Advice for Writers

This blog provides advice to writers on their literary work. See the end of this post for links on these topics: How can you get the full benefit of workshops? How can you work best with your mentor? What, when, and how should you publish?

Sunday, February 22, 2026

A Tribute to Dorothy Bryant

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Dorothy Bryant (1930–2017) was a brilliant writer whose work deserves much more attention. She excelled both as a novelist and a playwright...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Mary Mackey on Dorothy Bryant’s Novel Killing Wonder

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On some occasions you can tell, not just a book by its cover, but a great deal about the author who wrote that book. No cover does this mo...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Writing for Someone Completely Different from You

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Sometimes when I’m writing or revising I try to imagine a reader who has almost nothing in common with me. For example, I’m a middle-class, ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Remembering Ted Berrigan

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When I was a young poet living in the East Village in New York City in 1976, I took a writing workshop with Ted Berrigan . Ted taught at th...
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Zack Rogow
Zack Rogow is an award-winning author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. Zack’s memoir about his dad, the writer Lee Rogow, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is available for creative writing manuscript critiques. You can contact him at zrogow at berkeley dot edu. His other recent books include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio, and The Number Before Infinity. You can watch a brief documentary on his writing or watch him read on YouTube. He's the editor of an anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press. The entries in this blog are Copyright © 2011 to 2026 by Zack Rogow.
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