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We are storytellers from a long way back. And we will be heard for generations to come.James Welch

Creative Writing

The Creative Writing Program offers workshop courses in fiction and poetry writing, and sponsors an academic-year reading series.

Faculty
Alice Fulton
Phyllis Janowitz
Michael Koch
J. Robert Lennon
Ken McClane
Maureen McCoy
Robert Morgan
Ernesto Quiñonez
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Stephanie Vaughn
Helena Maria Viramontes
Emeritus
Anthony Caputi
Lamar Herrin
Alison Lurie
Dan McCall
James McConkey
Edgar Rosenberg

writers greetingMore than 500 undergraduates enroll in the program’s courses annually, many from schools outside the College of Arts and Sciences. English majors may concentrate in creative writing. Classes open to undergraduates from throughout the university are Creative Writing 280-281, Narrative Writing, Verse Writing, and the Senior Writing Seminar. The graduate-level program offers the M.F.A. degree. During the academic year, the Creative Writing Program sponsors poetry readings by distinguished guest writers and writers-in-residence. Students at all levels may participate in the open reading series “The Lounge Hour Reading Series.” A reading by graduating MFA. students is held in the spring. Readings and receptions are free and open to all. In the summer, An Art studio and Creative Writing workshop is held in Rome, Italy. The award-winning national literary journal Epoch is published by the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program.