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, October 28, 2018

The Unwritten Pact between a Writer and a Reader

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Most books of fiction or poetry involve an unwritten pact between the writer and the reader. That pact takes the form of an understanding th...

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Writing the Historical Novel: An Interview with Jasmin Darznik, author of Song of a Captive Bird

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I recently read the wonderful novel Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik , about Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967), one of Iran’s greate...

Saturday, September 8, 2018

The Influence of Islamic Poetry on Western Poetry

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It is so common these days in the West to stigmatize and stereotype the culture of Islam that we don’t often think about the fact that much...

Thursday, August 23, 2018

The Power of YES: Why Community Matters in Your Writing Life, guest blog by Joan Gelfand

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Do you know the story of how John Lennon fell in love with Yoko Ono? While visiting an art gallery—Lennon himself was a sketch artist a...

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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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