On hit shows ‘Ramy’ and ‘Mo,’ Azhar Usman adds nuance about Islam (and joy) to Hollywood
Azhar Usman. Photo by Sasha Shemirani ( Interfaith America ) — If you watch the credits roll on some recent TV shows, you’ll see one name popping up again and again: Azhar Usman. You can’t help but notice another thing these recent hits for Netflix, Hulu and Disney Plus have in common: They are shifting […]
Student wins Phi Beta Kappa award for undergraduate writing
Click here to view original web page at Student wins Phi Beta Kappa award for undergraduate writing Junior Safyque xRichardson, a double major in creative writing and psychology, won the 2022 John D. Wilson Prize for her essay “Reduction to the Black Body: Brutality in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Photo by […]
From the Stacks: Puzzles, writing meet in creative book
Click here to view original web page at From the Stacks: Puzzles, writing meet in creative bookHave you ever wondered about the process that leads to the end result of what you read? You don’t get to see what comes before: the blank page starting to fill with thoughts, words assembling into sentences, phrases snipped, […]
Submissions Are Open for the Jingkids Creative Writing Contest!
Click here to view original web page at Submissions Are Open for the Jingkids Creative Writing Contest!Here at Jingkids , we love stories; stories that make us laugh, stories that make us cry, and stories that share our unique perspectives of the world. There are so many young and powerful voices out there that we […]
Paul Levitz makes his Marvel comics writing debut with AVENGERS: WAR ACROSS TIME miniseries this January
Click here to view original web page at Paul Levitz makes his Marvel comics writing debut with AVENGERS: WAR ACROSS TIME miniseries this JanuaryAvengers War Across TIme Feature For almost four decades Paul Levitz has worked at DC Comics in a variety of roles including editor, executive and not to mention his work as a […]
Elisa Gabbert on Writing and Capturing Beginner’s Luck
Click here to view original web page at Elisa Gabbert on Writing and Capturing Beginner’s Luck“I sometimes think you should just say the thing.” The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . For a period in the late 2010s, I had the good fortune of belonging to […]
Five Writers on How Writing with Creative Constraints Unlocked Their Projects
Click here to view original web page at Five Writers on How Writing with Creative Constraints Unlocked Their ProjectsFrom Dashiel Carrera, Matthew Vollmer, Matthew Tomkinson, Julie Carr, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen I have long been an anxious writer. Every sentence written reminds me of the hundreds more that could have stood in its place, missed […]
Creative Writing and Translation Graduate Student and Alumni Receive Individual Artist Fellowships
Click here to view original web page at Creative Writing and Translation Graduate Student and Alumni Receive Individual Artist FellowshipsPhoto Submitted The Arkansas Arts Council has announced the recipients of its 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship awards, and one current graduate student and one alumni of the M.F.A. program in creative writing and translation in the […]