For the last 30 years or so the rise of creative writing programmes in universities has been met with seemingly unending howls of derision from all quarters. Hanif Kureishi, novelist, screenwriter – ...

After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you ...

IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...

Like many creative-writing instructors, for most of my teaching career I’ve led classes based on the workshop model: a student brings in a draft, and we talk about how to make it better. When ...

I started teaching creative writing in 2017, and all this while I’ve been grappling with something that, until now, I couldn’t quite name. I felt it when I opened a textbook that purported to teach me ...

The Teaching Creative Writing Minor is a cross-disciplinary 16- credit minor for students from across the Institute. In addition to the required teaching courses, students will choose from elective ...

One of America’s greatest living writers also happens to be one of the country’s longest-running teachers of creative writing. I’m talking about Joyce Carol Oates, author of more than 50 novels, whose ...

The year is 2003. I am a newly minted assistant professor recruited primarily to teach communicative English to undergraduate techie students and to humanise them via that odd elective course in ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...