Five Steps to Figure Out What You Already Know About Writing | Marie Cloutier

"Be an ambitious emerging writer who wants to try something new. Take a workshop about writing about writing, a new-to-you subject you’re interested in exploring..."

Baring the Device: About

As the editors of The Gravity of the Thing aim to publish writing that defamiliarizes, so do we aim to defamiliarize conventional editing, publishing, and creative models. Follow our Baring the Device column to learn about various writing, editing, and publishing practices.

The Other Side of the Thing | Dan Chilton

"We need to defamiliarize our processes and our ideas. Throw some metaphorical wrenches into the machinery just to see what happens..." Dan Chilton unpacks "the pressures of literary realism on those approaching publishing."

Baring the Device: Submissions

This chapter of Baring the Device focuses on the basic submission process. When a writer seeks readership, there are a number of ways to approach publication thoughtfully and effectively.

Abstract Writing | David Stromberg

"Rigor is a word that’s used more often in theoretical mathematics than in the creative arts. It has to do with the process of proving something as seemingly simple as the idea that 1 + 1 = 2..."

Baring the Device: After Acceptances

In this edition of Baring the Device, our editors bare the common editorial practices that come into play after a submission is accepted for publication. On the happy day that a writer receives an acceptance letter, there are a few ways a writer can expect to engage with an editor.