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From the Workshop Room to the L.A. Times: A Personal Essay Debut

From the Workshop Room to the L.A. Times: A Personal Essay Debut

“He wanted Los Angeles. I wanted New York.” — the premise of Matt Gerlach’s new essay in the Los Angeles...

by Writing Workshops Staff

3 months ago

27 Places to Submit Your Travel Writing

27 Places to Submit Your Travel Writing

3 months ago

Aida Zilelian on Turning Family Conflict Into Story

Aida Zilelian on Turning Family Conflict Into Story

3 months ago

A Writing Retreat in Ireland: Choosing Your 2027 Dublin Workshop

A Writing Retreat in Ireland: Choosing Your 2027 Dublin Workshop

3 months ago

Master the Art of List-Making: Ethan Joella's Proven Techniques for Breaking Writer's Block

Master the Art of List-Making: Ethan Joella's Proven Techniques for Breaking Writer's Block

3 months ago

Creative Writing Workshop Success Stories: Our Alumni's Recent Wins

Creative Writing Workshop Success Stories: Our Alumni's Recent Wins

3 months ago

How to Write Magical Realism: Lessons from a Poets & Writers First Fiction Author

How to Write Magical Realism: Lessons from a Poets & Writers First Fiction Author

Poets & Writers has named P.C. Verrone to its First Fiction 2026 list, the magazine's twenty-sixth annual roundup of the...

by Writing Workshops Staff

3 months ago

Whitney Vale's Sermon of Swallows Takes Flight

Whitney Vale's Sermon of Swallows Takes Flight

3 months ago

Jerry Portwood and the Short Story Twenty Years in the Making

Jerry Portwood and the Short Story Twenty Years in the Making

3 months ago

Minda Honey on Writing About Your Father Without Losing Yourself

Minda Honey on Writing About Your Father Without Losing Yourself

3 months ago

Michael Klein on Writing the Ecstatic Poem Without Fear or Cliché

Michael Klein on Writing the Ecstatic Poem Without Fear or Cliché

3 months ago

8 Great Author Bio Examples, Analyzed

3 months ago

Meet our Instructors:

Rebecca Winterich-Knox on Scene, Summary, and Writing Mothers and Daughters

Rebecca Winterich-Knox on Scene, Summary, and Writing Mothers and Daughters

A week ago

A promotional graphic for the 2027 Novel Incubator by Writing Workshops, showing a white book cover mockup with bold black and yellow title text.

From Draft to Publication-Ready: Inside the Year-Long Novel Incubator with Joss Lake

A week ago

The Art of Saying More with Less: Lizzie Lawson on Flash Nonfiction

The Art of Saying More with Less: Lizzie Lawson on Flash Nonfiction

2 weeks ago

Kate Milliken on Point of View, Confidence, and the First Door Every Reader Walks Through

Kate Milliken on Point of View, Confidence, and the First Door Every Reader Walks Through

2 weeks ago

Student Publication News:

Michaell Crews-Yancey's Tiny Love Story Appears in The New York Times

Michaell Crews-Yancey's Tiny Love Story Appears in The New York Times

3 weeks ago

JJ Kambal’s Mission Impossible Recipe Satire Lands at Points in Case

JJ Kambal’s Mission Impossible Recipe Satire Lands at Points in Case

3 weeks ago

A Most Anticipated debut of 2026 from Debutiful

A Most Anticipated debut of 2026 from Debutiful

3 weeks ago

Rachel Spies Finds Her Book's Shape in a Grief Writing Workshop

Rachel Spies Finds Her Book's Shape in a Grief Writing Workshop

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