Whether writing for personal satisfaction, professional goals, or to contribute to social conversations, engaging with ...

Poets and authors are turning scientific studies into creative writing projects a new book by the University of Minnesota Press. Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation.

Writing this sentence was hard. There were so many other things I could have gone with. That set of words seemed right at the time, roughly 90 seconds ago. Now I’m not so sure. Joan Didion once said ...

Dream of becoming a writer? Consider adding a creative writing minor to your degree. The creative writing program at the University of Wyoming teaches students how to create original work in ...

In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modeling language in terms of the probability of the next word in a sentence given the previous words. These types of probabilistic ...

Did you know April is National Poetry Month? If you're a student looking for a creative outlet, consider trying your hand at poetry—or another form of writing—as a member of Writers Writing Words. A ...

This year, about 20,000 people applied to study creative writing at MFA programs in the U.S. It’s a funny fact to consider, given that the idea creativity could be taught used to be widely mocked—the ...

We’re social beings. We tweet. We blog. We post status updates. Send emails that describe and shape descriptions of our day-to-day life for friends, family, and colleagues. We turn in papers and lab ...