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

In this post, Dustin Grinnell explores the tactics that author Michael Crichton used to craft realistic science fiction within one of his most popular novels, 'Sphere.'

Editor Jennifer Haupt delivers the top tools for creating a cohesive and engaging anthology that writers will be excited to be a part of and readers will fall in love with.

YA author Annie Sullivan shares how she had to raise the stakes for everyone in her sequel to A Touch of Gold, why the writing process changed because of selling it on proposal, and more!

Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the masnavi (or mathnawi), an old poetic form with Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu variants.

Hanna C. Howard shares that her path to success involved starting a new project (her YA fantasy novel, Ignite the Sun), how long it took to get a book contract after acceptance, her best advice for other writers, and more!

Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, reveal a new power.

Readers love to be surprised, but they're not fans of being tricked or manipulated. Author John McNally shares his five tips for surprising your readers without it feeling like a trick.

New literary agent alerts (with this spotlight featuring Ayla Zuraw-Friedland of the David Black Agency) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list.

Here are the top writing websites just for fun as identified in the 22nd Annual 101 Best Websites from the May/June 2020 issue of Writer's Digest.