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How to Give a Reading Without Puking & Dying

How to Give a Reading Without Puking & Dying

Giving a reading can be incredibly daunting, especially if you’re not a fan of public speaking, which most people aren’t. But your work deserves to be heard, and you can give an amazing reading, even if you’ve never done one before.

How to Properly Format Your Prose Submission

How to Properly Format Your Prose Submission

Proper formatting will not only make your work look more professional, but it will also make it easier to read for editors and readers who are reviewing your work.

4 Mistakes You’re Making in Your Cover Letter

4 Mistakes You’re Making in Your Cover Letter

Although no two cover letters are exactly alike, there are certain mistakes that seem to surface over and over again.

A Personal Rejection from Carve: The 7 Stages of Grief

A Personal Rejection from Carve: The 7 Stages of Grief

Some rejections are harder to shake, often because we were that close to an acceptance.

Review: The Art of Perspective by Christopher Castellani

Review: The Art of Perspective by Christopher Castellani

“There is no more important decision the writer makes than who tells the story..."

4 Ways I Trick Myself into Writing (That Might Work for You Too)

4 Ways I Trick Myself into Writing (That Might Work for You Too)

Let’s be honest: Writing is hard. And because of that, it can sometimes be a struggle to make ourselves do it.

Powers and Perils of Writing in Third Person

Powers and Perils of Writing in Third Person

Writing in third person can be both liberating and overwhelming. Here's how you can leverage this freedom (and not be intimidated by it).

Serial - Season 2, Episodes 9 & 10

Serial - Season 2, Episodes 9 & 10

To follow a great story, we need to eat our kale.

Interview with our New Managing Editor, Anna Zumbahlen

Interview with our New Managing Editor, Anna Zumbahlen

Anna Zumbahlen has been promoted to Managing Editor from the Carve reading committee.

How to Write Killer Endings

How to Write Killer Endings

The ending of a story should feel unexpectedly inevitable.

Five (±New Year's) Resolutions for Writers

Five (±New Year's) Resolutions for Writers

Whether you read this in January or July, the following resolutions for writers are a combination of things I strive for personally and also encourage others to do.

The Perks and Pitfalls of Writing in First Person

The Perks and Pitfalls of Writing in First Person

What do we gain and what are we giving up when using that ever-enticing "I" pronoun.

3 Rules to Writing Commanding Sex Scenes

3 Rules to Writing Commanding Sex Scenes

We all know how it's done. We don’t need you to tell us that he put his member in her girl-cave and did some thrusting.

Writers Need Community (Here's How to Get Some)

Writers Need Community (Here's How to Get Some)

Despite the limitations to living in a less-than literary locale, I’ve found some practical ways to cobble together a writing community on my own.

You Think Writing Is Not A Job? Think again.

You Think Writing Is Not A Job? Think again.

I want to say – boldly and with absolutely no hesitation – that writing is so a job and a necessary one at that.

You, Dear Writer, Are Not the Narrator

You, Dear Writer, Are Not the Narrator

Although you, the writer, are indeed doing the writing, your narrator is the one telling the story. And that narrator is not you.

The Review Review's Round Table

The Review Review's Round Table

The Review Review invited our fearless editor, Matthew Limpede, to a roundtable interview to talk shop, along with RW Spryszak (Thrice Fiction) and Matt Potter (Pure Slush).

Jessica Barksdale Inclan

Jessica Barksdale Inclan

Jessica Barksdale is a best-selling author with over a dozen books under her belt. How does she do it?

Mistakes Writers Make When Submitting to Literary Magazines

Mistakes Writers Make When Submitting to Literary Magazines

Are you guilty of making one of these mistakes?

The Most Important Writing Advice

The Most Important Writing Advice

I am actually going to give you the most important writing advice you will ever receive. No joke.

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