Professor David Yezzi has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. From the Guggenheim Foundation’s announcement: “The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced their appointment of […]
Where Words Matter
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.
- Degrees Offered BA, MFA
- Major Writing Seminars
- Minor Writing Seminars
Explore the Program
Major in Writing
Study at one of the first major academic institutions to offer a degree for writers.
Master of Fine Arts
Four poets and four fiction writers are admitted annually to this selective two-year program.
Faculty
The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
News & Announcements
Poetry & Fiction from the Writing Seminars in The New Yorker
It’s been a good few weeks for the Writing Seminars in the pages of The New Yorker. This week’s issue includes “Cirrus,” a new poem by alumna Rosanna Warren from […]
Shannon Robinson’s THE ILL-FITTING SKIN Longlisted for 2025 PEN America Literary Award
Associate Teaching Professor Shannon Robinson has been named on the Longlist for the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards. Her book The Ill-Fitting Skin is up for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham […]