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Brevity 81: On “Somewhere on a city street” and Naming the Hurt

Capturing, Collecting, Collating, and Making Them Work: Prompts on How To Organize Your Free-Floating Ideas

Behind the Magic: Why Writing About Writing Works

Brevity 81: On “With the Braves On, My Father Washes Me” and Finding the Right Form

A New Issue of Brevity: Essays on Love, Loss, and the Sweet Sting of What Could Never Be

Writing Long: Unlocking Your Story with Deep Work

My Mother’s Red Pen and What I Did About It

More Than a Hook: How to Open with the Heart of Your Memoir

Two Rules for a Better Author Newsletter

The Year the Pause Became a River: On Writing Beyond the Memoir

Resolve to Publish a Book? Here’s How to Make That Resolution Come True

The Dammed River: On Writing and the Work of Bleeding

The Brevity Blog Needs All Hands on Deck

Found In Translation: Intimacy, Devotion and the Creature of Language

Backstory is Not Always Bad

There Is No Closure: Stop Organizing and Start Writing

Recording My Audiobook—Baby Steps and a Stretch

Are All Writers Masochists? No, But It Helps

The Year of the Writer

Writing the Rapids

Creative Chaos Theory: Your Essay Begins Here

Sentences on [The Essay]

Telling It Like It Was: Selecting the Right Facts for Nonfiction Narrative

An Open Letter to Your Family and Friends This Holiday Season

Monkey Business

The Distance Between Us—Bridging the Gaps Between Writers

The Gifts Writers Really Want

Digital Debris: Clearing the Clutter to Make Room for Real Writing

When a Book Blurb Gets Epsteined: a Marketing Burden We Didn’t See Coming

On Writing in Collaboration: The Art of the Duet

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