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The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of literature circles on developing EFL creative writing for secondary stage students. The study followed a pre-post experimental one group design. The participants were 40 first year secondary stage students. To achieve the aim of the study, the researchers designed a creative writing pre/ post-test to measure the students' performance in creative writing. It was administered to the participants before and after the intervention. The mean scores of the pre / post administrations of the test were treated statistically. Findings of the study revealed that there was a statistically significant difference at 0.01 in the pre- and post-assessment of EFL creative writing skills, in favor of the post-assessment. In the light of the findings, the researchers recommend the use of literature circles for developing EFL creative writing. (Published abstract)