When I wrote my first play "Crazy for Life," I had no idea what I was doing. Seriously. I had acted before but never written a one-person show, particularly one about my own experience living with ...

Writers like myself are a ubiquitous lot, as a visit to any Starbucks makes clear, but my experience suggests that non-writers know relatively little about the profession. Indeed, while many Americans ...

Have you ever sat with your grandparents or elderly relatives, listening to their stories and wishing you could capture every detail? Maybe you’ve wondered how to preserve your own journey for the ...

From the beginning of recorded history, people in diverse cultures have embraced the idea that creative expression, including visual art, stories, dance and music, contributes to healing. In recent ...

A recent project to encourage South Australian prisoners to write provides insights into how prisoners may benefit from written expression. The project, Life Sentences, gave more than 70 contributors ...

The tradition of love letters is deeply embedded in classical Indian mythology and epics. The oldest recorded love letter can be found in the Bhagavata Purana. Princess Rukmini of Vidarbha sent a ...