Writing a story in exactly 101 words is no small feat. But wow. This year's entries for our annual Fiction 101 contest were mind blowing. Or, in the words of one of my colleague's, they were the bomb ...

While many luxuriate in reading verbose tomes that could make a doorstop cower (looking at you, Stephen King readers), writing short is a talent unto itself. Being able to write a story in brief takes ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

Fiction writing builds the scenario-planning muscles AI can't replicate. A novelist's research discipline outperforms a slide deck's worth of analysis. Creative imagination is a strategic asset — not ...