With the forthcoming 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, local Cambridge author Nina MacLaughlin’s “Wake, Siren” joins the influx of works focused on feminism and female empowerment. The ...

For many young children, the impulse to create and share stories is natural. Whether your student prefers books of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, or does not yet know what she likes best, exposing ...

The program’s core consists of four practice-oriented workshops focused on student writing. MFA writers also take seminars in literature (usually in contemporary British and American literature) and a ...

An invitation came by email to contribute to a teaching volume. A brief piece, only a few hundred words long, was needed. Describe a favorite teaching exercise from your literature classes. The word ...

Amidst the falling leaves and crisp temperatures on Oct. 13, UNC students met in front of Wilson Library for the firstAsian American Creative Writing Collective meeting of the semester. New and ...

"We all think it's dead obvious that a musician has practice time devoted solely to "work" meant to be discarded. But programmers..." So wrote programming instructor and game developer Kathy Sierra on ...

Is there a creative writer who hasn’t at times wondered what it is that impels thousands of people to spend thousands of hours thinking about and writing made-up stories, that at best will be read by ...

Creative writing is unique for a few reasons. This guide addresses things unique to writing fiction. The thing/character that is battling the protagonist. The antagonist does not have to be a person, ...