Welcome to Teacher’s live chat. I’m Rich Shea, executive editor of the magazine, and today we’re chatting with Paul Watkins, author of eight novels and two memoirs and teacher of history and creative ...

Award-winning local novelist Katrina Kittle will explore the many facets of fiction-writing in two classes beginning in early January. The Craft of Fiction class will begin Jan. 4 and will focus on ...

Margaret Atwood thinks anyone can write good fiction — if they have the right motivation. Whether just anyone can write like Atwood, though, or have the same level of success she’s enjoyed over her ...

Science-fiction television shows, despite their strangeness -- or perhaps because of it -- can help teach valuable lessons about society, writes Walter R. Jacobs III, a professor of social science at ...

Science fiction is, by its very nature, a dangerous and subversive sport. Few people take it very seriously—yet how can we not? Alvin Toffler writes in Future Shock, "Our children should be studying ...

The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, ...

A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class. In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos ...

A machine is trained to write deceptively humanlike poetry. Children learn mostly passively, through mechanical devices. Genius is defined as identifying the right questions to ask an all-knowing ...

A skilled fiction writer can take a reader into an unfamiliar mind. I can’t speak for everyone who reads fiction, but many of us who love reading want to explore minds — and through them, worlds — ...

A skilled fiction writer can take a reader into an unfamiliar mind. I can’t speak for everyone who reads fiction, but many of us who love reading want to explore minds — and through them, worlds — ...