"Evaluating Vietnamese poetry with polls," from Vietnam Net Bridge, reports on the popularity of using polls "to 'democratise' the evaluation of Vietnamese poetry."
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"Teacher training scheduled for statewide poetry program," from The Clarion Ledger, reports on the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest for schools in Mississippi. This is the real grassroots involvement needed at the high school level to promote engagement with poetry.
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This post announces our latest From Our Readers ask: Describe the First Time a Book Transported You to Another/Magical World. Comment for a chance at publication in a future issue of Writer's Digest.
Your story belongs to you but will involve other people. Where do your rights end and theirs begin?
Editor-in-chief Amy Jones navigates how to know your target audience, and how knowing will make your writing stronger.
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 safe poem.
Every writer needs a little inspiration once and a while. For today's prompt, someone is watching your narrator ... but there's a twist.
In this article, Brian Freeman, author of Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Treachery, discusses how he took up the mantle of a great series and made it his own.
Learn how to distinguish the sole from the soul with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples of correct usages.
In this brave new world of virtual learning and social distance, Kristy Stevenson helps us make the most of the virtual conference.
Writers of historical fiction must always ride the line between factual and fictitious. Here, author Terry Roberts discusses how to navigate that line.
