Not quite the great American novel. Has anyone ever said to you “You should write a book” or “That would make a great book?” “Maybe someday” is generally the response people give. Writing, especially ...

Books about writing are a genre all their own, but books on how to write well almost exclusively default to the perspective of the white and cisgender experience of making books. The most popular and ...

Dean Nelson interviewing George Plimpton at the 2000 Writer’s Symposium by the Sea. (Photo courtesy of PLNU) Dean Nelson, the founder and director of Point Loma Nazarene University’s journalism ...

Four award-winning poets and authors will discuss their most recent work from SUNY Cortland’s Hoxie Gorge Review during a virtual panel discussion on Thursday, April 1. Presented by the English ...

The Illinois-born Seattle-based novelist, literary scholar and cartoonist Charles Johnson is the author of the novels Faith and the Good Thing (1974), Oxherding Tale (1982), Dreamer (1998) and Middle ...

Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images On writing, author David Sedaris once said, “You need to do the best that you can do, and then you need to take the best that you can do and ...

Editor’s note: This book review of Paul Horgan’s Approaches to Writing in the Jan. 26, 1974 issue of America was one of many contributions Walker Percy made to America over the years. Though less well ...

The Writing Resource Center (WRC) is a community of practice where students can come together to develop their writing skills and work on the shared craft of writing. Writing is a craft that can be ...

Spoiler alert: there's nothing in there. There’s even a technological counterattack, as companies roll out technology designed to detect software-composed writing. But the bottom line is that ChatGPT ...