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 ...

Samantha Kelly is a freelance writer with a focus on consumer technology, AI, social media, Big Tech, emerging trends and how they impact our everyday lives. Her work has been featured on CNN, NBC, ...

Watch out, fiction writers. OpenAI may have you in its crosshairs. In a post on X on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company has trained a “new model” that’s “really good” at creative ...

In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answers. It was creative.

The MFA in Creative Writing challenges students to write in a variety of genres and to study literature from the point of view of a working writer. Recent graduates have become not only published ...

Recently, I updated my version of Microsoft Word, the word processor I’ve been using since middle school, and discovered a little colorful icon now appears beside the familiar cursor. This icon ...

In 1950, William Faulkner delivered a famous acceptance speech for the Nobel prize in literature in which he rallied for the “inexhaustible [human] voice” and his belief in its supremacy – not merely ...

The New School has been a vital center for creative writing since 1927, when we offered the first academic creative writing workshop. Since then, we have continued to develop creative writing—in the ...

As a creative, you might feel torn when deciding where to take your career. Although you might opt for the freedom of making and selling your work yourself, there are also benefits to choosing a more ...

Over the past year, we have been working closely with colleagues here at Boston College to develop a psychologically rich, humanities-informed Creative Writing Master’s Program oriented toward ...

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

The discourse around climate change can lead to anxiety, detachment or resignation because it often stretches language in ways that make the world feel distant. Global averages and abstract ...