NEIU Creative Writing

Sharing Body and Soul and the Time in Between | Interview with Danez Smith In conversation with Danez Smith on ONLY POEMS | On poetry as the primary mode of communication

Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Fiction comes from what you don’t know’ From a young age, the author was told that one of her ancestors had drawn some of the first maps of Ireland. Then she found a photograph, and embarked on a journey to discover his story

June 2026 Poem-a-Day Guest Editor Sam Sax Listen to a short Q&A where Sam Sax discusses their curatorial process for Poem-a-Day.

Yiyun Li and Édouard Louis On Writing About the Unimaginable At the 2026 World Voices Festival, Yiyun Li and Édouard Louis discussed the ways they think about facts, failure, and friendship.

These Poets Are Writing Q***r Afterlives - Electric Literature Steven Reigns and Sara Youngblood Gregory discuss generational memory, the q***r dance floor, and why certain stories must be told

Writers “Writers don’t like to write. Writers are decent writers. Writers read interviews with themselves. Writers turn off Wi-Fi. Writers are under thirty-five. Wri...

The Origin Story We Need Memphis illustrator Martha Park interviews poet Rebecca Gayle Howell about Erase Genesis, Howell’s book about faith and climate change.

In Sarah Wang’s Debut, Plastic Surgery Is More Than Skin Deep In this PEN Ten interview, Sarah Wang discusses New Skin and the immigrant body as a site of protest and desire.

Translation as Feminist Practice: An Interview with Ann Goldstein - Asymptote Blog "What you choose to translate…makes a political statement, though not necessarily a coherent one."

Jump Into the Ball Pit: Emily Rapp Black on the Creative Power of Play This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. One summer in Brooklyn I made an outline for my first book. I was told I must do this, or my ideas would be unorganized, m…