An American writer travels to Sophia where he meets a famous poetess. He falls in love with her and her attitude.

Ruthie, an experienced writer, reflects on the scholarship opportunity that set her career in motion.

A rejected author ponders his writing abilities and lonely existence as he experiences his monotonous daily life. After one of his stories is rejected yet again, he receives a mysterious letter regarding the unpublished story that offers new hope.

A famous novelist drugs and kidnaps his ex-wife and former protégé. He attempts to murder her and frame another of his former protégés, a man he believes she is sleeping with.

A writer grapples with the suicide of her longtime friend and mentor.

Upon returning to Paris after a decade-long hiatus wandering the French countryside and writing an epic, a poet encounters an enigmatic young woman who believes he is a god and wants to be his disciple,

An unassuming attendee of Gertrude Stein’s famed Paris salon reflects on his time as a writer. Twenty years after Stein’s passing, he realizes the profound truths of her life, art, and legacy.

Curious about a poet incarcerated for horrible crimes, a woman tries to get closer to poetry—and to him.

An older man meets with various friends and his ex-wife in New York City, where he has come after his fourth wife runs off with a poet.

A Vietnamese-Australian writer at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop receives a visit from his estranged father. With his final story due in a few days, he looks to his father’s life for inspiration.