August 17, 2017
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August 09, 2017
August 08, 2017
New writers often assume a few things about what it takes to draft a picture book ...
August 01, 2017
Singers sing. Speakers speak. Actors act. All of them use their voices. But writers write.
July 31, 2017
Here’s a dirty little secret: You don’t have to be an exceptional writer to be successful in the nonfiction writing b
July 26, 2017
Maybe you've read about Mathias Svalina in the
July 24, 2017
Ann McCutchan has one of those long, diverse bios that mak
July 20, 2017
By Andrea Torres
Disclaimer: I am NOT a writer.
June 27, 2017
So often, we fiction writers project a reader who is lazy, listless, or passive—who has to be seduced.
June 08, 2017
For the first time this year, Lighthouse was able to offer four Lit Fest fellowships to emerging writers.
May 30, 2017
May 23, 2017
Renee Gladman's latest book of prose is titled Calamities and I can’t recall ever experiencing reading
May 16, 2017
In May I flew to New York, my former hometown, for PEN America’s 2017 World Vo
May 10, 2017
I met Bill Knott on my first day of graduate school at Emerson College.
May 01, 2017
Who is Etgar Keret?
April 26, 2017
With the growing popularity of free verse poetry, it's been said that poetic form is dead these days. But all po
April 12, 2017
Once there was a travelling storyteller.
April 11, 2017
I was sitting in the middle of my living room, stacks of papers strewn out about me in a winding labyrinth—me at the
March 14, 2017
I’m not holding my breath for the triumphs of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.
March 10, 2017
In Donald Barthelme’s short story “See the Moon,” from his collection Sixty Stories, the narrator says, “Fra
March 08, 2017
Editor's Note: There are some minor spoilers in this blog! Read with caution... :)
March 01, 2017
I got an email from a friend.
February 21, 2017
Another quarter, another Making the Mountain, another
February 07, 2017
I fell in love with
January 24, 2017
I grew up in Pampa, a small town in the dusty, flat Texas Panhandle.
January 17, 2017
Instructor Mark Mayer is new-ish to Lighthouse, but he's old-ish to Colorado, writing, and the hard work of revision,
