All Episodes

First Draft - Elizabeth Alexander

First Draft - Roberta Recchia

First Draft - James Salter

First Draft - Jess Row

First Draft - Richard Russo

First Draft - Michael Cunningham (Returns Again)

First Draft - Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Returns)

First Draft - Kevin Powers

First Draft - Laura Dave

First Draft - Emeline Atwood

First Draft - Emily Rapp Black

First Draft - Ben Fountain (Returns Again)

First Draft - Zinzi Clemmons

First Draft - Ruth Ozeki

First Draft - Emma Straub

First Draft - Lily King (Returns)

First Draft 12th Anniversary Best Of - Ross Gay

First Draft - Ramona Ausubel

First Draft - Hafeez Lakhani

First Draft - Tom Perrotta

First Draft - Jim Newton

First Draft 12th Anniversary Best Of - Michael Cunningham

First Draft - Allegra Goodman

First Draft - Rachel Khong

First Draft - Kate Schatz

First Draft - Camille Dungy

First Draft - Naeem Murr

First Draft 12th Anniversary Best Of - Ada Limón

First Draft - Andrea Mara

First Draft - Philip Schultz

First Draft - Tayari Jones

First Draft - Bret Anthony Johnston

First Draft 12th Anniversary Best Of - Sebastian Barry

First Draft - R.L. Maizes (Returns)

First Draft - David Guterson

First Draft - Ann Packer

First Draft - George Saunders (Back Again)

First Draft 12th Anniversary Best Of - Torrey Peters

First Draft - Daniyal Mueenuddin

First Draft - Ashley Shelby

First Draft - Benjamin Wood

First Draft - Marisa Silver (Returns)

First Draft - Devon O'Neil

First Draft 12th Anniversary Best Of - Michael Kleber Diggs

First Draft - Elizabeth McCracken (Returns 4th Time)

First Draft - Ruben Reyes Jr.

First Draft - Megha Majumdar

First Draft - Paula Saunders

First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best Of - Diane Seuss

First Draft - Tracy K. Smith (Returns)

First Draft - Stewart O'Nan

First Draft - Angela Flournoy

First Draft- Jonathan Parks-Ramage

First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best Of - Ben Okri

First Draft - Jaquira Diaz

First Draft - Peter Orner (Pete for the 5-Peat)

First Draft - Jane Hamilton

First Draft - Ada Limón (Returns Again)

First Draft - Jason Mott

First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best Of - Abby Geni

First Draft - Reginald Dwayne Betts

First Draft - Nini Berndt and Evie Bromiley

First Draft - Caleb Gayle

First Draft - Betsy Lerner

First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best of - Tracy K. Smith

First Draft - Rachel Cockerell

First Draft - Joy Harjo

First Draft - Princess Joy L. Perry

First Draft - Ed Park

First Draft - Torrey Peters

First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best of - Sue Monk Kidd

First Draft - Kristin Koval

First Draft - Robert Macfarlane

First Draft - Andrew Porter (returns)

First Draft - André Alexis

First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best of - Salar Abdoh

First Draft - Lori Ostlund

First Draft - Ethan Rutherford (Returns Again)

First Draft - Shelley Read

First Draft: Madeleine Thien

First Draft - Lauren Groff (Returns)

First Draft - Kate Folk

First Draft - Bob Johnson

First Draft - Lynn Steger Strong

First Draft - Vauhini Vara

First Draft - Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

First Draft - Lynne Tillman

First Draft - Colum McCann

First Draft - Karen Russell (Returns)

First Draft - Mai Der Vang

First Draft - Erika Krouse

First Draft - Sarah Gerard (returns again)

First Draft - Charlotte Wood (Returns)

First Draft - Paul Theroux

First Draft - Lidia Yuknavitch (Returns Again)

First Draft - Sarah Chihaya

First Draft - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

First Draft - Alan Shapiro

First Draft - David Wrobelwski

Paolo Bacigalupi

First Draft - Claire Messud and Amitava Kumar on Literary Friendship

First Draft - Boyce Upholt

Best of 2024 - Kevin Barry

First Draft - Amina Gautier (Returns)

Best of 2024 - Kiley Reid

First Draft - Simon Rich

Best of 2024 - Julia Alvarez

First Draft - Anna Noyes (Returns)

First Draft - Elizabeth Rosner

First Draft - Maggie Smith

First Draft - Edward Hirsch

First Draft: Megan Pinto

First Draft - Tracy O'Neill

First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns Yet Again)

First Draft - Edwidge Danticat (Returns)

First Draft - Elizabeth Strout (Returns Again)

First Draft - Richard Powers (Returns)

First Draft - Alan Townsend

First Draft: Natalie Goldberg

First Draft - Lorrie Moore

First Draft - Jessica Shattuck

First Draft - Kaliane Bradley

First Draft - Carl Phillips

First Draft - Jodi Picoult

First Draft - Abby Geni

First Draft - Jill Ciment (Returns)

First Draft - Kevin Barry (Returns)

First Draft - Amitava Kumar (Returns)

First Draft - Ada Limón (and friends)

First Draft - Tracy Chevalier

First Draft - Tommy Orange

First Draft - Lauren Camp

First Draft - Stacey D’Erasmo (Returns)

First Draft - Carvell Wallace

First Draft - Claire Messud (Returns Again)

First Draft - Edward Hamlin

First Draft - Adelle Waldman

First Draft - Sunjeev Sahota

First Draft - Steve Almond

First Draft - Anne Lamott

First Draft - Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Returns)

First Draft - Julia Alvarez

First Draft - Lily Brooks-Dalton

First Draft - Kiley Reid

First Draft - Debra Spark (Returns Again)

First Draft - Téa Obreht (Returns)

First Draft - DIane Seuss (Returns)

First Draft - Sloane Crosley

First Draft - Temim Fruchter

First Draft - Leslie Jamison (Returns Again)

First Draft - Margot Livesey (Returns)

First Draft - Kaveh Akbar

First Draft - Ilyon Woo

First Draft - Jill McCorkle

First Draft - Vanessa Chan

First Draft - Antoine Wilson

First Draft - Buzzy Jackson

First Draft - David James Duncan

First Draft - Paul Harding (Returns)

First Draft: Michael Cunningham (Returns)

First Draft - Salar Abdoh

First Draft - Alice McDermott (Returns Again)

First Draft - Ayana Mathis

First Draft - Edgar Kunz

First Draft - Tan Twan Eng

First Draft - Richard Deming

First Draft - Jenn Shapland

First Draft - Ben Fountain (Returns)

First Draft - Daniel Magariel

First Draft - Etaf Rum

First Draft - Edan Lepucki (Returns)

First Draft - James McBride

First Draft - Rachel Eliza Griffiths

First Draft - David van den Berg

First Draft - Roger Reeves

First Draft - Jenny Qi

First Draft - Jennifer Grotz

First Draft - Luis Alberto Urrea

First Draft - Hernan Diaz

First Draft - Alice Elliott Dark

First Draft - Stephen Buoro

First Draft - Elizabeth Graver

First Draft - Adrienne Brodeur (Returns)

First Draft - Michelle Brafman (Returns)

First Draft - TC Boyle

First Draft - T.J. Newman

First Draft - Sebastian Barry

First Draft - Mona Simpson

First Draft - Curtis Sittenfeld (Returns)

First Draft - Abraham Verghese

First Draft - Mai Nardone

First Draft - Ann Lauterbach

First Draft - Andrew Porter

First Draft - Cathleen Schine

First Draft - Clint Smith

First Draft - Robert Lopez

First Draft - Rebecca Makkai (Returns)

First Draft - Michelle Dowd

First Draft - Jai Chakrabarti

First Draft - Susan Griffin

First Draft - Matthew Salesses

First Draft - Kathryn Ma

First Draft - Katherine Standefer

First Draft - Peter Turchi

First Draft - Blair Braverman

FIrst Draft - Stephanie Feldman

First Draft - Jack Driscoll (Returns)

First Draft - Chris Belcher

First Draft - Peter Orner (Returns)

First Draft - Namwali Serpell

First Draft - Elizabeth Strout (Returns)

First Draft - Morowa Yejidé

First Draft - Elizabeth McCracken (Returns Again!)

First Draft - Omer Friedlander

First Draft - Ross Gay

First Draft - Tracy K. Smith

First Draft - Stacey D'Erasmo

First Draft - George Saunders (Returns Again)

First Draft - Andrea Barrett

First Draft - Kevin McIlvoy (In Memory)

First Draft - Katie Runde

First Draft - Jonathan Escoffery

First Draft - Jill Bialosky

First Draft - Carlos Allende

First Draft - Casey Parks

First Draft - Eric Nguyen

First Draft - Jamil Jan Kochai

First Draft - Chinelo Okparanta

First Draft - James Longenbach (New Edit)

First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns!)

First Draft - Lidia Yuknavitch (Returns)

First Draft - Ben Winters

First Draft - Zeina Hashem Beck

First Draft - Tsering Yangzom Lama

First Draft - Nathanial White

First Draft - Lawrence Jackson

First Draft - Soon Wiley

First Draft - NoViolet Bulawayo

First Draft - Akwaeke Emezi

First Draft - Jeffrey Yang

First Draft - Ada Limón (returns)

First Draft - Jacinda Townsend

First Draft - Keith O'Brien

First Draft - Aimee Bender

First Draft - Rebecca Kauffman

First Draft - Sarah Manguso (Returns!)

First Draft - Douglas Stuart

First Draft - Jacqueline Mitchard

First Draft - Evie Wyld

First Draft - Lan Samantha Chang

First Draft - Thrity Umrigar

First Draft - Susan Orlean (Returns)

First Draft - Charlotte Wood

First Draft - Anahid Nersessian

First Draft - Steven Schwartz (Returns)

First Draft - Peter Ho Davies (Returns)

First Draft - Tom Bissell

First Draft - Michael Bazzett

First Draft - Jean Hanff Korelitz

First Draft - Alice McDermott (Returns Again!)

First Draft - Best of 2021 Ben Okri

First Draft - Best of 2021 George Saunders

First Draft - Best of 2021 Michael Kleber-Diggs

First Draft - Best of 2021 Diane Seuss

First Draft - EJ Levy

First Draft - Nawaaz Ahmed

First Draft - Kalani Pickhart

First Draft - Rebecca Solnit

First Draft - Keisha N. Blain

First Draft - Lauren Groff (Returns)

First Draft - Richard Powers

First Draft - Annie Murphy Paul

First Draft - Peter Orner (Returns!)

First Draft - Grant Faulkner

First Draft - Kevin McIlvoy (Returns Yet Again!)

First Draft - Robert Olen Butler

First Draft - Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

First Draft - Christine Mangan

First Draft - Joshua Henkin

First Draft - Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

First Draft - S. Kirk Walsh

First Draft - Tobey Pearl

First Draft - Michael Kleber-Diggs

First Draft - Steven Pressfield

First Draft - Marisa Silver

First Draft - Justin Jannise

First Draft - Diane Seuss

First Draft - Gabriela Garcia

First Draft - Ethan Rutherford (Returns)

First Draft - Imbolo Mbue

First Draft - Anna North

First Draft - Layla AlAmmar

First Draft - Elizabeth McCracken (Returns!)

Viet Thanh Nguyen (Returns!)

First Draft - Nalini Singh

First Draft - Chang-rae Lee

First Draft - Lidia Yuknavitch

First Draft - Carol Edgarian

First Draft - Dantiel Moniz

First Draft - Priyanka Champaneri

First Draft - Alan Lightman (Returns)

First Draft - George Saunders (Returns)

First Draft - Natalie West

First Draft - Eley Williams

First Draft - Te-Ping Chen

First Draft - Ben Okri

First Draft - Mateo Askaripour

First Draft - Peter Ho Davies

First Draft - Mark Wunderlich

First Draft - Jamie Harrison

First Draft - Emma Glass

First Draft - Kwame Alexander

First Draft - Danielle Evans

First Draft - Cynan Jones

First Draft - Jonathan Lethem

First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns!)

First Draft - Yishai Sarid

First Draft - Susan Minot

First Draft - Bryan Washington

First Draft - Ken Bonert

First Draft - Bill Clegg (Returns!)

First Draft - Claire Messud

First Draft - Debra Spark

First Draft - Rebecca Watson

First Draft - David Szalay

First Draft - Peter Geye

First Draft - Cherie Dimaline

First Draft - Margot Livesey

First Draft - R.L. Maizes

First Draft - Benjamin Nugent

First Draft - Ursula Heigi

First Draft - Souvankham Thammavongsa

First Draft - Michelle Bowdler

First Draft - Sejal Shah

First Draft - Anne Enright

First Draft - TaraShea Nesbit

First Draft - Marie Mutsuki Mockett

First Draft - Mary South

First Draft - Lori Gottlieb

First Draft - Vanessa Hua

First Draft - Jane Hirshfield

First Draft - Sue Monk Kidd

First Draft - Emily Nemens

First Draft - Ann Napolitano

First Draft - Anna Solomon

First Draft - Carolyn Forché

First Draft - Ander Monson

First Draft - Sahar Mustafah

First Draft - Julian Jarboe

First Draft - Katrin Schumann

First Draft - Deb Olin Unferth

First Draft - P. Carl

First Draft - Chuck Palahniuk

First Draft - Kevin Wilson

First Draft - Jenny Offill

First Draft - Tishani Doshi

First Draft - Julia Phillips

First Draft - Jill Ciment

First Draft - Luke Geddes

First Draft - Ethan Rutherford

First Draft - Isabel Allende

First Draft - Walter Mosley

First Draft - Jeannie Vanasco

First Draft - Adrienne Brodeur

First Draft - Etgar Keret

First Draft- David Quammen

First Draft - Deborah Levy

First Draft - Leslie Jamison

First Draft - Amitav Ghosh

First Draft - Nick Flynn

First Draft - Kimi Eisele

First Draft - Alexandra Fuller

First Draft - Terry Tempest Williams

First Draft - Petina Gappah

First Draft - Alix Ohlin

First Draft - Nathaniel Popkin

First Draft - Téa Obreht

First Draft - Caitlin Horrocks

First Draft - Helen Phillips

First Draft - Katie Arnold

First Draft - Kevin McIlvoy

First Draft - Dinaw Mengestu

First Draft - Peg Alford Pursell

First Draft - Rachel Kushner

First Draft - Karen Russell

First Draft - Jennifer DuBois two

First Draft - Emily Bernard

First Draft - Christopher Castellani two

First Draft - Laila Lalami

First Draft: George Hodgman

First Draft - Tina Chang

First Draft - Devi Laskar

First Draft - Rachel Howard

First Draft: Miriam Toews

First Draft - Meg Wolitzer

First Draft - Joanne Ramos

First Draft - Nell Freudenberger

First Draft - Molly Dektar

First Draft - CJ Hauser

First Draft - Erika Meitner

First Draft - Cara Robertson

First Draft - David Means

First Draft - Susan Orlean

First Draft - Jessica Soffer

First Draft - Sophie Mackintosh

First Draft - Eva Hagberg Fisher

First Draft - Pam Houston

First Draft - Katrin Schumann

First Draft - Madhuri Vijay

First Draft - Esmé Weijun Wang

First Draft - Merritt Tierce

First Draft - Juliet Lapidos

First Draft - Christy Stillwell

First Draft - Tommy Caldwell

First Draft - Stuart Dybek

First Draft - Yiyun Li

First Draft - Tom Barbash

First Draft - Leif Enger

First Draft - RO Kwon

First Draft - Cai Emmons

First Draft - Sarah Stone

First Draft - Karen Bender

First Draft - Christina Dalcher

First Draft - Daniel Mason

First Draft - Beth Macy

First Draft - Matthew Thomas

First Draft - Ben Marcus

First Draft - Bernice McFadden

First Draft - Amitava Kumar

First Draft - Hannah Tinti

First Draft - Elissa Schappel

First Draft - Gary Shteyngart

First Draft - Francine Prose

First Draft: Kirstin Valdez Quade

First Draft - Joe Mungo Reed

First Draft - Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin

First Draft - Hannah Pittard

First Draft - Chuck Palahniuk

First Draft - Lydia Millet

First Draft - James Wood

First Draft - AM Homes

First Draft - Howard Norman

First Draft - J. Courtney Sullivan

First Draft - David Grann

First Draft - Tom Rachman

First Draft - Donna Masini

First Draft - Chris Offutt

First Draft - Tim Kreider

First Draft - Kevin Powers

First Draft - Curtis Sittenfeld

First Draft - Sarah Henstra

First Draft - Robert Kurson

First Draft - Anna Quindlen

First Draft - Yang Huang

First Draft - Hermione Hoby

First Draft - Zachary Lazar

First Draft - Tara Westover

First Draft - Jenny Offill

First Draft - Steven Schwartz

First Draft - Karen Thompson Walker

First Draft - Jamie Quatro

First Draft - Elizabeth Strout

First Draft - Boris Fishman

First Draft - Elliot Ackerman

First Draft - Kate Manne

First Draft - Joan Silber

Firsr Draft - Alice McDermott 2

First Draft - George Saunders

First Draft - James Han Mattson

First Draft - Jennifer Egan

First Draft - James Longenbach

First Draft - Matthew Weiner

First Draft - Carmen Maria Machado

First Draft - Bruce Machart

First Draft - David Litt

First Draft - Lu Spinney

First Draft - Eleanor Henderson

First Draft - Jon McGregor

First Draft - Kevin McIlvoy

First Draft - Brendan Mathews

First Draft - Josh Weil

First Draft - Laura van den Berg

First Draft - Nathan Englander

First Draft - Lily Tuck

First Draft - Paolo Giordano

First Draft - Claire Messud

First Draft - Paul Yoon

First Draft - Andrew Sean Greer

First Draft - Dorit Rabinyan

First Draft - Claire Dederer

First Draft - Maile Meloy

First Draft - Leila Aboulela

First Draft - Nina McConigley

First Draft - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

First Draft - Dani Shapiro

First Draft - Megan Abbott

First Draft - Chavisa Woods

First Draft - Jesse Goolsby

First Draft - Max Winter

First Draft - Peter Heller

First Draft - Viet Thanh Nguyen

First Draft - Sarah Gerard

First Draft - Shulem Deen

First Draft - Karen Joy Fowler

First Draft - Jim Shepard

First Draft - Douglas Preston

First Draft - Melissa Febos

First Draft - Dan Chaon

First Draft - Deborah Willis

First Draft - Katie Kitamura

First Draft - Lily King

First Draft - Sarah Manguso

First Draft - Anuk Arudpragasam

First Draft - Marcy Dermansky

First Draft - Melanie Finn

First Draft - Joshua Mohr

First Draft - Peter Orner

First Draft - Gerrard Conley

First Draft - Akhil Sharma

First Draft - Benjamin Percy

First Draft - Anuradha Roy

First Draft - Randa Jarrar

First Draft - Emily Witt

First Draft - Teddy Wayne

First Draft - Robert Bausch

First Draft - Patrick Ryan

First Draft - Jane Smiley

First Draft - Nicole Dennis-Benn

First Draft - Kevin Barry

First Draft - Leigh Stein

First Draft - John Freeman

First Draft - Lev Grossman

First Draft - Ramona Ausubel

First Draft - Debra Spark

First Draft - Jennifer duBois

First Draft - Jennifer Haigh

First Draft - Helen Schulman

First Draft - Kim Addonizio

First Draft - Anna Noyes

First Draft - Anna Solomon

First Draft - Charles Bock

First Draft - Ethan Canin

First Draft - Joshua Ferris

First Draft - Lauren Holmes

First Draft - Idra Novey

First Draft - Saeed Jones

First Draft - Dana Spiotta

First Draft - Dominic Smith

First Draft - Antonya Nelson

First Draft - Garth Greenwell

First Draft - A. Igoni Barrett

First Draft - Rob Spillman

First Draft - James Hannaham

First Draft - Rebecca Makkai

First Draft - Emily St. John Mandel

First Draft - Paul Lisicky

First Draft - Ada Limón

First Draft - Mary Doria Russell

First Draft - Christopher Castellani

First Draft - Rachel Cantor

First Draft - Sarah Gerard

First Draft - Edan Lepucki

First Draft - Adam Johnson

First Draft - Elizabeth McCracken

First Draft - Jess Walter

First Draft - Sunil Yapa

First Draft - Lauren Groff

First Draft - Geraldine Brooks

First Draft - Paul Harding

First Draft - Anthony Marra

First Draft - Jack Driscoll

First Draft - Celeste Ng

First Draft - Dani Shapiro

First Draft - Liam Callanan

First Draft - Ben Fountain

First Draft - Julia Fierro

First Draft - Michelle Brafman

First Draft - Ann Patchett

First Draft - Bill Clegg

First Draft - Vanessa Garcia

First Draft: Edwidge Danticat

First Draft: Charles Baxter

First Draft: Leslie Jamison

First Draft: Elliott Holt

First Draft: Bonnie Jo Campbell

First Draft: Alan Lightman

First Draft: Molly Antopol

First Draft: Maria Semple

First Draft: Russell Banks

First Draft: Michael Cunningham

First Draft: Anthony Doerr

First Draft: Elizabeth Gilbert

First Draft: Alice McDermott