Creative Writing
The Creative Writing Program offers workshop courses in fiction and poetry writing, and sponsors an academic-year reading series.
- Faculty
- Alice Fulton
- Ishion Hutchinson
- Michael Koch
- J. Robert Lennon
- Joanie Mackowski
- Robert Morgan
- Ernesto Quiñonez
- Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
- Stephanie Vaughn
- Helena Maria Viramontes
- Emeritus
- Lamar Herrin
- Alison Lurie
- Maureen McCoy
- Ken McClane
- James McConkey
- Edgar Rosenberg
More 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; other majors may pursue a minor in creative writing. Classes open to undergraduates throughout the university are Introduction to Creative Writing (ENGL 2800-2810), Intermediate Narrative Writing (ENGL 3820-3830), Intermediate Verse Writing (ENGL 3840-3850), and Advanced Creative Writing (ENGL 4800-4810). The Program also offers an MFA degree. During the academic year, the Creative Writing Program presents the Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series. MFA graduate students organize the First-Year MFA Reading Series, and graduating MFA students hold a reading of their works in the spring. Readings and receptions are free and open to all. In the summer, Imagining Rome: Art Studio and Creative Writing Workshop is held in Italy. The award-winning national literary journal Epoch is published by the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program.