writing Science fiction author Dan Simmons, RIP Séamus Bellamy

DC Comics DC Comics cancels Red Hood due to writer's comments about Charlie Kirk Séamus Bellamy

poetry William S. Burroughs on the American Dream (video) David Pescovitz

science fiction Clarion Writer's Workshop Fundraiser offers signed books, Tuckerizations, and more Thom Dunn

science fiction William Gibson on how he coined the word "cyberspace" (video) David Pescovitz

labor Writers are out for the summer, and the strike is hitting home Harry Hannigan

star wars Season 2 of Andor to continue production without writers due to strike Thom Dunn

protests Genius picket signs from the Hollywood writers' strike David Pescovitz

fake news A romance author allegedly faked her own suicide to boost book sales Thom Dunn

Technology Cory Doctorow interviewed about cyberpunk and surveillance capitalism in The New Yorker David Pescovitz

Comics Oscar Issac enters the world of comics Devin Nealy

video games WRITE 'N' FIGHT is a new video game where famous authors punch each other Thom Dunn

alcohol Why many writers drink David Pescovitz

writing Tokyo's new Manuscript Writing Cafe demands customers make progress toward their writerly goals David Pescovitz

writing Help this "Ghost Class" of speculative fiction writers get to the Clarion Writer's Workshop Thom Dunn

writing Read Joan Didion's entire "lost" university commencement address from 1975 David Pescovitz

cool Cool died with Joan Didion Rob Beschizza

books Joan Didion, author and pioneering "New Journalist," RIP David Pescovitz

writers The letter that William Burroughs wrote Truman Capote, cursing his career and taking back his talent Gareth Branwyn

science fiction Help the Alpha Young Writers Workshop for its 20th anniversary Thom Dunn