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.

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 These include the uncovering of W.E.B. DuBois’s papers and unpublished fantasy story, “The Princess Steel,” from Britt Rusert and Adrienne Brown, and re-readings of George Schuyler’s Black No More and Black Empire.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.

Vol. 31, no. 1 (1985) through current issue in Project Muse

The Society for Novel Studies (SNS) exists to further the study of the novel as a genre and to examine the role of fiction in engaging, formulating, and shaping the world.

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.