Each author leads weekly after-school creative-writing workshops for up to sixteen students.

At this stage of American literature, the notion that any reader could be made to care about any story set in a creative-writing workshop is preposterous, but against all odds, Egan makes it happen.

At 70, she took a creative-writing workshop at North Island College and started setting down her life story.

Today, short stories still have a pedagogic use - it's a form, after all, ideally suited to the creative-writing workshop.

The setting is a creative-writing workshop on the verge of becoming a confrontation of temperaments and ideologies.

Prose, who brilliantly satirized creative-writing workshops in her novel "Blue Angel," explains how close reading - savoring books rather than racing through them - informs good writing.

It had been her mother's idea that she should go to a creative-writing workshop.

Financed by Grants and Donations Because the students in the creative-writing workshop are homeless, Ms. DiPietro insisted on anonymity for them.

After each show, several children in the audience will meet for a creative-writing workshop.

Short story about a man whose wife takes a creative-writing workshop.