For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

Every morning, after I’ve secured the intravenous drip from the coffee pot into my arm, I knock out a couple of hours of fiction writing. That’s not exactly surprising as I’m a science-fiction author ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books, including the National Book Award finalist, “The Giant’s House.” She’s been on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and holds the James A.

Our workshops introduce you to the craft of writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Over the course of a semester, you will learn ways of shaping stories and poems through various exercises ...

This week’s story, “ Deal-Breaker ,” will appear in your new collection, “ This Is Not About Us ,” which comes out in ...

Fiction writers in the MFA program work with nationally and internationally known authors including Lidia Yuknavitch, Alan Heathcock, Peter Mountford and Brendan Basham. Our emphasis is on helping you ...