THE AUTHOR ARTISTE

During his recent speaking engagement at Wabash College, bestselling writer Dan Simmons recounted how Harlan Ellison changed his life at a long-ago writers workshop just when he was about to give up writing in favor of teaching full time. Ellison read his story and...
Guest Blog by Matthew Warner: NINJAS HERE

Guest Blog by Matthew Warner: NINJAS HERE

While teaching creative writing a few years ago, I told a class of seventh graders a deliberately bad “story” of how I arrived there that morning. It went like this: Mr. Warner got into his car to drive to the creative writing class. On the way, a...