Storytelling saved my sanity during the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown afforded me time to write and share stories about my life and career. I wasn't writing my memoir as much as I was engaged in ...

"I do not think that the vocation of writer is superior to any other," writes Melissa Febos in her newest essay collection, "but I do believe it is the most useful life for me, the one in which I can ...

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...

Writing about trauma risks polishing the pain, forcing neat closures, and smoothing out what resists language altogether. It also risks dipping into the cliché or the sensational. So how does a writer ...

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology essay, “The Power of Story” by Dr. Erica Kaye, Director of Research in Quality of Life and Palliative Care at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. The ...

Evidence strongly suggests that humans in all cultures come to cast their own identity in some sort of narrative form. We are inveterate storytellers. It is December 1974 and an icy wind is whistling ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the steps and stories of side hustles and second careers. COVID-19 has many of us hunkering down in place and social ...

Story is all the rage. Everyone wants to tell their personal narrative or to give the Bible a simpler and more relevant plot. Maybe it isn’t such a good idea. I am halfway through a new version of the ...