A group of six Creative Writing grad students

Creative Writing Program

Immersing students in contemporary and historical literature, giving them space to create within and across genres as part of a vibrant urban arts community.

Creative Writing grad students

MFA

Recent News

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Professors Ganeshananthan and Todd Promoted

Creative Writing professors recognized for publications, teaching, and service.

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New Novels From New Faculty

Aamina Ahmad and Megan Giddings join English this fall as professors of fiction writing; both have new novels out this year.

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Douglas Kearney Awarded Griffin International Poetry Prize

The professor's poetry collection Sho is "the crowning achievement of Kearney’s body of work to date," according to the judges' citation.

Upcoming Events

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October 06, 2022

Melissa Febos Reading

The Creative Writing Program presents the author of Girlhood reading and discussing her nonfiction.

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October 07, 2022

Granta Presents Best Young Spanish Language Novelists!

Writers featured in Granta's new Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists read and talk about contemporary Spanish literature with the anthology's guest editor.

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October 19, 2022

Brown Bag Series: Writing for and Editing Anthologies

MFA students: Come learn from and chat with Erin Sharkey!

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October 19, 2022

Joy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier: Poems in Conversation

The US Poet Laureate reads and talks with the author of WHEREAS, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

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October 26, 2022

Brown Bag Series: All About Artist Residencies

MFA students, take this chance to learn about residencies with Liz Engelman.