Article Archive: Special Section

After experiencing a writers group that only delivered praise, the author realizes the value of constructive feedback and offers guidance on how best to give it.

The novelist and teacher offers advice on starting a writers group where your creative work can thrive.

The author’s failed attempts to find a writers group eventually lead her to build one of her own that offers the right mix of rigor and support.

The novelist and essayist shares her experience creating a virtual writers group focused on play, and muses on the meaning of productivity and artistic friendship during the pandemic.

The author considers how race is discussed in MFA versus literature PhD programs and argues that the MFA—and the literary culture and community it props up—is due for a reevaluation.

Artist Diane Samuels turns works of literature inside out in a dramatic process of creative rewriting that highlights the intimate relationship between writer and reader in a painstaking homage to the ultimate act of creativity: writing.

Why do you want an MFA? Important questions to ask yourself before you apply.