List of the most popular authors from China, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries authors have been among the world's most ...
I went to a well respected technical college, which no one has ever heard of outside of academics because we didn’t have a football team. Beyond the required English classes and one semester of technical writing, I had little experience with the English language. To this day, I consider ...
For the past few years, I’ve been privileged to teach several creative writing classes in the university where I have taught literature-and-composition since the twentieth century. I’m currently teaching an intense class in a six-week semester, and the students have to try their hands at v...
Writing for children is hard, or so I have been told. You have to write in a way that is not over their heads or below their intelligence. Adults will read a book, and if they are not a fan of the book, they will still read a bit more to see if they can salvage it to finish...
Master Classes: November 11th-14th, 2024 Conference: November 15th-17th, 2024 2024 MASTER CLASSES Revision and Improvement Nicholas Delbanco — Turning Life Into Art Meg Wolitzer Christina Baker Kline Paula McLain — Unputdownable: Techniques for crafting a page-turner ...
There are photos of me in the2012 Conference Album here. And at the most recent conference, I attended classes taught byJohn Brown,Sheralynn Pratt, andJaime Theler(among others). Now I want to know about you. Were you at Storymakers this year? What were your favorite classes?
It’s a contemporary ghost story with slivers of magic. Although it’s been suggested it might have YA cross-over potential and would appeal to upper-age teens, essentially, it’s a story for adults with adult themes. How did you come up with the title of your novel?
enjoying classes and college life. At home, I tried to find time to be with my wife, and my newborn daughter, Diane, whose birth had made me so content. After three and a half years of college with only thirty hours left to go, the government told me my college tuition money had ...
For kids, it is—they don’t think so much about the rules and what sells and what’s expected. If you’ve ever played a game with a child who was improvising the day as she went along, you’ve experienced this. For adults, I’ll wager we’re all sitting at our laptops trying ...
She runs on occasion, sweats during yoga and/or hip hop classes, writes, chases her energetic sons, travels, tries to garden, reads, regularly drafts new obituaries for herself, and eagerly seeks new adventures. Find more of her writing on her , where she strives to no more than mildly ...