"So, if you have found something that brings you meaning—whether a hobby, a cause, a learning experience or a creative endeavor—but fear that life's constraints will hold you back from engaging in it, ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

In general, when we write, it's with the hope of being read. In the physical world, the barriers to getting published are relatively high, but on the Internet, it's within everyone's reach. Let's take ...

Book signings have unfolded at bookstores and libraries since the days of Hemingway, with a popularity rooted in the opportunity they offer for attendees to talk to an author. The Geneva Public ...

This is a subscriber-exclusive edition of I Have Notes, a newsletter in which I share essays, interviews, advice, and writing discussions. I’ve been thinking about the often subtle shift that occurs ...

Most of us think of writing as a means of communication — whether we’re sending a text, crafting a memo, or penning a novel to convey our feelings and ideas to others. And that definitely is a hugely ...

In a sun-lit library at Shortridge High School one cold October afternoon, high school sophomore Ace Butler is weaving a poem about what happens to your soul when you're dreaming, how dreams are a ...