Creative Writing Wheaton College Massachusetts

Congratulations to our students, who persisted under extraordinary conditions, and graduated outdoors today under a beautiful spring sky! Be great, everyone!

Saying the Unsaid: How Writing a Graphic Memoir Helped Dispel My Family’s Shame

A graphic memoir about writing family secrets with grudging family support

Saying the Unsaid: How Writing a Graphic Memoir Helped Dispel My Family’s Shame Age 19 in the summer of 2003, I got a call from my older brother that propelled me into a 17-year investigation to uncover our family’s long-held secrets. Ted said that when we were little, our mot…

We are thrilled for Megan and can't wait to get our hands on her third novel! Summer reading!!

Beyond excited to share that the first trade review for THE FAMILY PLOT is in, and it's a rave from Publishers Weekly! You can read the full review here: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781982163846

12 Great Websites for Writers

Nice!

12 Great Websites for Writers As a writer, it’s important to have a toolkit that goes beyond pen and paper. Whether you’re looking for some inspirational…

Darkest New England: What is the Northern Gothic Literary Tradition?

Very interesting!

Darkest New England: What is the Northern Gothic Literary Tradition? Darkness. Madness. Specters. Death. Add some menacing weather, a tortured anti-hero and a long-buried secret or two and you’ve got the makings of a fine old Gothic novel in the tradition of Jane Ey…

9 Novels About Gossip - Electric Literature

Another way to think about this excellent list: how to use secrets in your novel.

9 Novels About Gossip - Electric Literature Priyanka Champaneri, author of "The City of Good Death," recommends plots that center on the rumor mill

When To Use A Comma: Rules And Examples

If you like articles like this, you're going to love the new CW editing and proofreading class next spring. Stay tuned!

When To Use A Comma: Rules And Examples You may be familiar with how to use commas, but a comma can serve many purposes. Here are a few examples of when to use a comma.

Writing Mistakes Writers Make: Lack of Conflict

Participants in the fiction workshops began the semester discussing this very topic. Timely writing advice!

Writing Mistakes Writers Make: Lack of Conflict The Writer's Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week's writing mistake writers make is lacking conflict.

Why Point of View Is So Important for Novel Writers

Why Point of View Is So Important for Novel Writers The following is a brief rundown of the three most common POVs and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Join Natalie Goldberg's New Online Writing Intensive!

A great opportunity to write with a wise author. Every writer should have a copy of .

Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits

Spring 2021 workshops have started!

Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits Adapted from the essay “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits” in Essays One. * The following are just my personal pieces of advice. They won’t be the same as someone else’s, and they may …

Electric Literature

For Native American Heritage Day, we've collected poetry, memoirs, and novels by and about Indigenous writers.

Short Stories About Racism, Discrimination, Prejudice or Stereotypes

Our recommended reading this summer. Take care and enjoy the summer! http://www.shortstoryguide.com/short-stories-about-racism-discrimination-prejudice/

shortstoryguide.com Introductory summaries and links to short stories about racism, discrimination or prejudice for students or avid readers.

Prof. Bryant's summer flash fiction writing [email protected] was wonderful with students from across the Northeast and as far away as India, Singapore, and (for a while) Nigeria! Yay, for online learning! Happy summer, everyone!

Another successful senior reading! Congratulations, Cheyenne, Evan, Maya, Lily, Rebecca, Laurie, Haley, Anna, Shannon, and Erin! We've enjoyed working with you.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Annual Creative Writing Senior Reading . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Please join us tomorrow, Thursday, at 5 PM!

zoom.us Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Annual Creative Writing Senior Reading . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Fiction Workshop Remotely during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emma Hert '22 and Prof. Bryant lead discussion of Emma's short story, with Jack Baker '22, Erin Balachandran '20, Corey Campbell '22, Thomas Canfield '22, Sydney Evans '21, Morgan Gerrish '21, Olivia James '21, Austin Smith '22, and Maya Wylie '20.

Bringing the Baby Back to Life - Electric Literature

Interesting distillation of loss if this interpretation is believable

electricliterature.com Reading Frankenstein as a grieving mother

23 More Words and Phrases You No Longer Need

Giving thanks for ...

grammarly.com Have you ever struggled to make sense of a message because its author didn’t write clearly? Or maybe you wrote something that was misunderstood by…

Thanks by W. S. Merwin - Poems | Academy of American Poets

poets.org Thanks - Listen

I’d Rather Learn How to Create Than to Criticize

Food for thought that we all can use

insidehighered.com What should colleges be emphasizing to their students -- creation or criticism?

What’s the Difference Between Tone and Voice?

Good to know

grammarly.com How many times did you hear the phrase “tone and voice” in English class? You thought you didn’t need it, but now you’ve…

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100% true.

Congratulations to our graduates! They're going to do good things out there, we're sure of it. Best wishes, Izzie, Angie, Nami, Charlie, Jenny, Catherine, and Christina!

The working poor in the Hamptons: I cleaned a rich author's swimming pool while writing my own novel

Food for thought, writers!

salon.com I think about the authors in disguise all around us when I’m in a restaurant or passing by a construction site

Celebrating our graduating seniors with Visiting Artist Kathryn Kulpa. A wonderful literary festival!

Notes on My Literary Minimalism

Dear writers,

Read this.

Sincerely yours ...

lithub.com My family didn’t keep tokens or uphold rituals. We knew we were a family because of what we didn’t say. We loved each other, but objects rarely served as reminders. We moved constantly, packing and…

Alumna Megan Collins reading and signing books at the Harvard Coop last night! Congratulations, Megan Collins Hatfield! It was wonderful, watching you up there reading like a boss!

Survey: Employers Want 'Soft Skills' From Graduates

Can be found in our creative writing workshops--2 to 3 workshops each semester

insidehighered.com Employers want college graduates who have “soft skills,” such as being a good listener or thinking critically, but they have difficulty finding such candidates, according to a new report.

How college seniors can get their resumes to the top of the pack before graduation

Good advice

monster.com How do you make sure you’re one of the new grads who lands a job after college? It starts with your resume. After all, that’s the first thing prospective employers see, so to break through in today’s competitive world, it’s got to be perfect—or it’s as good as recycled. We asked college ...

The annual get-together for CW majors featured a reading of original work written by the majors in the workshops, and an American high tea, in the gallery. Nice!

Literary Hub

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"Self-discipline is enormously important—you can’t rely on inspiration or a novel would take ten years."

J.G. Ballard, born on this day in 1930, had some evergreen writing advice.

Electric Literature

Interesting

Some writing advice from Isabel Allende, c/o The Atlantic.

Welcome back, everyone! :-)

When the workshop comes for that one sentence with all the clauses.

Happy summer! We'll be back in late August.