Follow Awe: Deb Olin Unferth on Writing Speculative Fiction

By Deb Olin UnferthJune 18, 2026

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Most of my books have elements of surrealism or sci-fi or the fantastic—the passenger pigeons mysteriously return, or a character has the power of knowing when people will die—but I

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