The request was simple enough: Please come and talk to 11 separate Southern Indiana grade school classes about writing. You know, the thing you do for a living. Rearranging the alphabet into words.

Writing this sentence was hard. There were so many other things I could have gone with. That set of words seemed right at the time, roughly 90 seconds ago. Now I’m not so sure. Joan Didion once said ...

Young readers deserve our best work. The Writing for Children and Young Adults concentration is part of The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, founded in 1996. Students study with our ...

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 ...

Molly McCully Brown joined the UW faculty in 2023 as Director of Creative Writing. She is the author of the essay collection Places I’ve Taken My Body (Persea Books, 2020) and the poetry collection ...

L ee Gutkind, a writer and administrator of a creative-writing program whom Vanity Fair once dubbed the “godfather behind creative nonfiction,” has reached his golden years in triumph. That’s the bad ...