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How to Reset Your Creative Life for 2026
A 5 step reframe to get back on track and write your little heart out
Jan 8 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
Our Most Popular Pieces of 2025 🔥
Write or Die Magazine Updates | December 2025
Dec 3, 2025 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
Revision Techniques to Get Your Short Story *Published*
Plus how to know what comes next in your novel rewrite | Write or Die Weekly #90
Oct 30, 2025 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
No Overthinking. No Editing. Just 50k Words in 30 days — Do You Dare?
First Draft November is calling your name | Write or Die Weekly #89
Oct 23, 2025 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
A writer walks into a bar...
Plus how to * finally * get that novel draft done | Write or Die Weekly #88
Oct 16, 2025 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso

GRWM: an interview series

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GRWM— featuring Cassie Mannes Murray
Issue #18
Aug 27, 2025 • Brittany Ackerman and Cassie Mannes Murray
GRWM— featuring John Vurro
Issue #17
Jul 29, 2025 • Brittany Ackerman
GRWM— featuring Steve Chang
Issue #16
Jun 26, 2025 • Brittany Ackerman
GRWM— featuring Kerry Donoghue
Issue #15
May 28, 2025 • Brittany Ackerman

Magazine Updates

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Our Most Popular Pieces of 2025 🔥
Write or Die Magazine Updates | December 2025
Dec 3, 2025 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
Summer Reading List, Chaotic Writing Lives, and What We Published Last Month
Write or Die Magazine Updates: June 2025
Jul 10, 2025 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
The End of Knowing, Open Submission Call, and What We Published Last Month
Write or Die Magazine Updates: May 2025
Jun 10, 2025 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
Fiction Submission Call, Teen Nostalgia Screenwriting, Team Updates and What We Published Last Month
Write or Die Magazine Updates: April 2025
May 8, 2025 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso

Essays

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How to Reset Your Creative Life for 2026
A 5 step reframe to get back on track and write your little heart out
Jan 8 • Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
Everything That Happens Is From Now On
A Craft Essay by Suzanne Grove | Plus fiction readers wanted, what's on deck in the mag and upcoming Write or Die events
Mar 17, 2025 • Suzanne Grove and Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
Angela Chase Drinks My Afternoon Coffee
Find your teen self, find your true voice | plus a fun writing prompt to transport you
Feb 10, 2025 • Lauren Veloski
Everything You Do As a Writer Should Be in Service of Your Vision
"These Brief Exchanges" by Suzanne Grove | Plus what's on deck in the mag and upcoming Write or Die events
Feb 6, 2025 • Suzanne Grove and Kailey Brennan DelloRusso

Mini Masterclasses

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Worldbuilding: Tone, Mood, Atmosphere, Setting, Symbols, and Motifs
Mini Masterclass — September 2025
Sep 2, 2025 • Erin
Using Point of View and Genre to Determine Structure
Mini Masterclass — August 2025
Aug 4, 2025 • Erin
Voice and Authority in Sex and the City
Mini Masterclass — July 2025
Jul 1, 2025 • Erin
What Prose and Poetry Writers Can Learn from Beyonce, Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande, and Chappell Roan
Mini Masterclass — June 2025
Jun 2, 2025 • Erin
Can Writing Be Dangerous? (Spoiler: It Already Is)
Mini Masterclass — April 2025
May 5, 2025 • Erin
Using Theme and Conflict to Supercharge Romantic Pairings
Mini Masterclass — a new monthly series!
Apr 4, 2025 • Erin
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