The Word Factory’s Substack

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Where writers teach writers: the friendliest creative writing space around. Come and join Dr Lily Dunn and Zoe Gilbert in this creative experimental space: observations, hypotheses, experiments, chemical reactions. A safe space space to experiment.

Poems, features & other treats from The Little Review, the pocket magazine for anyone interested in poetry.

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

Writing wisdom, advice and encouragement for every day of the year.

Field notes from a 50,000-mile drive across the US. Book is on the way. Consider this the trailer