“…we need big stakes for our protagonists. The weight of literally saving the world doesn’t have to be on their shoulders, but figuratively, it should be.” In the January/February 2022 issue of Writer’s Digest, Sharon Short writes about how to get your readers to care about your protagonist – inMore
Deadline: May 6, 2022. Writer’s Digest is calling for entries for its oldest and most popular competition, the Annual Writing Competition. This is the 91st edition of the competition. Winners will be announced in the Nov/Dec 2022 issue of Writer’s Digest. Prizes One Grand Prize winner will receive: $5,000 inMore
The 2022 edition of the annual Writer’s Digest Conference takes place from July 28-31 at the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel. After a two year break, this will be an in-person event. The keynote speaker will be Beverly Jenkins, the recipient of the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora RobertsMore
Writers Digest has a section themed ‘5-Minute Memoir where they invite writers to do a 600-word reflective essay on the writing life. The September/October edition of the magazine carries a ‘5-Minute Memoir’ by Paul Nicolaus where he recalls the first time he heard Anne Lamott‘s advice for writers to produceMore
The September/October 2021 issue of Writer’s Digest carries an interview with Jane Yolen, aptly titled ‘The Queen of Kidlit.’ In March this year, the prolific children’s writer released her 400th published book, a picture book titled Bear Outside. Yolen has been publishing books for about five decades now. Her firstMore
In the May/June 2021 issue of Writer’s Digest, Don Vaughan writes about how invaluable mentorship can be to writers, whether they are newbies or experienced. He gives several examples of famous authors and their mentors, including Ray Bradbury, who had several mentors. “Many authors influenced Bradbury as he honed hisMore