Editor’s note: Poynter announced that the newly renamed 2024 Poynter Journalism Prizes will feature a category honoring longtime writing coach Roy Peter Clark and recognizing compelling short writing ...

The theme of Aristotle’s Poetics is not poetry as we now conceive of it, but the imitative arts. The first book treats especially of tragedy and epic poetry. Because the second book addressed comedy, ...

Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and storyteller at the intersection of technology and the humanities, investigating how perspective can enhance, rather than overstimulate, ...

How to write a novel in 2026, how to stay focused, how to finish a project, and when not to, from one of fantasy's most ...

For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

As you might already know when writing books it is extremely important authors maintain consistency and depth in their storytelling. This is particularly crucial in complex narratives such as series, ...

Folklore, legends and spooky stories have existed as long as the fires they’re often told around. Musing over ghosts, monsters and the unexplainable is an ancient pastime. You don't have to be Stephen ...