
Dear Writer
Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
Maggie Smith(Author)
Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 2025
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-9821-7084-4 (ISBN)
Description
"Drawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Each element is explored through short, inspiring, and craft-focused essays, followed by generative writing prompts"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
364 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9821-7084-4 (9781982170844)
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04/2025
Washington Square Press
€14.83
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Person
Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including A Suit or a Suitcase, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. She is the host of The Slowdown. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.