For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 14 is to write a who blank poem.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 13 is to write a dialogue poem.

Career freelance writer and copywriter Robert W. Bly discusses the concept of “client-less” copywriting and how it can be problematic.

Presenting the 2026 edition of the Writer’s Yearbook, presented by Writer’s Digest magazine, featuring an all new Freelancer’s Rate Chart.

Debut author Rona Wang reveals how she landed an agent with one query and manuscript, but then ultimately published a different one.

In this interview, author Grace Helena Walz discusses how the editing process helped evolve her new novel, Good Hair Days.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 12 is to pick a color and write a poem.

Author J.D. Mathes shares the importance of writing through the troubled moments of our lives to find healing for ourselves and others.

Self-published author Leigh M. Hall shares how she got started and found success in self-publishing, despite being an introvert.

Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, write about something cyclical.

In this interview, author Ann Packer discusses the warm and safe experience of working with the publishing team on her new novel, Some Bright Nowhere.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in November. Day 11 is to write a poetic form and/or anti-form poem.

Author Rachel J. Lithgow reveals her struggle to break a cycle of abuse between her and her books, the ones she can’t quite finish…or quit.

Author Courtney Psak breaks down what makes a thriller work without on-screen gore and crafting suspense through restraint.

In this interview, author Matthew Davis discusses learning to trust his vision during editor changeovers with his new historical nonfiction, A Biography of a Mountain.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 10 is to write an advice poem.

Author Ted Genoways shares four things all writers should know about José Cuervo from his research on the Tequila Wars.

Get practical advice and tools to help you develop strong pitch letters and proposal materials, plus more from Writer’s Digest!

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 9 is to write a where blank poem.

Author Colin Brush shares how he went from writing reductive copy for novels to expanding copy into a novel.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 8 is to write a more poem.

WD reconnected with former Breaking In author Rachel Rynya Katz to discuss her latest release, Isn’t It Obvious?, and what she’s learned since releasing her debut novel.

This month, trained fighter and author Carla Hoch shares examples of flawed writing scenes and offers tools to help make them better.

Award-winning author and podcaster Debra Eckerling reveals five things writers can do in challenging times to be productive and happy.