For a vast number of book writers, artificial intelligence is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this ...

Fan fiction — the creation of unsanctioned, unofficially published, new works usually based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. There are the legal issues — copyright laws ...

The University of Iowa is renowned for its excellent writing program, churning out countless award-winning novelists, nonfiction authors, and playwrights from the writers’ workshop. But fan fiction ...

As a short-fiction writer, Lethem was at his strongest — his most limber, lucid, inventive and wise — for around a decade starting in the early to mid-2000s, roughly his 40s. Moving away from straight ...

This past film season, a number of screenwriters played close to home, creating or adapting writer characters for their movies. In “Anatomy of a Fall,” “American Fiction,” “Past Lives,” “All of Us ...

Even if you don't read romance novels, you probably think you know romance novels. From the Harlequin books of the 1980s through the bodice-rippers prominently featuring Fabio (or Fabio-adjacent) ...

For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names – Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no ...

I’m reading other worlds. In one story a city is planted from seeds—buildings, people, and animals sprout like daffodils. In another, a mother and daughter clash over the fate of their planet. In ...

Five Canadian writers have made the shortlist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

AWARD-WINNING fiction writer, author, essayist, and editor Greg Brillantes passed away at the age of 92 on Friday morning. “My Tito Greg, Gregorio Concepción Brillantes, passed away at 7:24 in the ...

Fiction and nonfiction writers pursuing copyright infringement claims against ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Microsoft filed a consolidated complaint in the Southern District of New York on Friday, ...