Brittany Taylor is an enterprise marketing manager and content strategist with over a decade of experience in B2B content marketing, brand building, and ghostwriting, with bylines in SELF, Teen Vogue, ...

A mark of a good writer, whether fiction, essay, or poetry, is the ability to unflinchingly illuminate the emotional issues that people often try to suppress. An exemplar is Phillip Lopate, long ...

Journalists chase, find and cover stories, and sometimes, they become one. From intriguing exposés to provocative thinkpieces and raw memoirs, the personal essay has long been a media staple, enjoying ...

This workshop is designed for beginning and emerging female and nonbinary writers with limited publication history. If you’ve always loved personal writing, are looking to develop your own work, and ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The personal essay isn’t dead. It’s just found new life. Personal essays are alive and well today, just in a different form ...

Amanda Layman is a B2B tech content writer and strategist with over 15 years of experience creating content for startups and enterprise brands. She founded Tigris, a content agency serving leading ...

For reasons I will never entirely understand, one of the requirements to get into selective American colleges is a personal essay. A personal statement — something that declares “Here’s what I’m ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The personal essay is arguably the most difficult, and often most dreaded, part of the entire MBA ...

In the fifth episode of Jill Soloway’s Amazon series “I Love Dick,” titled “A Short History of Weird Girls,” we listen and watch as various characters from the show share their most intimate moments ...