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How To Pitch Essays To BuzzFeed READER
Interested in pitching personal essays or cultural criticism? Here’s how.
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The Most Moving Personal Essays You Needed To Read In 2016
Here are some of the most beautiful and insightful personal essays that BuzzFeed staff and contributors wrote this year (in the order they were published).
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28 Essays And Stories That Made Sense Of Trump’s America This Year
These essential pieces of writing on the presidential election help explain how we got here in 2016, and imagine where we go now.
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Here’s How Parents Explained The Election To Their Kids
When the world changed overnight, the first thing these writers thought about was how they would help their children make sense of it in the morning. It wasn’t easy.
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16 Personal Essays About Mental Health Worth Reading
Here are some of the most moving and illuminating essays published on BuzzFeed about mental illness, wellness, and the way our minds work.
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Throw Your Top Sheet In The Trash
Top sheets are, in fact, unnecessary to any human’s enjoyment of sleep, or life. They’ve gotta go.
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The Runner Who Won The Men’s 400M In Rio Is An International Treasure
I’m pretty sure I’m dead inside, but watching this South African runner win gold made me feel more feelings than anything else at Rio so far.
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Drunk Showering Is The Answer To All Of Your Problems
Believe me when I say that if Drunk You showers before bed, it will come back tenfold to Hungover You in the morning.
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5 Big-Batch Drinks That Will Get Your Bridal Shower Guests Drunk AF
Your mom, aunts, and all their friends are going to have a GREAT time.
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I Pay My Own Wages For Housework
Taking care of my home doesn’t feel like drudgery. It feels like taking care of myself.
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20 Essays You Need To Read From BuzzFeed Life This Year
A look back at some of the brightest ideas and most beautiful writing about food, health, style and more that we published in the past year.
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The Most Moving Personal Essays You Needed To Read In 2015
In no particular order, here are just a few of the many fantastic personal essays we published across BuzzFeed in 2015.
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We Tried To Become Best Friends In One Week And Here’s What Happened
Seven days + four co-workers + an unknown number of drinks = best friends forever?
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30 Gorgeous Tattoos Inspired By Great Books
Want to carry your favorite book with you all day, every day? Ink is the answer.
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19 Tips To Make Your Bed Even More Cozy
Home is where the z’s are.
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24 Clever Ways To Decorate A Store-Bought Pumpkin Pie
All you need is some dough and a dream.
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26 Lazy But Brilliant Ways To Get Drunk
Step 1: Be trashy. Step 2: Get trashed.
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29 Signs You’re Actually A Witch
Tossing people into ponds to see if they float is such a hassle! Just consult this quick and easy checklist.
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Which Season Is The Best Season?
Whatever this poll says, that’s it, and we’ll all just have to live with it.














