Founded in 1947, the Writing Seminars is the second-oldest creative writing program in the United States and has always been ranked highly in the field. The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
Study at one of the first major academic institutions to offer a degree for writers.
Four poets and four fiction writers are admitted annually to this selective two-year program.
The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
A new exhibition at the Homewood Museum features the work of students in Prof. Dora Malech’s First-Year Seminar course, “Bringing the Past to Life with Poetry.” The class, a collaboration […]
The Mighty Red, the newest novel by Louise Erdrich (MA ’79), was selected as the Today show’s October book club pick. Erdrich appeared on the program to answer questions from […]
The poems of six graduates of the Writing Seminars’ MFA program have been included in this year’s volume of The Best American Poetry. Poems by Christopher Childers, Armen Davoudian, Gabriella […]