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 ...

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? In Part One, Jenny Vo, Michele Morgan, and Joy Hamm shared wisdom gained from ...

ENGLISH TSU is not a subject, like physics or geography or Latin. It is a universal skill, and every teacher of academic subjects should be in some degree a teacher of English. One of the English ...

From playwriting to investigative journalism to graphic fiction, Yale offers a multitude of courses in creative writing — many of which are taught by professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who ...

Last October I met the author Lauren Groff at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. I wanted a chance to hear from the author of a favorite book, Arcadia, and I wanted an autograph for my copy ...

One of America’s greatest living writers also happens to be one of the country’s longest-running teachers of creative writing. I’m talking about Joyce Carol Oates, author of more than 50 novels, whose ...

Note: In the “Are You Working?” series, a Ph.D. and academic-writing coach answers questions from faculty members and graduate students about scholarly motivation and productivity. This month’s ...

Sritama Chatterjee is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. You can find her on Twitter @SritamaBarna. Given this situation, it may be challenging ...

W henever I talk with colleagues about our students’ writing, we complain. Not only about the writing itself (which, every year, at every institution, is consistently but somehow surprisingly bad) but ...

The other day I had a friend, someone who knows my work, and who even works in education-adjacent spaces ask, “Have you written anything about that ChatGPT stuff?” Have I? It seems like that’s all ...

Baltimore County Public Schools is bringing back cursive writing for elementary students across the district, Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers announced on Wednesday.