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 ...

I'm not gonna lie: the hardest thing to get printed on Bustle as a freelancer is a personal essay. That said, personal essays are also what I'm most in need of as our features editor. The reason ...

Leslie Jamison's incredible new essay collection, The Empathy Exams, covers topics ranging from random violence to HBO's Girls to abortion to bad romance to stereotypes, proving she can write about ...

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 ...

Writing a personal essay is, very simply, about writing your truth. The voice in it is yours, an Irish teenager about to finish school, and the content is your views and thoughts on life and the world ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

Applying for a Rhodes Scholarship this year? A new rule means you won't be able to get any help writing or editing your application essay. The organization that hands out the prestigious scholarship ...

Writing a personal essay can be a full-body activity, replete with tremors and tears and physical aches. Recollection is strenuous. Recreating a scene can be downright exhausting. In those instances, ...

Before I pioneered writing personal essays about quitting things, people simply quit things and maybe told their friends and family about it. They didn’t quit things as fodder for an overlong essay ...

In the fifth episode of Jill Soloway’s Amazon series “I Love Dick,” titled “A Short History of Weird Girls,” we listen and watch as various characters from the show share their most intimate moments ...