The Loft Blog

Reading Like a Writer
White Horse and a Scary Start
Analysis of Erika T. Wurth's strange and mysterious horror novel "White Horse"
Allison Wyss
Mar. 10
The Bookish Brand
4 Ways to Diversify Your Income as a Writer
Strengthen your personal brand and expand your network with these creative revenue streams.
Rachel Werner
Mar. 9
Loft Spotlights
Lizzie Lawson on Writing About Relationships in Creative Nonfiction
Lizzie Lawson will teach a 6-week online flex class March 15th - April 26th titled "It’s All Relative: Writing Our Relationships in Creative Nonfiction". In this interview, we sat down with Lizzie to discuss her upcoming offering and the intricacies of writing about relationships.
Lizzie Lawson
Mar. 8
Loft Spotlights
Jay Vera Summer on Writing and Chronic Illness
Jay Vera Summer is scheduled to teach Creative Writing Through Chronic Illness this March. She sat down to discuss her class, writing, and illness.
Jay Summer
Mar. 1
Pro Tips
Lessons from Journalism: Done is Better than Perfect
Even if a first draft is terrible, it exists. It’s something you can work with. A sculpture can’t sculpt without clay. A first draft is your hunk of clay. It’s not supposed to look like the Venus de Milo yet.
Jaclyn Youhana Garver
Feb. 15
Reading Like a Writer
Snow Hunters and a Layering of Feeling
How we can use fiction to capture emotional states that are far too complicated to state simply
Allison Wyss
Feb. 7
The Bookish Brand
The Right Time for a Writers' Conference?
Is a writing conference right for you this year? Rachel digs in and looks at some upcoming ones on the calendar for 2023.
Rachel Werner
Feb. 3
Loft Spotlights
Ten Books Later, a Loft Student Returns Home
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.
Devoney Looser
Jan. 31
Pro Tips
Lessons from Journalism: On Not Sticking to the Plan
In this first in a blog series, Jaclyn Youhana Garver explores six things she learned from journalism that helps her creative writing practice.
Jaclyn Youhana Garver
Jan. 24
Reading Like a Writer
The Women Could Fly and Landscape Reflections
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.
Allison Wyss
Jan. 17
The Bookish Brand
Boost Your Writerly Biz in 2023
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.
Rachel Werner
Jan. 10
Loft Spotlights
Breaking Convention and Deconstructing the Paradigm
Teaching artist and literary agent Antoinette Van Sluytman on her upcoming online class, Decolonizing Fiction.
Antoinette Van Sluytman
Jan. 3