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But What Do They Want?!? Write Publishable Essays by Analyzing Published Essays

By Allison K Williams A writer friend had an essay rejected fourteen times. It dealt beautifully with the journey of her abusive father’s dementia, and recognizing that her now-car...

University of Gehgeh: The Final Examination Between Fiction and Reality

The most recent news from Nigeria and across the world is available at The News Chronicle. The News Chronicle provides the most recent headlines, commentary, and political news. I...

The Long and Happy Life of an Unpublished Essay

An essay can have benefits beyond those that come from publication By Elizabeth Roper Marcus Shortly after taking up writing in my late 40s, I finished a memoir piece I was proud o...

A Passage

Crossing into England, at twenty, with a false story.

“Music Heals”: An Essay by Matthew Baione

Attorney, advocate, and Keep Good Company Records co-founder Matthew Baione reflects on music, memory, and the stories behind three digits in “Music Heals,” a moving essay marking...

Stories that matter

“For me, the hope was to make a human connection, help the student think creatively, and teach skills that would help not just the current paper, but their future writing as well.”

The children of middle-class migrants

A superb essay on bringing the fight for an independent Hong Ko...

On Happiness, Politics, Language and the Universe: The Week 10 Winners of Our Summer Reading Contest

As our contest comes to a close, we honor a video and three essays, and hear reflections on this year’s submissions from our judges.

What the ICE Invasion of Minnesota Taught Me About Writing

And why I’m still processing it six months later By Sandra Eliason “Attention without feeling is only a report.” ~ Mary Oliver My daughter’s Three Kings’ Day party, held each year...

‘elements’: An Essay by MALLRATS’ Craig Campbell

MALLRATS’ Craig Campbell examines the forces constraining expression, place, and identity in UK popular music – and how those pressures shaped the creative practice behind his albu...

Why I Write

The column went from being about a neighborhood to being all over the map. Now, I can’t attend any event, watch any movie, read any essay, discover any story, hear any conversation...

My Birthright

When you immigrate, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why I can’t stop writing about where I’m from?

A Decade of Outside Lands: Growing Up With San Francisco’s Favorite Festival

After 10 years, Outside Lands still feels like a reflection of the Bay Area itself – from genre-bending music and unexpected breakout sets to an all-star food scene, Wine Lands, fo...

The Long Essay—How It Can Do the Heavy-Lifting and Entertain

By Amy Monticello If there’s a “sweet spot” for an essay’s word count—say, 2,000-4,500 words, as many journals list in their submission guidelines—it has mostly eluded me. Maybe it...

Diary of a writers’ festival: Word Christchurch 2026

A report on the crowds, chaos, bathroom selfies and conviviality of a busy and brilliant festival. Day 1, Wednesday September 2 Flight was bumpy. Felt sick after landing but in the...

Literature, the sick man of arts funding

Extra! Extra! Read All About It . . . Again

At the Old News Newsstand, yesterday’s headlines are today’s hot scoops—discarded Timeses, out-of-vogue Vogues, cool zines, even vintage smut.

Confessions of an award-winning AI memoirist — the ‘slop’ debate isn’t really about good writing, and you know it

Publishers pack AI workshops, then use it internally, all while punishing authors who dare to do the same. The double standard has to stop.

THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE….

A recent feature on the regional TV news attracted my attention....

My article published on Meghalaya Monitor

Date 09/08/2026

On National Parks and Brainrot: The Winners of Week 6 of Our Summer Reading Contest

Chenyi Zhu reflects on national parks, while Christopher Leung wonders about internet slang.

Essayist en zomergids Rachel Aviv heeft een eindeloze fascinatie voor de relatie tussen moeder en kind

“Testing,” by Min Jin Lee

In less than twenty-four hours, he would take the Suneung again, and, for the past three years, he had done little but sleep, eat, and study for this exam.

THE INVISIBLE BORDER: THE EXHAUSTING REALITY OF EVERYDAY DISCRIMINATIO

### The Invisible Border: The Exhausting Reality of Everyday Discrimination Against Northeast India### The Casual Racism Epidemic: When Your Face Makes You a Foreigner in Your Own...