For the sci-fi nerds, Robert A. Heinlein needs no introduction. He was one of the Big Three English sci-fi writers of the ...

My desire to change how I used grades in my introductory fiction writing class came from the same place as my desire for change in first-year writing; what I was doing didn’t seem to be working as ...

It's widely accepted conventional wisdom that when it comes to creative works—TV shows, films, music, books—consumers crave ...

Some important elements of that definition need to be restated: to be libeled, ... Writing that is purportedly non-fiction is examined far more stringently for libel than a fictional text, but there ...

As part of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), students in this workshop will learn about the building blocks of strong fiction writing, including elements like dialogue, plot/conflict, chara… ...

A conversation with bestselling writer Walter Mosley about his hard-boiled character Easy Rawlins and a life in crime writing. Walter Mosley, American novelist. He has written more than 50 books ...

All writing, but fiction especially, must rise up beyond itself. Whatever we’re writing, whatever we’re doing, you have to cut it down. My hero Jack Kirby was a storyteller.

Cressida Leyshon interviews the writer Yiyun Li about “The Particles of Order,” her story from the September 2, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.

During a book tour stop in Portland, Oregon earlier this year, author Jeff VanderMeer (Borne, the Southern Reach Trilogy) met up with two speculative-fiction contemporaries: Omar El Akkad and ...

Award-winning author Ruth Ozeki discussed her works of fiction, writing techniques, and the different elements of Buddhism that inspire her style on Thursday evening. The discussion was hosted by ...