The Brevity Blog
Our Lives Matched: How Finding Someone with a Similar Story Propelled a Writer to Publication
This Class May Not Be For You: Finding Your Writing Teacher Match
Stylin & Profilin On You
Rocket Your Reader: Powerful Memoir Openings Need This
Moving through Space, Moving into Memoir
Emergency Poems: Writers Offer Support Through A Reading for Sudan
Narrative Medicine: How I Wrote the Story I Couldn’t Remember
Second Draft: How Dramatic Structure Powers Revision
Essays in Belonging: Baby Owls, Bobtail Squid, and the Power of Asking 100 Questions
The Craft of Flash Nonfiction: A Brevity Blog Round Up
Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards: Celebrate your Faves including the Blog—Vote Now!
At Sea: Transform Your Writing and Your Process
Thanksgiving Gratitude, from Brevity and The Brevity Blog
A Few Kind Words
Duck, Duck, Essay: The Recipe for Writing
Seeing into the Life of Things: Memory as an Act of Imagination
Editorial Feedback for a Fee—Buyer Beware
Is an MFA Worth It for Aspiring Writers?
Climbing that Ladder Again: The Planner and The Pen
Last Call!—Join the Conversation with Our 2025 Editors’ Wish List
Goodbye, Earl: A Field Guide to Handling Internet Hate
Pay-to-Play: The Rise of the High-Ticket Writing Program
How Searching for Writing Topics Became a Search for Truth and Beauty
Body Doubling: How Writing with Others Saved My Sanity and My Manuscript
Why We Write: Money, Fame, or To Be Transported from Challenging Lives
Me Again: On Sticking with Memoir
Making the Case for Joy
Invited to a Book Club? Reviewers Ready to Boost Your Book? Have (A)I Got News For You
The Mottled Orange of an Autumn Pumpkin: A Brevity Blog Round Up on The Enduring Power of Detail
Unlocking Creativity: The Physics of Writing
What, Exactly, Are You Trying to Communicate?
Choosing the Right Developmental Editor for Your Writing: Dos, Don’ts and Duds
How to Date a Writer
Three Is the Magic Number
Learning About Neurodivergence Transformed My Writing Process
Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice
How I Successfully Restored My Facebook Account (and learned I needed a new community)
The Art of Germination: Letting Your Creative Work Rest
Writing That Endures—It’s All in the Craft
Memoir in Poetry: Writing with T.S. Eliot During Uncertainty and Chaos
What Is Creative About Creative Nonfiction?
Conversion Block: When It’s OK to Quit Your Book
How to Embrace Stovetop ADHD in Our Writing Kitchens
My Life Is a Knot, I Can Love the Knot: Reflections on Narrative and Nonfiction
Art and Resistance and Parenting
Successfully Selling Memoir: It’s About the Reader
Tiny True Stories: How Micro Memoirs Make Us Better Writers
The Essay: Tradition & The Individual Talent
Nice Work. Please Finish: Using Storytelling to Define Your Digital Identity
The Pride, the Pain, the Love, and the Grit: On Writing and Gymnastics
Get Smart About Your Writing Education
A Writing Retreat with Inspiration, Hard Lessons, and Plenty of Cheese
Don’t Ask Readers to Cry for a Stranger (‘Cause They Won’t)
So, Publishing Your First Book Didn’t Change Your Life….
Reconstruction: Writing the Unknown As If It’s Real Makes Stronger Scenes
A Heroine’s Journey: When Your Story Doesn’t Fit the Standard Memoir Structure
A Place of Healing: Finding the Right Words In an Unright Moment
Writing from the Wound: Leaving Room for Raw Urgency