Creative Writing Wheaton College Massachusetts

12/28/2024

🔥Introducing the River Teeth Revisited column!🔥

We’re starting a new online feature called River Teeth Revisited where guest writers will choose essays they love from the River Teeth or Beautiful Things archives, think about particular elements and strategies the writers use to transform real life into essays that speak to the core of the human experience, and provide the gift of a writing prompt at the end.

Click the link below to read the new page front. Editor Jill Christman reflects on how the River Teeth Revisited column was born, what it means to her and her students, and how you can use River Teeth in your own classroom.💡📝

📖Check out the new page here: https://riverteethjournal.com/features/river-teeth-revisited/

04/17/2022

Excellent

Paragraphs are medium-sized units of writing, longer than sentences, but shorter than sections, chapters, or entire…

03/29/2022

Please join us in celebrating the life and scholarship of Professor Beverly Clark, In Memoriam.
When: Apr 2, 2022 08:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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06/23/2021

Happy summer!

On this day in 1947, the groundbreaking writer Octavia E. Butler was born in Pasadena, California. At age 48, Butler was the first sci-fi writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. Butler’s …

05/22/2021

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

04/27/2021

A graphic memoir about writing family secrets with grudging family support

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…

03/07/2021

Nice!

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

03/04/2021

Very interesting!

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…

02/24/2021

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

Priyanka Champaneri, author of "The City of Good Death," recommends plots that center on the rumor mill