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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
October 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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
Fun doing this with Ben Davis and Ginosko. open.substack.com/pub/ginoskol...
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).
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Fun doing this with Ben Davis and Ginosko. open.substack.com/pub/ginoskol...
Thank you, Leslie Lindsay for this wonderful review of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre! hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/revi...
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.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Thank you, Leslie Lindsay for this wonderful review of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre! hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/revi...
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...
Interview with Matthew Davison and Alice LaPlante: The Lab Experiments in Writing Across Genre.
We Said, They Said. · Episode
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September 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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🪄
✨The Lab: Beliefs and Everyday Magic — A Generative Writing Session with Matthew Clark Davison & Alice LaPlante🪄
September 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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🪄
✨The Lab: Beliefs and Everyday Magic — A Generative Writing Session with Matthew Clark Davison & Alice LaPlante🪄
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“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.
James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil
Rigorous lessons are not mutually exclusive from culturally and politically relevant ones.
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August 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“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.
Join Alice and me Saturday, Sept. 6th from 8-10:30am PST
September 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Join Alice and me Saturday, Sept. 6th from 8-10:30am PST
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
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
“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…
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August 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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
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?
July 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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.
July 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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
#HybridWriting #GenreFluidity #FormFollowsFunction #WritingCraft #NarrativeExperimentation #LiteraryForm
July 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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
#HybridWriting #GenreFluidity #FormFollowsFunction #WritingCraft #NarrativeExperimentation #LiteraryForm
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▶️ 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.
An illuminating dialogue about hybrid literary forms.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
July 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
▶️ 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.
An illuminating dialogue about hybrid literary forms.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
📣 The Lab is Out Today
📣 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.
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July 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
📣 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...
July 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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...
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Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the power of writing into beauty.
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…
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July 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the power of writing into beauty.
The first sight of The Lab in the wild! Thank you Matt F. from Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago!
July 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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!
July 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We're so grateful to Toi Derricotte for endorsing The Lab!
"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...
July 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"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...
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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
July 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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!
July 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We're so grateful to Toi Derricotte for endorsing The Lab!