Writing

A stickler for the rules, Justin Loughrey prides himself on consistently following every standard operating procedure by the letter. His...

“Use the right word.” Oakland native Lia Mezzio says her mother—an English major who taught her early on to love reading, writing...

Think about your daily life: You write texts and emails to friends, family and colleagues. You make comments and posts on Instagram,...

“I would not have applied to nor been accepted to an M.F.A. program if it weren’t for the instruction I received through the...

“Write what you know.” Every time I speak to one of our writing graduates, this is the first piece of advice I hear for someone to...

You’ve taken a creative writing course and now you have a collection of stories or a memoir or a novel. You’ve decided that being a...

Many writers dream of one day being published. Not many people aspire to call themselves an editor. Yet editing is a competitive field,...

Now in the thick of University of San Francisco's M.F.A. in Writing, post-bacc writing grad Rose Heredia reflects on the good...

Writing essays and short stories may not be on Nancy Tompkins’ career path. But it is now part of who she is.