Funded by a Teaching and Learning Development Grant, this first video examines ways to improve narrative writing and what its goals are. Many students do not fully understand how to write narratives ...

Question: I need to develop a narrative CV for an upcoming Tri-Agency grant application, and I’m baffled by this way of presenting my work. It feels incongruous with who we are ...

Storytelling saved my sanity during the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown afforded me time to write and share stories about my life and career. I wasn't writing my memoir as much as I was engaged in ...

As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...

Writing about trauma risks polishing the pain, forcing neat closures, and smoothing out what resists language altogether. It also risks dipping into the cliché or the sensational. So how does a writer ...

I should have had a ready answer at my fingertips (but it was early in the morning and I hadn’t opened my can of Red Bull). I mumbled something about an attempt to impose order on the chaos of the ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The story in your mind that you spend hours at a time daydreaming about could be ...

My first attempt at writing a video game script begins with the socialist journalist and activist Marina Ginestà, a remarkable woman who died five years ago, at the age of 94. Although she lived an ...