NEIU Creative Writing

The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic craft book of lectures and essays on writing by Richard Hugo, and on viewing images, teen life, and fictional memoirs. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN

A Reclaiming and a Reckoning: A Conversation with Diana Whitney - The Rumpus “So what do we do with the rage? We can make meaning from it. We can shape it into some form where it’s manageable, whether that’s a form on the page in a poem, whether it’s a story we can tell, whether it’s an essay or a longer book. And I think if you’re an artist, that’s a pretty ef...

The Sisters of Song, Myth, Poetry, Prayer: A Conversation with Maya Salameh - The Rumpus “I think the places in this book (especially Damascus and San Diego) are reconstituted in that they are mangled in my recitation of them, and I allow them their mangledness. By insisting on the presence of Arabic on the page, minute as it might be, I attempt to represent the experience of being ra...

An Interview with Amanda Rizkalla Amanda Rizkalla, a recent Steinbeck Fellow and Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow, is the author of Hungered, her debut novel published

Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Here are my terrors: First, monsters. Mostly the deep ocean variety, unfathomable, unseeable, likely lurking beneath me as…