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First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work,...

Last year, I put together this list of the most iconic poems in the English language; it’s high time to do the same for short stories. But before we go...

A conversational AI created by Google is writing fiction using input from published authors, the tech giant announced Wednesday at a Google AI event in New York. Thirteen writers used...

In one, “Boys Go to Jupiter,” a college student named Claire becomes a lightning rod — scorned by Black students, supported by the campus libertarian group — when a photo...

Lisa Moore is a Newfoundland-based writer. Her books include February, which won Canada Reads 2013 when it was defended by Trent McClellan, the YA novel Flannery and Caught, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2013 and was...

Rachel King is the author of the novel “People Along the Sand,” the linked short story collection “Bratwurst Haven” and two poetry chapbooks. After residing in the eastern United States...

There is nothing in the world quite like a mother’s love. With Mother’s Day coming up on Sunday, May 12, you may be in the mood for some heartwarming stories...

When I took this assignment three years ago, moving my column to the top of Page A2 and writing six times a week instead of once, my editors told me I...

Assistive technology is designed to make hard, or seemingly impossible, tasks doable. For students with disabilities, writing can be the hardest task of all. Since difficulties in writing are wide-ranging...