That Money Would Come In Handy About Now,Bernie........

Learning About Writing from A Doll Maker HEXTIAN makes dolls. Writers make poems, stories, essays. What can we learn from each other?

I loved writing this: Learning About Writing from A Doll Maker open.substack.com/pub/thelabcr...

Why do the stories we can’t let go of—the ones we return to again and again—refuse to fit inside a single emotion? Love, in life and on the page, rarely arrives alone. It tangles with longing, contradiction, rage, grief, humor, and tenderness. Join us on 1/10 & ✍🏼: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lab-on...

Absolutely THRILLED to be partnering with Black Mountain Institute and the wonderful Charlie Joy for this FREE 3-hour live workshop in Las Vegas! Sign up here: buff.ly/SWmGkyl #HybridWriting #GenreFluidity #FormFollowsFunction #WritingCraft #NarrativeExperimentation #LiteraryForm #CrossGenre

The Writing Life... with Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante In this edition, Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante discuss their new collaborative craft book, The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre (W.W. Norton, 2025).

Fun doing this with Ben Davis and Ginosko. open.substack.com/pub/ginoskol...

REVIEW: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | Hippocampus Magazine [The Lab by Matthew Clark Davison & Alice LaPlante] is a hearty reference guide, a study in craft, a pep talk, an instructional manual ... for all writers of all levels.

Thank you, Leslie Lindsay for this wonderful review of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre! hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/revi...

Interview with Matthew Davison and Alice LaPlante: The Lab Experiments in Writing Across Genre. We Said, They Said. · Episode

Thank you so much to Mike and Helen for having on We Said, They Said to talk about The Lab. open.spotify.com/episode/3CkQ...

Thanks to all who came to Alice LaPlante's and my first online session of The Lab Experiments in Working Across Genre Online! Save the date for our 2nd. 10/4 from 8am-10:30am PST.

✨The Lab: Beliefs and Everyday Magic — A Generative Writing Session with Matthew Clark Davison & Alice LaPlante🪄

James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil Rigorous lessons are not mutually exclusive from culturally and politically relevant ones.

“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.

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Join Alice and me Saturday, Sept. 6th from 8-10:30am PST

“Write What’s Not Fair”: On Obsession, Paradox, and Permission in the Classroom Passionate student writers rarely lack ideas, but instructors can help them narrow those ideas down by choosing to write what makes them feel the most. Authors Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPla…

Excited to share a new Norton Learning Blog piece about The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre, co-authored with Alice LaPlante.
We talk about what can happen when writers begin with something unfinished—something “not fair”—and stay inside the paradox, writing from both the wound and the bond

What are you favorite novels that are literary and horror, and/or speculative, and/or Queer, and/or fantasy, and/or underrepresented voices?

one of the original Labbers (people who took that class the book is partially rooted in) with Alice’s and my work then a pic of me in Zach’s tee. He’s also a brilliant writer with a brilliant memoir.

Over the years of working on the book, Alice and I read so many LitHub articles by incredible writers to help inform our ideas and experiments. WE LOVE LITHUB! lithub.com/on-hybrid-wr...

#HybridWriting #GenreFluidity #FormFollowsFunction #WritingCraft #NarrativeExperimentation #LiteraryForm

In the latest episode of the Otherppl with Brad Listi podcast, a conversation with Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante, co-authors of THE LAB: EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING ACROSS GENRE (W. W. Norton). The conversation centers on hybrid literary forms and what they bring to both writer and reader. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

▶️ NOW PLAYING: A new Craftwork episode featuring @matthewcdavison.bsky.social & Alice LaPlante, co-authors of THE LAB: EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING ACROSS GENRE (@wwnorton.com).

An illuminating dialogue about hybrid literary forms.

🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.

📣 The Lab is Out Today 📝 A book shaped by the writers who pushed us to rethink what creative writing can be. If you're in SF tonight, come celebrate.

📣 The Lab is Out Today

Thank you so much Brad Listi and otherppl @otherppl.podcast for having Alice and me on the show to discuss Hybrid Writing and The Lab, Experiments in Writing Across Genre, our book that launches Tuesday with W.W. Norton. The convo was a delight. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force This is part four of a five-part series on the craft of writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante. True beauty in literature isn’t ornamental. It isn’t a lyrical flourish on the surface o…

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the power of writing into beauty.

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thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this series! Alice LaPlante and I had so much fun writing about The Lab.

The first sight of The Lab in the wild! Thank you Matt F. from Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago!

We're so grateful to Toi Derricotte for endorsing The Lab!

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"True beauty in literature isn’t ornamenta...It’s what Sarah Lewis, in The Rise, calls “aesthetic force”—a quality that stuns, alters, destabilizes, and lodges itself in our memory THANK YOU to LitHub for running our series! lithub.com/on-beauty-an...

Text reads: Campfire stories & other ghostly narratives “Grotto Nights” at the San Francisco Public Library Tuesday, July 29, 6 p.m. “The Page” room 100 Larkin St., SF

Just got off a call with these two amazing writers and this event is going to be SO FUN, y'all. Please come. @sezindevikoehler.bsky.social

We're so grateful to Toi Derricotte for endorsing The Lab!