This following post is an excerpt from my new book: The Writing Workshop: Write More, Write Better, Be Happier in Academia. Research is writing. No one gets a fellowship, a Ph.D., a postdoc, a job, a ...

A successful writing workshop depends on respect, which is a two-way street, observes Toby Litt. Refrain from sneering at bad writing and offer praise to offset the critiques Let’s say you’re an ...

Over the past six weeks, the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) has again become a vibrant space of creative inquiry and literary collaboration through its 2025 Creative Writing Workshop ...

These days, it is normal for authors to go to writing workshops – or teach them. So why does the idea they produce derivative writers persist? What makes a writer? How do you become one? When I was ...