The Authors Guild

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? Writing and thinking and feeling are all interwoven. Writing allows us to pause, reflect, question, explore, and more deeply and thoroughly experience our lives. It connects us with our fellow human beings and the world around us. Writers across the globe and hist...

Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Contest
Eligibility: All writers
Prize: $1,250 CAD
Entry fee: $35 CAD for Canadian entries, $45 CAD for everywhere else. Additional entries are $15 CAD per s...

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? For me, writing helps me clarify my thoughts and feelings. If we all wrote down our negative thoughts before speaking in anger, maybe the world would be a more peaceful place to live.

What are your tried and tested remedies to cure writer’s block...

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? Prescriptive nonfiction, my specialty, exists to transform readers’ lives for the better. The reader has a problem; the author has solutions. I coauthored a book to give experts the blueprint to write advice-based books that can change the world.

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? Writing is the closest thing I have to magic. I create worlds from nothing, and with a few words, can transport those worlds into someone else’s mind. What is more magical than that?

What are your tried and tested remedies to cure writer’s block?...