Take Qwiklit’s 100-Day Writing Challenge, Now!
At Qwiklit, we understand the challenges of being a good writer. While you may have had that flash of poetic brilliance one time ten years ago, it has since been […]
10 Writers Who Use Stream of Consciousness Better than Anybody Else
By May Huang A narrative technique that has perplexed and fascinated readers for centuries, the stream of consciousness technique has been used by many writers to trace the seamless (and […]
How to Write like John Donne
John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps one of the most famous “Renaissance Men”. Born in London, the apple did not fall too far from the tree, so to speak. After struggling […]
8 Reasons Why Social Media Is Decimating Art and Literature
By Phil James A couple of weeks ago, I came across an article that claimed that a grade-school poem was perhaps “the greatest poem written so far in the 21st […]
Top 10 Authors Who Ignored The Basic Rules of Punctuation
By May Huang While the majority of sentences in published texts (including this article) depend on punctuation to make sense, the literary world is nonetheless no stranger to great writers […]
How New Television is Succeeding With a Very Old Method
by Phil James The so-called golden age of television is benefitting from a number of engaging, well-written shows that are undoubtedly entertaining. But what you may not know is that […]
Performativity and the Feminine Warrior: The Case for Feminism in Game of Thrones
by Elizabeth DiEmanuele and Emily Groleau Despite its penchant for gratuitous nudity and sex, is HBO’s Game of Thrones rejecting our traditional understanding of the male hero? We see in […]
How To Write like William Faulkner
As one of the most moving but difficult writers in the American canon, William Faulkner has been both admired and maligned by its readers. Nevertheless, there so much to learn […]
5 Great Literary Trilogies
By Rebecca Overall Despite the mega-success of works like Stieg Larsson’s popular “Millenium Trilogy,” there has been some recent indication that the trilogy trend we’ve been seeing in literary fiction […]
7 Great Resources for Budding Writers
Writing is difficult. There’s no doubt about it. Honing one’s craft takes years, if not decades, and even then, writers still have to own up to the tyrannical red pen […]
Qwiklit’s Guide to 20th Century Poetry
The twentieth century changed literature in ways many could never imagine. Everything from literature, to theater and, of course, poetry, shifted from traditional forms to newer, challenging methods of expression. […]
How to Write like Ernest Hemingway
1. Use simple language and simple sentences. Consider the opening lines of A Farewell to Arms: “In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village […]
20 Works of Historical Fiction You Should Read Right Now
Historical fiction is not necessarily a “new” genre, but many of the authors below have painstakingly recreated the past through years of academic and on-location research. As a window into […]
25 Contemporary British Novels You Should Read Right Now
QwikLit for iPhoneShort stories, poetry and nonfiction.View in the App Store ↗ For all the praise given to the Austens’ and Dickens’ of Britain’s past, a relatively small amount of […]
25 Contemporary American Novels You Should Read Right Now
By Elizabeth DiEmanuele Contemporary American literature is subversive. It contains an element of the surreal, bizarre names, plots and consistent, biting commentary. Primarily postmodernist, these works are inherently distrustful. They not […]
Slavoj Žižek’s New Movie is Great (and Kind of Important)
by Phil James Slavoj Žižek is a one-of-a-kind celebrity. Even in the most esoteric academic circles, It is rare in this day and age that a literary and psychoanalytic theorist gets […]