: How do I keep up with current written English language? I am a speaker of English as a foreign language. I appreciate that English is a living language and that different regions in the world

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Since I see you are interested in creative writing, perhaps you should check out websites or blogs that encourage users to submit their own short stories as a way to see what new styles and phrases are being used. You can easily search for "creative writing blogs" on Google and shop around until you find some that you like.

Also, there are websites that will provide you with a writing prompt every so often; some every day, some every month, etc. Just reading the prompts can be a good way to keep up with popular themes and modern sayings without having to dedicate a lot of time to reading stories you aren't necessarily interested in.

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You can find urbandictionary.com useful. Probably that's the only adequate source of evolving English language available.

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I enjoy reading Michael Quinion's World Wide Words e-mail newsletter. Quinion works on the Oxford English Dictionary and has written a number of popular books on English besides. The newsletter ranges widely through the various dialects of English and often covers archaic, newly minted, and regional words. Often he tracks down the origin of an idiom, which he always documents authoritatively when possible.

I can't really imagine being interested in English (or writing in the language) without subscribing to World Wide Words.

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It doesn't look like you are on english.stackexchange.com yet! In fact, you could very well have asked this question there for better response.

I find forums such as these one of the best ways for 'Continuing Education', i.e., keeping up to date.

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Read.
Read more.
Listen.
Listen more.

Luckily, there is no one place to suggest as an answer. If there was- the language would be dying.

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If you want to keep up with written English, read newspapers and magazines (preferably weekly, but also monthly).

Newspapers, meant to be daily, cover news, politics, opinions, business, human interest, tech, medicine, sports, and entertainment (among many other subjects). New terms can enter from any angle.

Magazines can either be weekly or monthly. Weekly magazines will be a little fresher with their use of slang; monthly magazines are usually more niche-oriented and will be heavier with jargon from a particular industry or hobby. If some phrase has reached a monthly magazine, it's more likely to be entrenched in the lexicon, since publication lead time is two to three months.

Most periodicals have websites where some or all of their content is reproduced.

Entertainment periodicals will have more creative writing than news outlets, but you can find creative writing in the opinion sections as well. Monthly magazines can have a fiction component.

Just off the top of my head, I can suggest (note that this does not imply endorsement of content):

The New York Times
The Los Angeles Times
The Washington Post
The Chicago Tribune
Entertainment Weekly
Newsweek
Time
The New Yorker
The Atlantic

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