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This is how to access my database of 176 (and growing) literary publications for creative nonfiction.

I’m no longer keeping this to myself… — About a year ago, I started a weekly newsletter that listed calls for submissions for creative nonfiction. There are so many great writers on Medium, and so many great publications out there. I wanted to connect the two. I still do. And it worked! I’ve heard from several Medium writers…

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This is how to access my database of 176 (and growing) literary publications for creative…
This is how to access my database of 176 (and growing) literary publications for creative…
Writing

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Tell Your Story

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Announcing Tell Your Story’s Fall 2021 Contest Winners

Well, I was blown away by the outstanding writing that was submitted to this season’s contest. I received about 10x the number of submissions I received for the Spring 2021 contest. Which made for a lot of reading, re-reading, and difficult decisions. Please enjoy all of the wonderful creative nonfiction…

Creative Non Fiction

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Announcing Tell Your Story’s Fall 2021 Contest Winners
Announcing Tell Your Story’s Fall 2021 Contest Winners
Creative Non Fiction

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Tell Your Story

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Tell Your Story’s Fall 2021 Writing Contest — $1,000 in Prizes

The Spring contest was so successful I’m doing it again — even bigger and better. — Calling all writers! Announcing Tell Your Story’s Fall 2021 creative nonfiction contest! Tell Your Story is already home to some of the best creative nonfiction on Medium, and I want to keep the momentum going. So our 2nd ever contest is even bigger and better than the first. Prize money…

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Tell Your Story’s Fall 2021 Writing Contest — $1,000 in Prizes
Tell Your Story’s Fall 2021 Writing Contest — $1,000 in Prizes
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Tell Your Story

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Announcing Tell Your Story’s Spring 2021 Contest Winners

To be honest, I didn’t know how this would go. Frankly, I wanted to draw some attention to this new idea I had for a publication. A publication for writing that’s quite different from what you typically see here. …

Spring 2021 Contest

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Spring 2021 Contest

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Tell Your Story

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Tell Your Story’s Spring Writing Contest — $300 in Prizes

I’m hosting a writing contest. Details here. — Calling all writers! Announcing Tell Your Story’s Spring 2021 creative nonfiction / personal essay writing contest! I want Tell Your Story to become the home for the best creative nonfiction on Medium. Check out what we’ve published already, and I think you’ll agree that we’re on our way. To help…

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Tell Your Story’s Spring Writing Contest — $300 in Prizes
Tell Your Story’s Spring Writing Contest — $300 in Prizes
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The Writing Cooperative

·Aug 27

Powerful First-Sentence Techniques for Personal Essays and Creative Nonfiction

Titles are for clickbait. First sentences are where the real magic happens. — The first sentence of a great personal essay can set the tone, establish voice, and do several other fancy literary things that folks with MFA degrees from liberal arts colleges with tree-lined sidewalks and complicated recycling bins can tell you all about. Don’t get me wrong, those other fancy literary…

Creative Non Fiction

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Powerful First-Sentence Techniques for Personal Essays and Creative Nonfiction
Powerful First-Sentence Techniques for Personal Essays and Creative Nonfiction
Creative Non Fiction

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Tell Your Story

·May 23

Spring 2023 Writing Contest — Winners and Finalists

Another contest in the books! And another very difficult job for yours truly — identifying the finalists and winners from hundreds of submissions. I’m proud to be including ALL of these pieces in Tell Your Story, and very proud to be featuring all of them in the upcoming print edition. …

Creative Non Fiction

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Spring 2023 Writing Contest — Winners and Finalists
Spring 2023 Writing Contest — Winners and Finalists
Creative Non Fiction

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Tell Your Story

·Feb 19

Tell Your Story’s Spring 2023 Writing Contest — $500 in Prizes

It’s that time once again… give me something to read!! — It was almost 70 degrees the other day where I live. In February. This is not normal. Normally, if it’s 70 degrees in APRIL people are asking why the public pools aren’t open yet, neighbors are joking about the two days per year of tolerable weather we get as they…

Creative Non Fiction

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Tell Your Story’s Spring 2023 Writing Contest — $500 in Prizes
Tell Your Story’s Spring 2023 Writing Contest — $500 in Prizes
Creative Non Fiction

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Nov 28, 2022

Winners & Finalists — Tell Your Story’s Fall 2022 Writing Contest

I’m proud to announce the winners and finalists for Tell Your Story’s Fall 2022 writing contest! This just keeps getting better and better, and I was again blown away by the quality of the submissions. I had to make some very difficult decisions. …

Creative Non Fiction

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Winners & Finalists — Tell Your Story’s Fall 2022 Writing Contest
Winners & Finalists — Tell Your Story’s Fall 2022 Writing Contest
Creative Non Fiction

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Tell Your Story

·Oct 3, 2022

Tell Your Story’s Fall 2022 Writing Contest — $500 in Prizes

Calling all writers! Announcing Tell Your Story’s Fall 2022 creative nonfiction contest! Tell Your Story is already home to some of the best creative nonfiction on Medium, and I want to keep the momentum going. Our first three contests — started in 2021 — were incredibly successful, including print editions…

Creative Non Fiction

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Tell Your Story’s Fall 2022 Writing Contest — $500 in Prizes
Tell Your Story’s Fall 2022 Writing Contest — $500 in Prizes
Creative Non Fiction

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Chris Allen

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