CREATIVE WRITING: Finding News Articles

Try some of these strategies to find information on living writers.

• Check for statements by your writer on social media, on blogs or websites.
• Check for interviews published in literary magazines such as Paris Review or online as a blog post, podcast, etc.
• Check for articles about your writer written by journalists or literary critics
  • Use library databases such as Nexis Uni and Literature Resource Center to get around online paywalls
• Search the library catalog for literary criticism published in scholarly articles and books.

This video shows how to use Advanced Search forms in Nexis Uni.

Skip to 2:28 to see the News advanced search in action!

Note that the important elements of this article, such as the headline and byline, are searchable in the Nexis Uni database. Here is how Nexis Uni presents these elements in search results.