creative writing

Jan 26, 2011

Use Your Poetic License

Forget a penny for your thoughts. How about $500 for your poetry? That's the grand prize in the Creative Writing Program's annual poetry contest. 

Mar 23, 2010

One Hot Read

Elisa Lorello discovered a novel way to ignite sales of her books: e-publishing on Kindle. After self-publishing (in the traditional sense) to little fanfare, Lorello - who teaches writing to first-year students in the university's Department of English - headed to Amazon.com and soon found her work on the best-seller list. 

Feb 11, 2010

Good Ol’ Girls

Creative writing Professor Jill McCorkle's stories of feisty Southern women come to the stage as part of the Off-Broadway production of "Good Ol' Girls." 

Mar 19, 2009

Rough Draft

How an angry, disaffected dropout became one of the most promising young writers in the United States.