About a decade ago, Emily Torres, an English teacher at Joel E. Ferris High School here was at a loss. She’d been teaching for about 15 years, and she knew she was a strong instructor. But Torres felt ...

That’s when Jayden joined about 21 other students in teacher Emily Torres’ unusual creative writing class. It was part traditional English c ...

The Women’s prize for non-fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women. This prize acknowledges that while great gains have been made in ...

Writers are fed a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—which provide the security that there are rules, but little else. A new book by Lucy Ives offers a more expansive view of ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Solitude Meaning in English: Imagine a student who has been in a noisy classroom all day. When they finally get home, they go to a quiet corner of the garden to read a book all by themselves. They ...

Picture prompt writing, as Carp et al. (2010) define it, is a technique that uses visual stimuli to inspire and guide students’ writing. Picture prompts are an excellent tool for overcoming writer’s ...

In today’s post, I am focusing on 5th graders addressing their writing skill. I am shaeing a collection of carefully curated writing prompts to use with your 5th graders to hone in their writing ...

The English Department offers graduate and undergraduate certificates in creative writing. The undergraduate program is workshop-based, offering a supportive environment with peers and professors as ...

Over the past year, we have been working closely with colleagues here at Boston College to develop a psychologically rich, humanities-informed Creative Writing Master’s Program oriented toward ...