This article discusses creative writing which promotes literacy and content learning in a social studies classroom. In this article, the author states, that educators must encourage students' creative energies and enable them to engage with content in new and stimulating ways. One way to help students really learn about the concepts inherent in social studies is to have them write. Educators must ask them to interact with ideas, to play with them, to explore them and to use them to generate something new, something creative. Furthermore, the author adds, that when educators integrate creative writing into their classroom, they can help students develop important literacy skills, and they can help them learn to see concepts in new and unique ways. (Contains 1 table.)