The Loft Blog

How we can use fiction to capture emotional states that are far too complicated to state simply

Is a writing conference right for you this year? Rachel digs in and looks at some upcoming ones on the calendar for 2023.

Devoney Looser is an Arizona State University professor, Guggenheim fellow, and the author of ten books. She reflects on getting her start at the Loft.

In this first in a blog series, Jaclyn Youhana Garver explores six things she learned from journalism that helps her creative writing practice.

The Women Could Fly, a novel by Megan Giddings, is set in a world like ours, except the misogyny's a bit more blatant: women must marry men or else register to be carefully watched, and the accusation of witchcraft could lead to execution.

Approaching professional goals from this perspective may be the fresh outlook needed to help you simplify, sell and scale your way to more success in 2023. A solid starting point is acknowledging what you don’t know about entrepreneurship.

Teaching artist and literary agent Antoinette Van Sluytman on her upcoming online class, Decolonizing Fiction.

Blythe Baird is an author, viral spoken word poet, and teaching artist. Her work has been featured by The Huffington Post, VICE, Write Bloody, Button Poetry, Mic, and EverydayFeminism. Her short film "When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny" won the 2017 ADCAN film award.

TaneshaNicole is a Black queer non-binary poet living in the Twin Cities, MN by way of Salt Lake City, UT. They are a Pisces and it shows. TaneshaNicole has represented venues in national competitions such as CUPSI, IWPS, WOWPS, and most recently NPS where they placed 4th overall with their team.

Anna Šverclová is a poet currently studying Creative Writing at Macalester College. Their work generally focuses on intergenerational trauma and memory. They write for both the page and for slam. Anna's work has been featured in several literary magazines.

The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun (translated by Sora Kim-Russell) is a terrifying novel told from the perspective of a person (Oghi) at the complete mercy of his caregivers. Some are careless. Some are cruel for the sport of it. Some fail to understand him. But the most frightening is his mother-in-law.

The Bookish Brand launched one year ago. A few times I’ve wondered how long it may take for me to run out of topics to cover. Then I’ll encounter another person who is grappling with how to sustain a full-time writing career or an active side hustle.