Psychotherapy. Nine Rabbits is her first book to reach American shores. In this interview, I was struck with how facile Zaharieva is in talking about the relationship between the self we call the “writer” and the self that is beyond writing—that both pre-exists and supersedes the a…


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How They Write

by Celeste Ng

…he stores them in a card catalogue that he bought at a library sale. Edwidge Danticat: She writes first drafts in flimsy blue exam notebooks that she orders from an online office supply store. She often uses 100 exam books for a draft. “The company I order from must think I’m a high school,” she said. FWR readers, what’s your writing process? Do you have a special font size, pen type, paper source, or ritual?…




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