Essays on writing craft and the writing life are a great opportunity for you to get noticed—and published.

You have the raw materials of a story or the start of an idea. But how can you turn information into artful narrative? By exploring the craft of the literary list, you’ll find the moments of surprise and epiphany that turn bare facts into powerful art.

“Sometimes it’s not enough simply to peer intently into your own soul. Sometimes you have to look out the window and see the world in all its complicated glory.” ~ Philip Gerard, The Art of Creative Research: A Field Guide for Writers.

When you understand the purpose of your story, you can choose the best perspective to bring it to life.

Writers are often searching for their “voice” on the page. But in good writing, especially in memoir, writers balance multiple voices to tell their stories.

Strong characters reveal just enough backstory. How much should you reveal about a character’s history?

Traditional publishing is already competitive. Stop self-sabotaging and get your best work out there.

Fun, flexible, and highly marketable, the personal essay is an ideal way to extend our range and add to our writer’s toolbox.

Stop crossing your fingers and randomly sending out your work. Instead, learn to develop a strategy that’s fun and effective in getting your work published.

“Worldbuilding” calls to mind fictional settings—Hogwarts, Gatsby’s mansion, Alice’s Wonderland—but creating a vivid world on the page is just as essential in creative nonfiction.

Before you can effectively bring characters to life on the page, you must understand who they are and why they do what they do.