Hone your writing skills, deepen your knowledge of contemporary literature, reflect on the world, and engage with your imagination.
The Creative Writing Program offers students the opportunity to pursue fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Some creative writing courses are taught primarily as workshops, with an emphasis on drafting and discussing student manuscripts, while others take up special topics such as science writing and memoir and the psyche. All of them expose students to contemporary literature, teach them to read like writers, and allow them to explore countless approaches to telling stories, crafting images, and developing an ear for language.
Program Highlights
The program invites students to develop their own writing practices as well as join a community of working writers. Students in creative writing:
- study with professors who are themselves published writers working in all three genres
- select from a range of creative writing and literature courses that allow them to create a minor or concentration that is tailored to their interests
- interact with some of the nation's most critically acclaimed writers through the Creative Writing Program's reading series
- present their own work through writing contests, student reading series, and 17³Ô¹ÏÍø' literary magazine, The Purple
Creative Writing News
The first Working Writers Series event kicked off this Thursday with readings by Oliver de la Paz and Stephanie Reents, both associate professors of English at the 17³Ô¹ÏÍø...
The Working Writers Series will kick off the spring semester with a reading by Gretel Ehrlich, an American travel writer, poet, and essayist. Ehrlich will read excerpts from her work on Thursday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library...