Exclusive Interview: Maggie O’Farrell Talks Hamnet, Shakespeare and Her Best Writing Advice

She Writes had the opportunity to sit down with the inescapably brilliant author Maggie O'Farrell following the adaptation release of Hamnet. We got the chance to talk about what it was like collaborating with Chloe Zhao [...]

Kate Baer Talks How About Now, Centering Poetry Around Aging and Motherhood and Engaging in the Real World

Bernice L. McFadden on Revisiting Her Books 20 Years Later, Teaching and Writing Across Genres

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Exclusive Interview: Maggie O’Farrell Talks Hamnet, Shakespeare and Her Best Writing Advice

Writing Historical Fiction Without a Net

4 Shakespearean Techniques Modern Writers Can Adapt

10 Female Authors Who Have Written Shakespeare-Inspired Books (And How They Approached It)

15 Quotes from Hamnet Author Maggie O’Farrell Every Writer Needs to Hear

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NYT Bestseller Catherine Newman Talks Wreck, Parenting Influencing Her Writing and the Scariest Part of Being a Writer

How to Bring Magic Into Your Creative Life

How Introverts Can Write Their Own Story (Even if Your Brain Says No!)

Writing Clean Romance in a Spicy Book World

How Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird Helped Me During a Critical Editing Process

Joy as Resistance: Writing Gay Vampires Amidst Book Bans

Ilana Masad on Beings, Archives and Genre

Stephanie Perkins on Taking Care of Yourself as a Writer

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