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April 2023

The Writer Staff

By The Writer Staff

Features

To the Future and Beyond

By Kerrie Flanagan

How to write great science fiction.

Circle of Poets

By Deborah Straw

How to form your own poetry group -- and why.

True Stories

By T.J. Murphy

The craft of creative nonfiction.

Advice From the Frontlines

By Natalie Weiner

How to make it in freelance writing.

Broadening the Bookshelves

By Yi Shun Lai

Getting to know Jewish literature.