Sarah Dalton writes young adult novels. She’s earned a following among fans of YA genre fiction with such speculative series as Blemished, Mary Hades, and White Hart. Dalton’s big break, however, came ...

The issue collects essays from the SCE’s “Cultures of Writing” project, initiated in 1997. The project developed in reaction to and has been catalyzed by ongoing discussions of the “crisis” in English ...

Barbara Kingsolver discusses crossing genres of writing and her second book of poetry, “How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons).” A celebrated novelist and essayist, she says that writing is writing ...

Writing in science -- Science writing as story telling -- Making a story sticky -- Story structure -- The opening -- The funnel : connecting O and C -- The challenge -- The action -- The resolution -- ...

Any genre of writing becomes a record and a testimony. The film *Shall We Dance* includes this line: “We need witnesses to our lives. There are countless people in the world, but what meaning does a ...