New Year's Eve sparkles with promise as the clock strikes 12 at midnight, and suddenly, the slate feels clean. It's the ...

Contrary to our romanticized notions, writers don’t just sit around all day, drink coffee and Scotch, and wait for inspiration to strike. Like any other job, they have to be disciplined and productive ...

IOWA CITY, Ia. — Claire Lombardo enters an upstairs classroom of an old house on the banks of the Iowa River on the University of Iowa campus and plops down brownies and a copy of her 48-page short ...