The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre

By Alice LaPlante and Matthew Clark Davison

Writers don't need formulas; they need encouragement to take risks. The Lab offers a bold, hands-on approach, urging writers to embrace uncertainty, experiment with form, and investigate what haunts them.

The Lab features ten chapters and ninety exercises challenging writers to play with fiction, memoir, and poetry--or push toward hybrid or entirely new forms.

This is a book for those ready to dig deep and write fearlessly.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393866688
• ISBN13: 9780393866681
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 496 Pages