Madeline Bodin

Journalist and entrepreneur Wudan Yan launches "Factual" to match writers and publications with freelance fact-checkers to ensure accuracy

Practical tips from nonfiction author Elizabeth Mehren on how to create compelling nonfiction from mounds of research and interviews

In a long feature story, two related or resonant threads can be woven to make a piece that is both complex and clear

How The Wall Street Journal has produced the daily narrative podcast "The Journal." for five years with focused content and a classic story structure

Atavist editor Seyward Darby on the writing craft that drives readers through a story to the end: Plot, characters, scene

Washington Post profile writer Geoff Edgers loads up on advance research and background interviews in advance of interviewing a celebrity

By Madeline BodinAfter reading a remarkable work of nonfiction, have you ever wished you could learn exactly how the writer created what you just read? I don’t think I’m alone…

 Tamara Dean thinks a lot about the elements of story, whether she is writing for magazines such as The Progressive; essays for Orion or Creative Nonfiction; or a fictional short…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This week, in honor of Pride Month, we feature three posts about transgender issues. Today, see how Lane DeGregory of the Tampa Bay Times handled a profile in…

We are living in a century of displacement, says Jessica Goudeau, award-winning author of “After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America.” And because we…