"As a wordsmith writing news articles and columns, I have an appreciation for the power words can have." ...

Arif Anwar: The idea from the start was to build a close-knit, small group of students which would yield high mentor-student ratio and to build a temporary community that dissipates creative energy.

Not quite the great American novel. Has anyone ever said to you “You should write a book” or “That would make a great book?” “Maybe someday” is generally the response people give. Writing, especially ...

Books about writing are a genre all their own, but books on how to write well almost exclusively default to the perspective of the white and cisgender experience of making books. The most popular and ...

Meg Wolitzer ’81 discussed the evolution of her decades-long career as a novelist at an event hosted by the Providence Athenaeum that filled the olive-green pews of First Unitarian Church Friday, ...

Editor’s note: This book review of Paul Horgan’s Approaches to Writing in the Jan. 26, 1974 issue of America was one of many contributions Walker Percy made to America over the years. Though less well ...

FIU’s graduate program in creative writing is turning out award-winning writers who are gracing the world with their words and stories. As evidenced by alumni (think “Mystic River” author Dennis ...

In a word, Eleanor Kedney is reverent. She’s reverent about writing, and she’s reverent about teaching. It’s palpable in the way she talks about writing. It’s clear in the way she presides over her ...

In the first years of my life, while my parents worked full-time jobs, I was looked after by my Lolo (Tagalog for “grandfather”). Handsome and charming, Lolo had immigrated to the United States from ...