By Alex Jones and Adil Alvi Advice on avoiding condescension, getting in the reader’s head, and helping young thinkers produce their...

Ahh, the classics. Every genre has its own issues, its own tropes and cliches. Romance novels have meet-cutes, fantasy novels have...

Prior to the thrill of receiving their Submission Manager account and their very first submission, all Polyphony Lit editors undergo a...

It’s a conundrum that all editors face at some point – how can you improve your editing skills when you don’t know what your strengths...

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." ~W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" Scenario #1: Your internal notes are essentially the same...

By Grace Yue Editing others’ work can be a humbling experience. You look at his or her writing and think, I could never write anything as...

by Ore Amosu A Polyphony editor's worst nightmare: not knowing what to comment. You know the feeling you have when you can’t open a...

by Anya Chabria, Emily Cho, Jodie Meng, Jennifer Wang, and Maggie Eames Even the best writers end up staring at the blank white page and...