When I first taught personal narrative in my freshmen Literature and Writing course last year I planned a traditional unit. I practiced descriptive writing techniques by having them listen to the ...

Warning: This feature contains a minor spoiler for The Last of Us: Left Behind. Writing can make or break a game. It takes many forms - from dialogue to in-game literature, voiceovers or even scripted ...

I think I fell in love with journalism then because of the ability to really experience life through other people’s eyes and ...

As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...

I should have had a ready answer at my fingertips (but it was early in the morning and I hadn’t opened my can of Red Bull). I mumbled something about an attempt to impose order on the chaos of the ...

Writing a book can reshape identity and self-understanding by forcing people to organize their experiences and ideas into a meaningful narrative.

Storytelling saved my sanity during the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown afforded me time to write and share stories about my life and career. I wasn't writing my memoir as much as I was engaged in ...