Cracking symbols and codes, deciphering ancient texts, and uncovering millennia-old secrets are some of the mystifying feats for which fictitious archaeologists are often credited. While we can’t all ...

Writing and translating are not only about what you create but how you create it. The notion that this work is “easy” is the ...

Writing Intensive (WI) courses embrace the responsibility to prepare students for the writing tasks they will encounter as their intellectual careers at Smith unfold. Accordingly, first-year students ...

Like many creative-writing instructors, for most of my teaching career I’ve led classes based on the workshop model: a student brings in a draft, and we talk about how to make it better. When ...

The Berkeley Center of Arts will no longer accept new students for its creative writing program after this school year, ...

It’s been a while since AI began writing and creating art. I felt the end of creativity was near. If the pain of the creative process disappears, isn’t art just a fish-shaped pastry made by pouring in ...

Author Chigozie Obioma is fascinated by how people can act on opposite ends of the spectrum of human behavior. At a Thursday talk hosted through the Literary Arts Department’s “Writers on Writing” ...