Four grade schoolers from Oak Park were among winners of the 2024 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, a statewide contest.

There’s no better way to build an audience than writing online. Creating the habit of showing up and hitting publish will serve you well for everything in your professional future. But there’s ...

Welcome to the Sheffield Review, the University of Sheffield's School of English online creative writing magazine, a literary journal where students can read and publish innovative poetry, fiction, ...

Ever heard the saying “the best writers are readers”? The first step to writing a poem is figuring out what you like about ...

Amanda Gorman, the country's first national youth poet laureate, will hit the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night to perform a brand-new poem in support of Vice ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Center for Writing will host Moving Stills: Film and Poetry on Friday, Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. The event is free and includes a presentation of 12 short films and readings of ...

The New School offered the first academic creative writing workshop in 1931 and pioneered a new philosophy of education. The idea: Students would make their own lives and their own stories part of ...

Award-winning author Morgan Christie discusses the process of drawing inspiration from poetry to write a picture book.

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

Take Blues, Country, Punk, and many types of Folk, there are accepted forms and chord progressions around which you can base ...