Writing Archives

What my golf coach taught me about writing

What a few decades — and many rounds of golf — with Rick Edmonds taught me about writing and teaching the craft

March 13, 2026

Roy Peter Clark

How we’re using humor in fraught times

Four writing tips for storytelling, memes and existential dread

October 15, 2025

Kristen Hare

Thinking about writing a memoir? Here’s why you should.

It’s ‘like holding up a mirror to yourself and your readers’

August 13, 2025

Kristen Hare

2025 Poynter Journalism Prize winners and finalists announced

10 prizes honor best in U.S. journalism from 2024

April 29, 2025

Jennifer Orsi

What I learned about writing from Tina Turner: Rough writing is good

In a prologue to an iconic performance of ‘Proud Mary,’ Turner explained how she revised the song with a radical change of tempo — from easy to rough.

June 1, 2023

Roy Peter Clark

The Best Pulitzer Lead (or Lede) of 2023 Is …

Roy Peter Clark continues a tradition of ranking the best leads on Pulitzer-winning stories

May 16, 2023

Roy Peter Clark

The most outrageous Pulitzer lead of all time

Critic Andrea Long Chu goes waaaay out there – and is rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize.

May 15, 2023

Roy Peter Clark

Public writers, including journalists, ‘must take responsibility for what readers know’

Writing coach and scholar Roy Peter Clark calls for clear and honest writing in the world of lies, propaganda and misinformation

April 25, 2023

Marcela Kunova

Opinion | Want to become a better feature writer? Check out this new book by Lane DeGregory

There are many writing books. None of them are like this one.

April 13, 2023

Roy Peter Clark

What I learned about writing from watching Hallmark Christmas movies

An appreciation of Hallmark requires swimming against the tide of a half-century of literary and political criticism.

December 17, 2021

Roy Peter Clark

Opinion | From reporter to the corner office: a self-publisher’s maiden voyage

Self-publishing, once derided as ‘vanity publishing’ reserved for losers who couldn’t find a traditional publisher, has gone mainstream.

December 13, 2021

Chip Scanlan

Revision is your friend

4 questions with Rosalind Bentley, features/enterprise writer at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

December 13, 2021

Chip Scanlan

Opinion | A tribute to Don Fry

He shaped me as a writer, a teacher, and a man

December 8, 2021

Roy Peter Clark

The writing process

Take notes on your notes, stash them away, write to a reward: like Diet Coke.

January 13, 2021

Poynter Staff

Write Your Heart Out: The Craft of the Personal Essay (January 2021)

[vc_column_inner width="1/6"][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_inner width="1/6"]Uncover the powerful stories from your life and learn how to share…

November 12, 2020

Keith Woods

Opinion | Want to become a better feature writer? Check out this new book by Lane DeGregory

Opinion | From reporter to the corner office: a self-publisher’s maiden voyage

Opinion | A tribute to Don Fry

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