Craft

Great stories are all well and good, but there are some that are so perfectly written that they are actually able to teach more to their readers about the craft…

During a recent class meeting of my Intermediate Poetry Workshop at the University of North Texas, I asked my students an important question after they had turned in their second…

For decades, a mysterious visitor known as the Poe Toaster left three roses and a partial bottle of cognac on the writer’s grave each year on January 19, Poe’s birthday.…

It may not be evident from the questions posed below, much less whatever line they may be drawing, sinking, etc., but Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014)…

“Short stories are gems. Novels, however,” according to one of my favorite creative writing teachers, “are big bags.” Mike Heppner’s work both affirms and challenges this judgement. For while Mike’s…

Whither the lyric? A hand-wringing (see below) form perhaps by definition—itself a manifestation of doom—a certain amount of common sense attends to hand-wringing over the lyric, its utilities as well…

I rejoice in accepting [this beautiful award] for and sharing it with all the writers who were excluded from literature for so long — my fellow authors of fantasy and science…

This is a guest post by Phil Eklund, founder of Sierra Madre Games and designer of the board games Origins: How We Became Human, High Frontier, and Pax Porfiriana. It…

(All photos credit Meagen Crawford. All artwork credit Lauren Rogers.) I divorced young, after marrying even younger, at twenty-five. That’s something I don’t often reveal, but unflinching honesty has been…

When I was younger, under 7 years of age, I didn’t understand what the big deal was about death. When you died, you wouldn’t know you were dead, so you…

I owe what I know—and that appeals to me as only a little, still—of John Trefry’s novel Plats (Inside the Castle, 2014) courtesy of Michel Butor. Not that either John…

Introduction Kyle Muntz: Hi everyone! So, for Entropy’s first monthly conversation, I’m interested in the idea of book-length narrative poetry—particularly the question of why it seems to have become so unpopular.…

Shit. I don’t want to be the one to bring this up, but I have to. We all cheat in some way—whether it’s finding inspiration from the indexes of poetry…

Two-headed feelings each have their own brains, which is the characteristic that differentiates them from two-faced feelings. The condition of two-headedness in feelings is most often caused by a developmental…