We sat down with Poynter senior scholar Roy Peter Clark, author of numerous books including “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times,” to talk about what makes good short writing. It’s a topic ...

What: A three-day festival featuring a special lineup of conversations with outstanding novelists, playwrights, journalists, translators, poets, critics, historians and essayists. LENOX — The Authors ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (December 12, 2023) – The Poynter Journalism Prizes, the newly renamed contest honoring the best in U.S. journalism, is creating a prize in honor of Roy Peter Clark, the author ...

Kelly Link has always had a soft spot for all things magical. The author published her first full-length short story collection, “Stranger Things Happen,” in 2001; the book contained tales of ...

Editor’s note: The second annual “Best in Rural Writing Contest” was presented by the rural literary journal The Milk House with promotional support from the Daily Yonder. Judge Dr. Chea Parton ...