Creative Writing

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AWP provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 550 college and university creative writing programs, and 150 writers’ conferences and centers. Our mission is to amplify the voices of writers and the academic programs and organizations that serve them while championing diversity and excellence in creative writing.

The Center for the Study of the Novel promotes conversation on the novel and related narrative genres as these forms have been practiced across history and cultures. CSN is committed to the importance of studying literature as a primary form of human expression, even as it examines what interdisciplinary perspectives may tell us about literature and the novel in particular. CSN further is committed to studying the history and practice of literary criticism and theory illuminating the novel and its relations to society and culture.

Historically, the voices of Black diasporic women in speculative fiction and science fiction have often gone unrecognized and not given their just due. Despite this omission, their voices and stories have undoubtedly challenged past and present political and social climates, while transforming the way we understand and reimagine the bodies of Black women. Literature, particularly speculative fiction, has been a space to call home for many Black women writers like Octavia Butler, LA Banks, Tananarive Due, and Nnedi Okorafor to tell their stories while paving new pathways of Black and diasporic imagination. In recent years, Black speculative fiction has made some exciting strides. These include the uncovering of W.E.B. DuBois’s papers and unpublished fantasy story, “The Princess Steel,” from Britt Rusert and Adrienne Brown, and re-readings of George Schuyler’s Black No More and Black Empire. However, it is now time to bring focus and attention to the works of Black women speculative writers and their subjects. Bodyminds Reimagined becomes the discovery that celebrates these writers and subjects, while challenging the status quo within speculative fiction and (dis)ability studies, and moves them from marginalized objects to realist representations.

Welcome to our specialty section for fiction writing! Here you'll find links to fiction markets, resources for fiction writers, research resources, articles and more.