Announcing the Winners of the 20th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition

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.

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.