Every morning, after I’ve secured the intravenous drip from the coffee pot into my arm, I knock out a couple of hours of fiction writing. That’s not exactly surprising as I’m a science-fiction author ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

Writing fiction is not as hard as it seems, as long as you follow these eight simple rules: Show, don’t tell. Remember show-and-tell in elementary school, when you’d bring in an object from home and ...

Our workshops introduce you to the craft of writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Over the course of a semester, you will learn ways of shaping stories and poems through various exercises ...

Keep a list of new words that you encounter and use them in your writing. Endeavour to make sophisticated vocabulary choices where you can. Metaphor Using one thing to represent another. His coat was ...

When I was 10, I was a lonely, geeky girl, a first--generation Latina growing up in a small town in Indiana. I happened across J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, and immediately ...

Fiction writers in the MFA program work with nationally and internationally known authors including Lidia Yuknavitch, Alan Heathcock, Peter Mountford and Brendan Basham. Our emphasis is on helping you ...

This week’s story, “ Deal-Breaker ,” will appear in your new collection, “ This Is Not About Us ,” which comes out in ...

We now understand what happens when we don't act quickly. The coronavirus pandemic taught us that addressing an issue early makes a tremendous difference. Some are hoping the outbreak will be a ...