In this interview, author Dana Mele discusses how a paragraph-long note on their phone became their new YA horror novel, The Beast You Let In.

Author Laurie Collister implores writers to avoid burning their diaries, because they may help with their memoirs.

Author and journalist Srianthi Perera talks with other journalists turned authors to discover how journalism helps them write books.

In this interview, author Wendy J. Fox discusses women’s paid and unpaid labor with her new novel, The Last Supper.

Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a water poem.

Polly Campbell helps you build a writing practice that carries you from initial draft to finished book, plus more from Writer’s Digest!

In this interview, author Judy Batalion discusses how a curiosity about 1930s-Poland helped inspire her new novel, The Last Woman of Warsaw.

Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a safety poem.

Write the opening line to a story based on the photo prompt below. (One sentence only.) You can be poignant, funny, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.

Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a friend poem.

Jenine Pastores and Josh Jackson share their personal story of creating comfort characters in an overstimulated world.

Author Leanora Benjamin shares nine tips on how to turn silence into story by examining her own writing and publishing journey.

In this interview, author Jenny Lawson discusses the lifetime of collecting motivational tips and tricks that led to her new memoir, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay.

Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an “Open (blank)” poem.

Author Laura Vogt, who took two decades on her road to publication, explains why patience is a publishing superpower.

Award-winning author and podcaster Debra Eckerling shares 10 LinkedIn goals for authors to raise their profiles.

Author Fartumo Kusow shares two very big pitfalls to avoid when writing about trauma and how she navigated around them.

In this interview, author Sheila Yasmin Marikar discusses the ups and downs of marriage and adulthood in her new novel, Incidentals.

Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an express poem.

Author Garrett Curbow breaks down magical realism in storytelling by using his own novel as a guide to adding magic between the lines.

Literary agent Sheyla Knigge is all about vibes and one of the best ways to capture it is through creating the soundtrack to your book.

Author Laura Brooke Robson breaks down the turbulence of writing books in the age of AI and proposes the answer may be to write weirder.

In this interview, author Luke Dumas discusses trusting his storytelling instincts when writing his new horror novel, Nothing Tastes as Good.

Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a seed poem.