Journalists chase, find and cover stories, and sometimes, they become one. From intriguing exposés to provocative thinkpieces and raw memoirs, the personal essay has long been a media staple, enjoying ...

The first essay in Durga Chew-Bose’s Too Much and Not the Mood is called “Heart Museum,” and it opens with a long description of an iPhone emoji: There’s an emoji on my phone that I’ve never used, of ...

We’ll explore two methods of writing about our lives: the personal story and the personal essay. A personal story centres on our own experiences, while a personal essay connects experiences to ...

“This is why I find so much of recent personal writing tiresome: It’s too often defined by melodrama, humorlessness, and excessive self-pity…The kind of pieces where the writer seems to have given up ...

You may be almost done with high school and are getting ready to apply to your dream college. Or maybe you are already enrolled in your undergraduate studies and are in the process of applying to ...