Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write a "where you are" poem.

In this author spotlight, Heather Lanier shares how her blog posts put her on the path to publication success with a new book, Raising a Rare Girl.

Here's a few finish-the-sentence prompts to inspire your next story.

For this week's market spotlight, we look at Virginia Quarterly Review, a literary journal looking for top-notch fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Submission period open through July 31, 2020.

ENTER NOW Deadline: 8/17/2020 Writer’s Digest’s Self-Published E-book Awards is currently accepting entries. This is the only Writer’s Digest competition exclusively for self-published e-books.

Learn when to use canon vs. cannon with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples of correct usages.

Here are 10 terrific quotes from Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White. In the same book that involves matters of life and death, the power of persuasion, and growing up, Charlotte's Web provides plenty of quotable moments.

In this post, Jeff Gomez shares how a podcast led to book publication of his new title Zeppelin Over Dayton: Guided By Voices Album by Album, what surprised him in the publication process, his best piece of advice for authors, and more.

Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the endecha, which is a Spanish quatrain form.

Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, we look at what happens when something goes missing.

To overcome writer’s block, Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley read 100 novels. It was the perfect medicine. She talks about the lessons those novels taught her in this January 2006 WD interview.

New literary agent alerts (with this spotlight featuring Pam Gruber of Irene Goodman Literary Agency) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list.

In this post, novelist Pamela Binnings Ewen shares her thoughts on writing better historical fiction by writing in the shadows of history and historical research.

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write a pandemic poem.

ENTER NOW! DEADLINE: 9/15/20 Writer’s Digest’s newest competition, the Personal Essay Awards, will be open for entries In June. Winners of the competition will be announced in our May/June 2021 issue of Writer's Digest.

Abbi Waxman, author of The Garden of Small Beginnings and The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, shares what inspired her most recent novel, I Was Told It Would Get Easier, how her promotion plans changed with the pandemic, and more.

Is this character the person who they say they are?

Announcing the winning manuscript and author of the 2019 November Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge! Plus, five honorable mentions are, well, mentioned.

For this week's market spotlight, we look at Bike Mag, a quarterly mountain biking magazine.

Learn when to use further vs. farther with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples of correct usages.

This post announces our latest From Our Readers question: What do you hope to achieve with your writing? Comment for a chance at publication in a future issue of Writer's Digest.

To celebrate the literary legacy of novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón, here are quotes from his Cemetery of Forgotten Books cycle about reading and writing.

Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the lethrannaegecht mor, which is an Irish quatrain form.

Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, the animal kingdom gets involved.