We had quite a few questions that were deemed off-topic because they asked about specific subjects relevant to the plot of someone's story, and not to writing in general. I remember a question about "what could cause a lockdown of a nuclear power plant", a question how linguistics of an alien s...

A biography of J. D. Salinger describes his eventually successful efforts to publish his short stories in The New Yorker, which is described as a literature Olympus of that time. Is there an equivalent of such a magazine today? Perhaps it is the same magazine?

I and two other students are writing a proposal to a corporation to donate some equipment to my school. When I put our names under the title of the proposal, is there a particular order they should go in, e.g alphabetical or seniority-based?