Write or Die Magazine

Brittany Ackerman interviews Sam Heaps about fanning the flames of purpose, claustrophobic seduction, the malleability of memory, and their novella ‘The Living god’ Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/author-intervi…

Shelby Hinte interviews @kevinmkearney about work in the time of AI, being more than your job, and his new novel ‘Freelance’ 🚙 Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/author-intervi…

Claire Polders @clairepolders on how everything we write is in conversation with everything we’ve ever read. Read “Dear Samantha Hunt: An Open Letter” here ↓ writeordiemag.com/essays/dear-sa…

Brittany Ackerman interviews @cora on navigating connection and disconnection, capturing millennial life and information overload, the art of presence, and her debut novella ‘Information Age’🤳 Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/author-intervi…

Nirica Srinivasan interviews Issa Quincy on memory as mutation, the spaces between, learning through editing, and his debut novel ‘Absence’ 🕳️ Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/author-intervi…

Marianne Janack's essay "Writing and Remembering" on memory, forgetting, and truth. Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/essays/writing…

This Writer Diary represents a week in Laura Stanfill’s life, where she's on deadline with a developmental edit for her third book, The Neighborhood Dames. Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/features/-writ…

Jessica Bao interviews @sarahaziza1 about the nature of silence, archives of love, Palestine, and her hybrid memoir ‘The Hollow Half’ 📚 Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/author-intervi…

Read “Holding Her Breath” by Ian Priestley, part of our issue Threshold Reckoning, here 🐚 ↓ writeordiemag.com/threshold-reck…

Read two essays by Alicia Tan — “I didn’t expect him on my birthday” and “True Mirror,” part of our issue Threshold Reckoning, here 🪞 ↓ writeordiemag.com/threshold-reck…

This diary captures a whirlwind week in Samantha Mann's life—balancing the excitement of launching her debut Dyke Delusions with the pressures of promotion, the vulnerability of being visible, and the chaos of parenting two young kids. Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/features/write…

Books we can’t wait to read in July📚 Featuring — @xbennyboo @ChloeMHowarth @cora @hannahpittard @prepartynap @siennaxliu @RaxKingIsDead and more! List by Kim Narby ✨ Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/features/19-bo…

Read “Day One, or Notes on Grace” by Keegan Lawler, part of our issue Threshold Reckoning, here ✨ ↓ writeordiemag.com/threshold-reck…

Read “Sitting Duck” by Alia Spartz, part of our issue Threshold Reckoning, here 🦆 ↓ writeordiemag.com/threshold-reck…

One week left to submit for Write Or Die's first ever fiction contest! Submissions close July 1st. Submit! Submit! Submit! <3 writeordiemagazine.submittable.com/submit/326253/…

ISSUE DROP! 🧡  We are so excited to share our third themed issue, Threshold Reckoning 🌀Thank you to everyone who submitted, and our guest editor, Amy Lin ✨ Read the essays here ↓ writeordiemag.com/issue-3-thresh…

For those of you that haven't fallen into the cult of the closer-than-usual mother-daughter relationships depicted in film and television, this essay by @sarahlynwrites is for you. Read "Gilmore Girls, Grey Gardens, and the Mother Wound" here ↓ writeordiemag.com/essays/gilmore…

Corinne Cordasco-Pak interviews @anchangjoon1 on imagined liminal spaces, the art of the short story ending, capitalism as the locus of horror, and his debut short story collection 'God-Disease' 🚪 Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/author-intervi…

Adrie Rose on chronic illness, invisible disability, and the impossibility of writing what she needs to write. Read "To Be Irrefutable" here ↓ writeordiemag.com/essays/to-be-i…

Danielle Altman interviews Jessamyn Violet on the future of sex, genre mashups, Los Angeles as inspiration, and her novel 'Venice Peach' 🍑 Read here ↓ writeordiemag.com/author-intervi…