If you're wondering what to write about, start with a tree. Or a car. Or a pair of blue jeans. Any object, of any size or shape, that...

Autobiography is tough. Whether 200 pages or 200 words, it's all about selection. What do you put in and what do you leave out?

"I'm feeling kinda intimidated because there are so many good writers in this group." Someone in our Pix Into Words workshop said that...

A "Pictures Into Words" writing prompt My mother wrote this piece in a 2011 Korongo workshop called “Pictures Into Words.” The idea for...

I love old photographs. You, too? I've got tons. Some have labels, and some don't. Scrupulously guarded in family albums for years, they...

Korongo co-founder Patrick Texier is testing the Storyworth.com memoir-writing platform with the help of his children and grandchildren:...

"deepest river coming up. Some say waist deep. Some say can go down and find shallower place maybe. Cross tomorrow or next day. More cold...

Patrick is working on a Storyworth project with his children and grandchildren—they pose the questions, he writes the answers. Below is...

Patrick is working on a Storyworth project with his children and grandchildren—they pose the questions, he writes the answers. We started...

I put together this video to illustrate the concept of turning points—moments in a life story when an event causes a disturbance, and...

Yesterday (June 26) Korongo blogger and CDT thru-hiker Mary Anderson (aka #MaryBadass) reached Triple Divide Pass in Glacier National...

Whenever #MaryBadass settles in for the night on the Continental Divide Trail, she sends out a satellite message to let folks know she...

On May 27, Mary Anderson set out from South Pass, Wyoming, to hike the northern half of the Continental Divide Trail. By June 7, she was...

The Glacier Park permit offices issue a small number of walk-in camping permits per day. If you show up after they run out, you're out of...

Korongo is sponsoring extreme hiker Mary Anderson as she treks the second half of the Continental Divide. Here's how you can help.

Get cozy with a warm mug, your iPad, and our new zine Just before the long, dark winter of 2020–2021 settled over Vermont's White River...

On our first wedding anniversary, twenty years ago, I gave you two papier-mâché birds, purchased at Robin's Nest in Arusha. I remember...

In September Korongo published the premier issue of a journal about our wacko times. Now we're working on the next one. Our contributors...

In September, I started leading a couple of writing workshops that focus on keeping a diary. Mine begins with a quilt.

There are always repercussions when you publish your work. Some of them will surprise you. When Frank McCourt published Angela’s Ashes,...