Acting Out of Character

For this week's market spotlight, we look at Ploughshares, a quarterly literary journal. Currently open for submissions June 1, 2020 to January 15, 2021.

Learn the winner and Top 10 list for the Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge for the huitain.

Learn when you're using empathy vs. sympathy vs. apathy with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including their differences and when they might overlap.

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

Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, we'll look at what happens when an antagonist levels up.

In celebration of Herman Wouk's birthday, we revisit his 1966 interview with former WD editor-in-chief, Kirk Polking.

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

Mindy Mejia, author of The Dragon Keeper and Leave No Trace, shares what inspired her most recent novel, Strike Me Down, when she prefers to start new projects, her best piece of advice for other writers, and more.

This week's writing prompt will take the point of view to an interstellar level.