July 12, 2018
July 06, 2018
July 03, 2018
Let’s say you know the feeling, you feel the feeling, that your story’s supposed to convey.
June 16, 2018
By Andre Gianfrancesco
About two years ago, we started the first Hard Times writing workshop at the Denver Public Library, and since then, i
June 07, 2018
Once, after reading the first chapter of a novel I was working on, an agent told me the story felt a little slow.
June 04, 2018
By Louis Miller
May 31, 2018
Recently, I was digging in the containers of my outdoor potted plants, and I discovered the ornamental sweet potato v
May 30, 2018
I came to short story writing through Flannery O’Connor and John Updike in one of those high school English anthologi
May 29, 2018
Hollywood wants published books and short stories for the same reason book editors want agented material—curation.
May 25, 2018
Like action and dialogue, writing sex scenes can be extremely intimidating.
May 24, 2018
The results of the 2016 presidential election elicited a lot of different reactions: surprise, anger, the need to cry
May 22, 2018
Our world currently faces the highest numbers of displacement in its history, even higher than immediately after Worl
May 21, 2018
May 17, 2018
May 16, 2018
“History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda
May 15, 2018
Editor's Note: Conundrum Press is re-releasing Lighthouse instructor Nick Arvin's story collection,
May 11, 2018
After I decided to write my first-ever novel, I fell prey to what I call the Myth of the Natural Writer.
May 10, 2018
If you’ve ever had the good fortune to read a William Haywood Henderson novel, you’ve been treated to the fresh green
May 09, 2018
If you’re a writer who uses Scrivener, then you probably know the software is due for an upgrade.
May 08, 2018
There seems to be a prevalent feeling that young adult (YA) and middle grade (MG) literature is in some way less than
May 02, 2018
That’s a pretty great painting of a kingfisher, isn’t it? What? You don’t agree?
May 01, 2018
Screenwriter: Does Lit Fest offer classes for screenwriters? Or playwrights?
Lighthouse: Of course!
Lit Fest has YA offerings? You bet your Katniss we do!
As a nonfiction writer, you like to stick to the facts.
You’re a poet and you know it. So how do you figure out which classes to take at Lit Fest? We’ve got you covered.
