A thank-you note got me my first real job. As a newly minted college graduate with no work experience, I was having a tough time finding my first grown-up gig. I thought I’d never get a break until I ...

Many of my most cherished memories as a youth involved traveling to see MLB ballparks during family vacations. Now as a ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m writing this on the 22nd of the month. My birthday was the 9th. My auntie and mum had lunch on the 19th, and auntie gave my mum a birthday card to pass along to me (with a gift ...

Kerri Majors. F&W Media/Writer’s Digest, $14.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-59963-688-7 Majors, founder of the online YA literary journal YARN, takes an autobiographical approach to the rewards and ...

An undated photo from the Illinois State Training School for Girls archives shows students practicing archery. Credit: Courtesy Geneva History Museum Of course, my fascination with Geneva and its ...

For more than a decade, The Pasatiempo Writing Contest has published outstanding literary works from a variety of genres.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. I’m shaking in my boots. Throughout a 30-plus year career as an editor and a writer (plus a quick break for an ...