Writers

Your story matters. Our tools help you write it, shape it and share it.

If you're passionate about writing or looking to meet, collaborate and share with other writers, you've found the right place! We offer writing-focused programs and events for all levels to help you develop your skills. Connect with fellow writers at open mics.

Thank you if you attended The 2025 Writers Conference. Miss a session? Check out our OnDemand video playlist. »

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Writing Creative Nonfiction

Whether it's a creative nonfiction essay or an investigative narrative nonfiction book, these resources will help guide your writing!

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Publish Your Writing

These resources can help guide you through contracts, marketing, self publishing, and how to get your work into the hands of readers.

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For Writers

List of Lists for Local Writers

All of our lists on miscellaneous topics, like getting published, writing poetry, doing research, and more!

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Practical Tips for Creative Motivation

Need inspiration to finish your novel, or "permission" to allow yourself to focus on your creative aspirations? Find tips and tricks!

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More Staff Picks for Writers

Submissions & Spotlights

Join our writing community, enter our contests (with a chance to win $200) and contribute to our publications via Submittable.

Spring Contest: Architecture of Home

From Sears to Frank Lloyd Wright, the physical architecture of home is constantly evolving.

We want you to think about what home means to you. Is it a luxury apartment? A farm homestead or a cookie-cutter house in a subdivision? Is your home lived-in with pet hair or immaculately tidy? Is it an echo chamber, or does it ring with the laughter of children? Does your family extend beyond the nuclear, or is it a tight-knit group of three? What is your home built of? And the big one: What makes a house a home?