NOW AVAILABLE! The May/June 2026 issue is now available on newsstands! Featuring the 28th Annual 101 Best Websites for Writers, and the cover interview with bestselling author Mike Chen where he discusses the importance of fandom, writing for IP giants like Star Wars, and tacking his biggest project yet: the space opera The Photonic Effect. Get your copy at your favorite local bookstore today, or tap the link in our bio for more!
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What is your literary destination this weekend? ✈️📖 More from author Melinda Leigh at the link in our bio.
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The act of handwriting a letter is an intimate, oft-neglected practice between the writer, the page, and the person they’re writing to. At the link in our bio, author Ronda Beaman shares what is so human and essential about taking the time to physically write and why letter writing still matters.
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Ignite your creativity and explore nature writing at Great Mountain Forest’s inaugural Nature Writing Retreat in Falls Village. Join us from August 7-9 to engage in guided walks, compelling discussions, and inspiring workshops with award-winning authors and naturalists. We can’t wait to see you there!
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“In my day job I’m a book editor at a publishing company,” writes Name Name. “Every day I get to help talented authors tell their stories and find their readers. I love my job. Beyond the business of acquiring and publishing, I get to roll up my sleeves and engage with the manuscript itself. I usually do two rounds of edits, one big-picture, and one line edit. In both phases, my goal is to amplify the author’s vision for the book, a north star we locate together before the process begins.
For my own novel, I had my north star, and that was the problem. All I could think about was how bad my pages were compared to the books I’d sought for inspiration.” Tap the link in our bio for more.
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The creative process is a challenging road for all writers, as it should be. Big Tech continues to push AI as an inevitability that every industry must bow down to. The editors at Writer’s Digest are calling BS. Listen to “Writer’s Digest Presents” wherever you stream podcasts, or follow the link in our bio for more.
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Writes author Ande Pliego, “Receiving rejections or criticism is not a sign of failure; quite the opposite, it’s a rite of passage that every aspiring author must face. In my opinion, this is the main difference between an abandoned manuscript in a drawer and a book on the shelf: persistence.” Tap the link in our bio for more on why you should never give up on your writing.
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Here’s to those big, weird dreams! 💓 More from author Véronique Darwin at the link in our bio.
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I like to think of a character’s morality as an escalator in a multi-level mall,” writes author Regina Linke. “The escalator isn’t the point of a shopping trip, but it can move a character up or down, ultimately determining which stores he’s able to shop at. As goodness and badness are simply different directions on the same mechanism, they become portals for a writer to open up different dimensions in which a character can operate.” Tap the link in our bio for more.
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“Most people don’t like horror,” writes author T.J. Payne. “I get it. Even as a kid walking through the friendlier sections of Blockbuster, I could feel the yellow eyes of Victor Pascow watching me from the Pet Sematary cover. I hated that feeling. Now people react with surprise when they find out that I write twisted books under the name T.J. Payne, and since they don’t want to ask why such a nice guy plays in such a nasty genre, they instead ask a simple question. Why the name T.J. Payne?” Tap the link in our bio for more.
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AI continues to infiltrate the publishing industry at an alarming rate. In the latest episode of “Writer’s Digest Presents,” editor-in-chief Amy Jones reminds us about the importance of fighting against it and how artists have a long history of fighting to protect human-made art. Listen to the episode wherever you stream podcasts, or follow the link in our bio for more.
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“Of the many bizarre things I did after my dad died suddenly, possibly the most ridiculous was Google, ‘How to keep writing after death of parent,’” writes author Kate Clark Stone. “I was desperate for some way to make sense of what had happened. I wanted to work. I needed to get lost in the work. At a time when everything felt out of my control, I craved the comfort of the page.” Tap the link in our bio for more on writing in the midst of grief.
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