writing

Willy Vlautin grew up in Reno. And he chose it as the setting for his first novel, The Motel Life, about two down-and-out brothers who share a profound…

Oksana Marafioti was 15 when her family moved to Hollywood. She’d grown up in Russia, touring with the family’s band of gypsies across the Siberian…

"I want you to feel what I felt." That's what Tim O'Brien wrote about the Vietnam War. The veteran wrote a number of stories about his war experiences,…

Click the photos to hear poets reading their work.Harry FagelKari O'ConnorIda Marie CollinsKeith Brantley There are poets, and then there are spoken-word…

Click the photos to hear poets reading their work.Harry FagelKari O'ConnorIda Marie CollinsKeith Brantley There are poets, and then there are spoken-word…

Joshua Kryah is a contemporary poet in Las Vegas. But his poems "would be just as at home in the mouth of a monk in medieval France, a Brazilian…

Writing a memoir can be a raw, very personal process. What does it take to crack open your own life and examine your own family tree? Does everyone have a…

The Nevada Office of Veterans Services and CSN have just launched the Veterans Writing Project. The project will offer classes for combat veterans to…