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.

Do you want to write essays that speak to larger societal issues and learn how your personal narrative can speak to the cultural moment?

Unlock your storytelling potential and share your words with captivating brevity.

In a crowded publishing marketplace, professionally reviewing books is a way to network and build your byline.

What tone to strike at the start? And how to shape an ending that responds? Learn how to make your essays move.

Beyond show-don’t-tell, create powerful scenes through details, images, and juxtaposition.

Write your book’s “blurb”—the sharp, versatile pitch for submissions, promotion, and marketing that defines what your book is and why it matters.

Struggling with writing scenes or recreating lost memories? Thinking like a photographer can help.