Creative writing tips for beginners (4), by Ruth Oji Dear aspiring creative writer, how are you doing? Welcome to this week’s article on creative writing tips. Last week, among other things, we ...

As part of a creative writing course I am teaching in a design college in Bangalore, I gave my students the following task: I asked them each to choose a story or a poem from the language of the state ...

Imagine this: Deadline is looming like a hungry monster, and you’re staring at a blank screen, the cursor blinking like an evil eye, mocking your lack of progress. Panic starts to set in. You consider ...

Caden Heiser-Cerrato ’26 spent high school steeped in stories. He founded a creative writing club, hosted flash fiction contests, and wrote pages upon pages of stories and poems. He loved writing — ...

Each year, CBC Books asks students to give us a glimpse of the great Canadian novel of the future for the First Page student writing challenge. Students are challenged to write the first page of a ...

Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. July 18, 2025 When I first told ChatGPT who I was, it sent a gushing reply: “Oh wow — it ...

Basil Sylvester is a non-binary middle-grade writer. They are the co-author of The Fabulous Zed Watson and the recently published second book in the series, Night of the Living Zed. In 2021, The ...

Our Creative Writing program, one of the first of its kind in Canada, immerses you in every aspect of the writing life, from the development of ideas to the publication of finished works. As a ...

It has been said that poetry “is the sound of language organized in lines,” (James Longenbach) and we might aspire to put “the best words in the best order,” (Samuel Coleridge) but poetry is also a ...

DID you enjoy the article last week? I’m sure you did! Now, again, I share with you further tips on creative writing. Recall that I last reminded you about the need to silence that inner critic, talk ...