Reading Deeply

How Writers Can Use Headings to Pace Their Stories

The Pacing of Headings in Rainbow Rowell’s short…

Magic in a Contemporary Setting

Roald Dahl’s Matilda

Writing the Antagonist with Layers of Evil

Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time

Using Lists to Convey the State of Grief

In Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking

Lessons on Structure

Jane Yolen’s How Do Dinosaurs… series

Writing Stages of Grief for Children

Edith Hemingway’s Road to Tater Hill

Reading Deeply Submission Guidelines

How to Submit to Reading Deeply

What we’re Looking for?

A Prime Education: Writing Contrasting Characters

Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

This Side of Narrative Voice

A Close Reading of Rachel Harper’s This Side of Providence