Your goal is not to write a great story but to finish a story. It’s normal if there’s a huge discrepancy between how good you envisioned your story being and how clumsy your actual sentences seem.

Megan Park got inspired to write 'My Old Ass' when she was a new mom, sleeping in her childhood bedroom. The experience ...

Explore five spaces to write your story and let your voice be heard. From a quiet home corner to a mountain hideaway, find your haven.

Everyone has a story to tell. Writing a memoir is more than just documenting your life — it can help you process what you've gone through, capture a moment in history for descendants and help ...

My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic, semi-literate adolescent. Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium.

If you prefer to do something more creative, then try responding to this prompt by writing a poem or story: Think about the ways your home reveals the moment we are currently in.

To my creative-writing classmates, I am submitting this letter to you in lieu of a short story, which was the assignment for this week. When I enrolled in this creative-writing course, I knew to ...

Tobias Wolff calls my parents’ house in Amarillo, Texas, leaves a message: I’ve been admitted to the Syracuse Creative Writing Program. I call back, holding Back in the World in my hands. For ...

She was called a boy for her short hair, but this author now draws on moments like these to inspire her stories. Read more at ...

We asked Washington writers to share stories, poems, drafts, musings, and other things they’ve been working on during the pandemic. Today, an original short story by Amber Sparks, author of And I Do ...

In his memoir, My Long Trip Home, Mark Whitaker explores the lives of his parents. They came from vastly different backgrounds, and their interracial relationship helped shape Whitaker's own life ...