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Interested in improving your writing skills? Your blogging skills? Want to become a copywriter master to make a good living on the side (to support your creative writing)? Its time you checked out Writers Digest University slate of online courses, designed to help you improve your technique and reach your writing goals. Heres a list of upcoming courses.

Alida Miranda-Wolff breaks down how bias is plaguing publishing today and offers tools for writers to be part of the change.

Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have a character get initiated.

Author Mia P. Manansala discusses how a beta reader helped her rethink the story she wanted to tell in her new cozy mystery novel, Homicide and Halo-Halo.

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write a round poem.

Author and instructor Kiare Ladner discusses the release of her debut literary novel, Nightshift, in the midst of the pandemic, and its revival with a U.S. publication.

Author Kim Fay discusses the hard right turn she took when beginning work on her new historical fiction novel, Love & Saffron.

Author Alana Quintana Albertson discusses how she reimagined Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending in her new romantic comedy novel, Ramón and Julieta.

The Writers Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so this series helps identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This weeks mistake is trying to control everything.

Author and podcast post Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts discusses how exploring personal joy led her to write her new essay collection, Black Joy.