I write because I am terrified of forgetting. Not the mundane forgetting of where I placed my keys or what I ate for breakfast, but something more profound — the forgetting of who I was at a ...

Synopsis: A short play following a group of passionate young writers with allegorical names, who once filled pages of writing together. When they are tragically reunited, see how they brainstorm, ...

Themes of academic dread or nerdiness often crop up when writing comes to mind. Until college, I never truly considered the bigger picture: Why do we write, or more aptly, why should we? Even still, ...

In 1994, when I first started writing fiction, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. It was my boss—the managing editor of the newspaper where I ...

Academics internalize that we must “publish or perish,” but that message creates fear, loathing and pressure, write Deborah J. Cohan and Barbara J. Risman. Academics in nearly every college or ...