After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you ...

IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...

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 ...

To many people, if not most, the phrase “creative writing” marks a genre. A man writes in a garret, his pages lit by the faint glow of a lamp. Ideas are spilling madly from his cerebral cortex to the ...

In today’s fast-paced digital world, the ability to create engaging, high-quality content is more important than ever. Effective communication is critical whether you’re a high school student working ...

Creative writing is an art that combines imagination, emotion, and narrative techniques to tell stories that captivate readers. With the advent of advanced AI models like ChatGPT GPT-4o, writers now ...

Our low-residency MFA community inspires and sustains a lifetime of creative work. Come lean toward our fire and tell us your stories, poems, essays. We’re listening. Our program was built entirely by ...