The Write the World Blog

You have a story to tell. Maybe it's about the summer everything changed, a relationship that...

"Once I saw the prompt for the op-ed, I knew it would be the perfect chance to write something...

Meet Cecilia, Diep, and Tanishqa, the winners of our Personal Essay Competition! These...

"What a pleasure…I just wanted to say that it was a joy to read the work. What hope and promise,"...

Personal essays — a form of creative nonfiction that are sometimes called “narrative essays” — are...

I’ve always loved to listen to stories. My family played audiobooks in the car while I was growing...

In a great personal essay, everyday experiences transform into something luminous. These three...

This work by award-winning author Rowan Perez was written in our Location Writing Workshop, and...

"I was lucky to experience the magical moment of connecting recent events to older ones," says Toby...